The Rule of Law Is Our Business: Thoughts on Trump's Attack on Big Law
Despite having all the resources and connections they need to fight, major law firms have abandoned their duties to the system that makes their success possible.
Adam Rust
Adam Rust is a Kansas native who now lives in San Francisco Bay Area where he practices law. His writings on law, legal culture, and politics have appeared in Liberal Currents, where he is a contributing editor, and Balls and Strikes.
The Fight Makes the Meaning: Noah Feldman, James Oakes, and the Lessons of Antislavery Constitutionalism
Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is a frequent public commenter on the state of constitutional law and the Supreme Court. Over the last few years he’s been in a rough patch. He’s written about how Trump’s conservative appointees deserve to be
Justice Breyer's Dying Dream: A Book Review and Elegy
Some day 83-year-old Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court will die. It may be tomorrow. It may be in a decade. But it will happen. The dream which animates his professional life, however, is dying before our eyes. Justice Breyer dreams that Supreme Court Justices, while
LC Podcast #4: Adam Rust on the California Gubernatorial Recall
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The Process Is the Freak Show: On the California Gubernatorial Recall
It’s easy—far too easy—to get drawn into the candidate freak show of the current California Gubernatorial Recall Race. The candidate statements in the Official Voter Information Guide contain a treasure trove of monomaniacs and narcissists with no one in their life who loved them enough to stop
How I Became an Anti-Racist
The murder of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer has once again brought the issue of systemic racism, police violence, and criminal justice reform to the forefront of the American national conversation, in print and in the streets. As part of that conversation, Liberal Currents solicited
Neither Slave Nor Free: Jemar Tisby and the Moral Limits of American Protestantism
“But is it supported by Scripture?” he asked me as we stood in the taco truck line after the church service. The “he” we’ll call Just-Asking-Questions. The “it” was the idea that the history of racial injustice in America, enabled by Protestant churches, required some sort of response in
Original Leanings: Wurman's Originalism as Judicial Activism
Law schools teach many subtleties of questionable relevance. I was in my Constitutional Law class in law school when I learned about the subtleties of Originalism. The class was discussing an affirmative action case (I don’t recall which one) in which the late Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the