Adam S. Rust

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Lawyer, writing on law things has appeared in Liberal Currents and Balls & Strikes, based in San Jose, CA.

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I'm sorry what.

Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 2/20 #booksky

Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 1/20 #booksky

Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 3/20 (Two in one today because I skipped yesterday.) #BookSky

"Worst person in world makes great point about the thing that makes him the worst person in the world"

Am rereading the Alexander decision and almost choked on the Alito line, "[W]e must be wary of plaintiffs who seek to transform federal courts into 'weapons of political warfare' that will deliver victories that eluded them 'in the political arena.'"

Just another day in the group chat with the boys.

Good thread.

There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

The worst part about this Trump immunity decision is reflecting that, somewhere in hell, Richard Nixon is smiling.

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Imagine what the discourse on prosecuting Trump would be like if instead of pardoning Nixon, Ford had let his DOJ prosecute him for some of the many things they could have prosecuted him for

Reading the SCOTUS Trump immunity decision and can't stop thinking maybe it's good for a president thinks "is this a crime?" before doing something. But because I respect the rule of law I silence my doubts.

5th Circuit judges finding out Chevron's been overturned

More like ChevrOFF deference amirite?

"Mr. Nixon once again refuses to debate his golf handicap gap."

Tfw I am watching democracy die.

You know the US is a country of the middle class because our two most sacred documents are a procedural manual (the Constitution) and an angry letter to management (the Declaration of Independence).

So called "Silent Cal" first president to appear in a sound film. Yet another example of why every day Americans don't trust politicians.

As a country we must return to movie titles ripping this hard.

Bay Area housing market be like "2BR, 1 Bath fixer upper close to transit, $3.5 million"

"Murder is something that should only happen in the sacred bonds of wedlock" -the MPAA, 1964

"The Neapolitan Novels are such a good exploration of female friendship," says woman unaware she is telling on herself.

Learned Ulysses S. Grant's favorite bourbon was Old Crow and definitely decided he must have a drunk full of deep self loathing.

Sure, that's the unfortunate part, Steve.

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Was at a bookstore, saw a book with the title "The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg", and this is all I could think of.

Treating ancient Roman and Greek rhetoric books as representative of their political cultures is like some future historian assuming the NYT editorial page tells them everything they need to understand 21st century US political culture.

Just learned Jack Balkin has a new book out.

Easy to be collegial when everything you debate has exactly zero personal consequence for you.

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Me: why don’t clients see how utterly fucking disruptive and useless lying to me is and how it’s against their best interests Also me: Exercise? Oh doctor thanks for asking. Six times a week. I don’t do seven because I don’t want to get too ripped

We need to stop using technology to displace people's jobs. Lying to the doctor yourself is so rewarding

"Remarkable" to any rube who still believes McConnell's words mean anything.

Let him cook!

Reading Kierkegaard is wild because he will be on a six page jag of pseudo Hegelian gibberish and I want to throw the book away. Then suddenly he has a moving five paragraph discussion the ways we can give up on claiming our self and I am like