Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
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The administration is doing its best to rewrite January 6. But the historical record of what really happened is not going away.
January 6 Still Happened
The Trump administration can pardon the insurrectionists and delete pages of evidence. But it cannot hide what took place on that day.
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The administration is doing its best to rewrite January 6. But the historical record of what really happened is not going away.
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Today is the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol.
On Lawfare Daily, @nkorpett.bsky.social sat down with @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, @qjurecic.bsky.social, and @mollyereynolds.bsky.social to discuss what Congress has done, what it hasn’t, and the legacy of Jan. 6.
On Lawfare Daily, @nkorpett.bsky.social sat down with @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, @qjurecic.bsky.social, and @mollyereynolds.bsky.social to discuss what Congress has done, what it hasn’t, and the legacy of Jan. 6.
January 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol.
On Lawfare Daily, @nkorpett.bsky.social sat down with @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, @qjurecic.bsky.social, and @mollyereynolds.bsky.social to discuss what Congress has done, what it hasn’t, and the legacy of Jan. 6.
On Lawfare Daily, @nkorpett.bsky.social sat down with @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, @qjurecic.bsky.social, and @mollyereynolds.bsky.social to discuss what Congress has done, what it hasn’t, and the legacy of Jan. 6.
Statements like “international law is gay” are why we need gender studies
right. and like it's not like they're hiding it now. all of the major pundits (knowles + walsh) basically think the takeaway from Iraq War was not that PNAC was right to want to build democracy, but a world that is explicitly built around turning America into an empire
January 6, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Statements like “international law is gay” are why we need gender studies
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Five years ago today, many people simply woke up on January 6, 2021 and went to work in and around the Capitol to serve their country in ways big and small, only to be met with violence. Their stories are many, and they are still with me.
January 6, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Five years ago today, many people simply woke up on January 6, 2021 and went to work in and around the Capitol to serve their country in ways big and small, only to be met with violence. Their stories are many, and they are still with me.
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“What J6ers rarely seem to acknowledge is the possibility that Mr. Trump’s government has failed to reveal the hidden truth about Jan. 6 because there is no hidden truth, no deep-state conspiracy, and therefore no legal reason to bring further charges related to the riot.”
For Many Jan. 6 Rioters, a Pardon From Trump Wasn’t Enough
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:20 PM
“What J6ers rarely seem to acknowledge is the possibility that Mr. Trump’s government has failed to reveal the hidden truth about Jan. 6 because there is no hidden truth, no deep-state conspiracy, and therefore no legal reason to bring further charges related to the riot.”
I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, January 6
January 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, January 6
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they're doing it for gender, imo
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
they're doing it for gender, imo
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The epitome of the Article I Crisis
Johnson, Thune say Venezuela operation didn't require prior authorization
Johnson, Thune say Venezuela operation didn't require prior authorization
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended the Trump administration Monday for not consulting Congress ahead of its operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. The administration notified the “Gang of Eight” — which includes Thune, Johnson, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)...
thehill.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:21 AM
The epitome of the Article I Crisis
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One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
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D.C. experienced a 32% drop in homicides for the second consecutive year, according to city data, with police investigating 127 homicides in 2025 compared to 187 in 2024 and 274 the year before, the deadliest year in more than two decades.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
For the second year, D.C.’s annual homicide toll declined
The decrease in 2025 came during a tumultuous year for D.C.’s police force, including a federal takeover by the Trump administration and a change in police chiefs.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM
D.C. experienced a 32% drop in homicides for the second consecutive year, according to city data, with police investigating 127 homicides in 2025 compared to 187 in 2024 and 274 the year before, the deadliest year in more than two decades.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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This is how I see it
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/t...
Trump’s Illiberal Interventionism
The president swore off building nations, not destroying them.
foreignpolicy.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
This is how I see it
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/t...
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i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
When you have introduced aesthetics into political life
Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."
January 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM
When you have introduced aesthetics into political life
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Two fun historical facts: You know who was in charge of prosecuting Manuel Noriega after OPERATION JUST CAUSE?! Robert Mueller and Bill Barr.
