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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Tacitus anticipating Rousseau by about 1,600 years here.
My face when a court hearing is about to end and my client suddenly says "I have a few things I want to say."
Biblical genealogies drone on and on until suddenly will throw in batshit statements like this with no explanation.
Marshal Pétain's attorneys invoke the well known "sleepy boi" defense in his 1945 treason trial.
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.
Can't stop thinking about this.
Me, before going to court every morning, getting the day's laws from the sun god Shamash.
POV: you are seeing me about two years ago learning there is going to be a Barbie movie.