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Adam S. Rust

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Practicing attorney for a legal non-profit in California. Writer and sometimes editor on legal matters for Liberal Currents. My work has also appeared in Balls and Strikes. In my downtime I read, write, watch movies, absorb cultural events, and drink coffee.

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Adam S. Rust Sep 12, 2023

Tacitus anticipating Rousseau by about 1,600 years here.

Adam S. Rust Aug 24, 2023

My face when a court hearing is about to end and my client suddenly says "I have a few things I want to say."

Adam S. Rust Aug 16, 2023

Biblical genealogies drone on and on until suddenly will throw in batshit statements like this with no explanation.

Adam S. Rust Aug 4, 2023

Opposing counsel: Great use of "shambolic" in that hearing.

Me: Well "hot shit sandwich" wasn't in keeping with the decorum of the court so...

Adam S. Rust Jul 31, 2023

Marshal Pétain's attorneys invoke the well known "sleepy boi" defense in his 1945 treason trial.

Adam S. Rust Jul 28, 2023

Post-Occupation France had so many war crimes trials that when one sold out they offered seating at alternative war crimes trials as a consolation prize.

Adam S. Rust Jul 26, 2023

Can't stop thinking about this.

Adam S. Rust Jul 23, 2023

Adam S. Rust Jul 22, 2023

Me, before going to court every morning, getting the day's laws from the sun god Shamash.