January 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Two fun historical facts: You know who was in charge of prosecuting Manuel Noriega after OPERATION JUST CAUSE?! Robert Mueller and Bill Barr.
my theory of Jan 6 is that nobody (except for a few weirdos) likes to think about it. from 2021-2025, the investigations/prosecutions meant that Biden was the guy who was making people think about it (which they hated). now Trump is the guy making them think about it and they also hate that
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021,” the editorial board writes. “Recognizing as much is necessary to bring this era to an end before it has many more anniversaries.”
“Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021,” the editorial board writes. “Recognizing as much is necessary to bring this era to an end before it has many more anniversaries.”
Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021.
nyti.ms
January 2, 2026 at 5:16 PM
my theory of Jan 6 is that nobody (except for a few weirdos) likes to think about it. from 2021-2025, the investigations/prosecutions meant that Biden was the guy who was making people think about it (which they hated). now Trump is the guy making them think about it and they also hate that
marty supreme was 30 minutes too long
December 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
marty supreme was 30 minutes too long
Among other things, “what is near CECOT” is an answerable question, not a fun imponderable. There is actually a lot of reporting out there about the construction process behind the prison and how it polluted the surrounding areas
“It’s the new Jeffrey Epstein jet.”
Kristi Noem “posting a fun video in front of caged, tatted men.”
Look how Bari Weiss’ The Free Press wrote about CECOT — the El Salvador megaprison Trump shipped people to — just months before she stopped the 60 Minutes segment on it:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Kristi Noem “posting a fun video in front of caged, tatted men.”
Look how Bari Weiss’ The Free Press wrote about CECOT — the El Salvador megaprison Trump shipped people to — just months before she stopped the 60 Minutes segment on it:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
December 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Among other things, “what is near CECOT” is an answerable question, not a fun imponderable. There is actually a lot of reporting out there about the construction process behind the prison and how it polluted the surrounding areas
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”
Save democracy, be cringe www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I gotta say I find a lot of the edgy anti-lib posting these days to be more banal and hackneyed than anything else. This isn't 2012, guys.
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Save democracy, be cringe www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Basically Pleasant Bureaucrat Total Cultural Victory
The main thing I have had hammered home by the past ten years in politics is that we really need pretty much every government office to be run by boring and anonymous nerds who you will never once hear about in the news
December 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Basically Pleasant Bureaucrat Total Cultural Victory
these two sentences would be verboten DEI if you read them as as referring to any other demographic
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
these two sentences would be verboten DEI if you read them as as referring to any other demographic
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In response to SSRN's removal of Professor Edwards's "The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses," I have posted "A Response to SSRN's Removal of Jerry Edwards's 'The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses'"
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![On December 11, 2025, President Donald J. Trump announced a pardon for former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters. A veritable mob of critics emerged to condemn the pardon as unlawful, illegal, not allowed, and fundamentally inconsistent with the narrowly circumscribed powers of the President to “grant pardons and reprieves for Offenses against the United States,” which clearly refers to federal offenses. 1 In response to the hullabaloo, Professor Jerry Edwards bravely “survey[ed] hundreds of years of history in the past few days” and wrote an article “assessing the originalist case.”2 Professor Edwards made the regrettable mistake of posting his article to the Social Science Research Network (“SSRN”), which concluded that his “manuscript [did] not meet the criteria for posting on SSRN” and subsequently removed it3—demonstrating yet another instance of well-documented bias against originalist legal scholarship.4 To the untrained scholar, Professor Edwards’s scholarship may have seemed like he just copied and pasted the lyrics to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”5 into a Word document, which spanned approximately a page and a half, and conducted no originalist analysis. Even if Professor Edwards did just that,6 characterizing this discussion as somehow unfitting of other works in the originalist oeuvre7 is, yet again, anti-originalist bias. In this brief essay, which was rushedly written to ensure that the whole commentariat was aware of the “entire literature that disagrees”8 with the notion that the President cannot pardon state crimes, I analyze the lyrics of “Never Gonna Give You Up.” I conclude that it has as direct, helpful, and material a bearing on originalist jurisprudence on the President’s pardon power as any leading originalist scholar could muster.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q3dycka5ce2gybcbau5gfehd/bafkreiciwxwj5gbuomhmhbkn4gncsoy5icfxwyxijxyzm5hw6q5v4xxj3y@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In response to SSRN's removal of Professor Edwards's "The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses," I have posted "A Response to SSRN's Removal of Jerry Edwards's 'The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses'"
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....