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April 04, 2025
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Art of the Day

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  • Friday at 9ish pm eastern: Betting w/ Barnes AMA
  • Saturday Movie Night at 9 pm eastern: Val Kilmer Movie TBD
  • Sunday at 6 pm eastern: Viva & Barnes, Law for the People

Book Recommendation: The VBL book list, a humble 568 of them. An example: Kevin Phillips’ biography of President McKinley, a book enjoyed by President Trump.  https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/130921670-robert-barnes?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=vivabarneslaw

Art of the Day: The effusive ebullience of jazz, the colorful spirit the saxophone sings in its inventive riffs, the chic cool of a jazz club off an alley in Paris or hidden in a cave-like basement in Gotham or enveloped by the memory of history in New Orleans amongst the young folks’ revelry. The explosion of color in the art evinces that echoed memory of jazz clubs on a warm summer night, where everybody is a cool cat. In another life, I’d be a jazz drummer.

Wisdom of the Day: "It was the stage in which they were starting to lose what had been built up by the solid things: industry and physical commerce and agriculture and maritime industries. If we look at what happened to them, it's confirming the dangers of letting yourself get into this posture of thinking that you can provide services and finance to the world and that works. It never has." Kevin Phillips. 

 

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Closing Argument: Birthright citizenship is deeply American, and wholly Constitutional.

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Weekend Barnes Brief: June 5, 2026

I. THE INTRODUCTION 

*Limited tickets available. 1776lawcenter.com 

  • A. Art of the Day
    “She’ll be riding 7 white horses when she comes, when she comes. She’ll be riding around the bend when she comes, when she comes.” So may father sang some version of his own of the famed spiritual son that used to echo off the ridges and mountains and riverbeds that make Chattanooga home as returned from our morning paper route beneath the mountains and by this famed river bend.

B. Wisdom of the Day

  • "From the hands of the mother and daughter, Through the mists of the past revealing, The herbs and the cinnamon water, Hold all the mysteries of healing." The Sorrow Songs, preceding the Blues. 

C. Appearances

D. Daily Picks

E. 1776 Conference Guest Speaker

II. THE EVIDENCE: CURATED ITEMS FROM BARNES LIBRARY

A. Cultural/Historical

B. Economical

C. Political

D. Legal

E. Global 

Bonus: Board Post

III. HOMEWORK: SUNDAY SCHOOL

  1. Bolton sweetheart deal. https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/7978416/john-bolton-receives-2-million-dollar-slap-on-the-wrist-because-he-is-a-made-man-any-podunk-sta
  2. SCOTUS: Patents & generic meds https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-889_5i36.pdf
  3. SCOTUS: SEC & Jury Trialshttps://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-466_5i26.pdf
  4. SCOTUS: FCC & Forfeiture https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-406_nmip.pdf
  5. SCOTUS: Racial Redistricting https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a1314_7m58.pdf
  6. Bricks & Minifigs https://johndoesthings2026.github.io/bricksminifigslawsuit/BAM-Franchising-Bricks-and-Minifigs-v-Benjamin-Paul-Schneider-Reckless-Ben-Bryan-Mansell-Utah-Case-260400253-Verified-Complaint.pdf
  7. Kash GF Libel Suit https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.109449/gov.uscourts.tnmd.109449.1.0.pdf
  8. Settlement Fund https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617.39.1_1.pdf
  9. Superseding SPLC Indictment https://www.cbsnews.com/news/southern-poverty-law-center-superseding-indictment/
  10. Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial https://www.courttv.com/tag/karmelo-anthony/
  11. War Powers Vote on Iran War https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13134
  12. Arkansas Justice https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-regional-news/2026-06-05/murder-charge-dismissed-against-arkansas-man-running-for-county-sheriff
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The Barnes Brief: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
I. THE INTRODUCTION
 
 
A. Art of the Day 
  • The colorful, blurry, swimming-in-the-mind sense of a jazz cafe, balanced blissfully against the cacophony of conversation in the drum beat of the street surrounding, the blending of indoors and outdoors, the real and the surreal, the deeply honest and flagrantly fake, the warm cafe amidst the cold streets, with hope still stirring amidst. 
 
B. Wisdom of the Day
  •  "Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.” George Washington. 
 
C. Appearances
 
  • LIVE w/ Baris: 
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D. Daily Picks
 
E. Guest Speaker Resume: Jim Webb
 
II. THE EVIDENCE: BARNES LIBRARY
 
A. Cultural/Historical
  • The problem w/ Mr. Beast 
 
B. Economical
  • Streaming war problems. 
 
C. Political
 
D. Legal
 
E. Geopolitical 
 
*Bonus: Board Post of Note
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The Barnes Brief, Weekend of May 29, 2026

BRIEF

I. THE INTRODUCTION
 
A. Art of the Day 
  • The Battle of Bunker Hill, by early American artist John Trumbull, a battle the British managed to lose while winning. By holding off the British as long as they did, the Americans seized the narrative and strategic victory. Legend grew of a young farmer turned Colonel of the Minute Men, promising to hold the Hill or periosh trying for at least one more night, with the famous phrase echoed: “Don’t Fire Boys Till You See the Whites of Their Eyes”, or at least legend would have it. I admit my fondness for the legend with its Sun Tsu style proverbial wisdom, but also for a more direct reason: Colonel Prescott was a great, great granddaddy of mine. 
 
B. Wisdom of the Day
  • “Don’t Fire Till You See the Whites of Their Eyes.” Colonel Prescott, according to legend. 
 
C. Appearances
 
D. Daily Picks
 
E. Guest Speaker Resume Larry Johnson
 
II. THE EVIDENCE: CURATED FROM THE BARNES LIBRARY
 
A. Cultural
 
B. Historical
 
C. Economical
 
D. Political
 
E. Legal
 
F. World
 
G. Board Post of Note
 
 
III. HOMEWORK: Sunday Cases TBD
 
  1. SCOTUS: Racial jury picks. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-7351_jiel.pdf
  2. SCOTUS: Arbitration & Interstate Commerce. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-935_k53m.pdf
  3. Waiting on SCOTUS. https://katiecouric.com/news/politics-and-policy/controversial-supreme-court-cases-predictions-2026/
  4. DOJ on Vaccine Mandate Religious Discrimination https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1015/409182/20260518162120878_Does%20CVSG_final.pdf
  5. Corporations right to vote? https://courts.delaware.gov/opinions/download.aspx?id=395960
  6. Return of racial districts. https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-congress-alabama-voting-rights-trump-b67125657b36e9b915ea9bc5d587d08c
  7. IRS Fund halted. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/floyd-v-doj-order.pdf
  8. Recusal rights. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/california-blanket-challenges-opinion.pdf
  9. Election order upheld. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nichols-rejects-DNC-pi-in-election-overhaul-eo-case.pdf
  10. 2A challenge in Virginia. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wilson-v-katz-show-cause.pdf
  11. No exculpatory no to libel. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/abadi-elfman-appeal-opinion.pdf
  12. Bondi blames Blanche. https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/2060397382022390220?s=20
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