Adam S. Rust

Like the Founders with the Constitution I have no idea what my posts mean until the people tell me in practice.

My pitch for Casablanca always is "It's good, it's fun, it's movies. Liking movies and not liking Casablanca is an impossibility. You are guaranteed a good time." I have never had anyone disagree after they watch it.

Four images of Vince McMahon getting more and more stimulated about the Criterion Channel's "Carlos" 1. French Biopic (interested) 2. about an international terrorist (excited) 3. Set the in 1970s (awe inspired) 4. Over 5 hours long (Laser eyes)

Me reading the description of the movie Carlos (2010) on the Criterion Channel for the first time.

Affairs of Honor (her first book) also deeply rips.

Big announcement from us: we are fully funded, we met our goal. I cannot thank everyone who supported us enough. We are putting the pedal on the gas to put out work worthy of your trust.

We have had an infinite increase since the announcement.

So glad I have the official Liberal Currents logo on my professional experience section.

I just learned a new volume of the Oxford History of the United States is dropping this year and felt others should know as well. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

On the other hand, there is no reason Congress could not implement the policies of the criminal justice dissents of the 1980s. However, Congress doesn't. One downside of venerating dissents is it obscures the power of other constitutional actors (especially Congress) to act.

This is the version of dissent reading I like and approve of. The clapback/benchslap reading I find insufferable.

Like: reducing judicial intervention in constitutional disputes.

Dislike: the judiciary hyping one branch of government over another in the process.

The Curtiss-Wright language @skennedy2504.myatproto.social draws on in his piece is a great example of unnecessary hyping of the executive.

Making fun of people gushing too much about dissents is important norm setting as well.

That having been said, maybe being less gushy about presidential authority would help things. The courts probably have a rhetorical norm setting function in this space that can be used well or poorly. Here it has been used poorly.

How the Supreme Court Enabled Trump's Unilateral War on Iran For almost a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has been incredibly solicitous of executive power in foreign affairs.

A solid history of SCOTUS on presidential military action from @skennedy2504.myatproto.social. Though I think this article actually shows courts are not well equipped to constrain executive military actions rather than showing courts enable the executive. www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-supr...

The principle is called "we have the votes and you don't," it's the principle used to determine all court cases

The Rules-Based Order Is Dead. Good. The rules-based order was a polite fiction based in a fundamental misunderstanding of contemporary geopolitics.

This is exceptionally good from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-delusion...

Fassbender: Show the downfall of the New Deal. (Picture of Clinton and Gore in 1992) Fassbender: I said downfall. (Picture of Reagan) Fassbender: Perfection. (Picture of labor's last stand to get Truman to veto the Taft-Harley Act)

Really wonder if Truman is ultimately to blame sometimes.

I learned it this morning from @jgienapp.bsky.social in his book "The Second Creation"

I'm not saying my home state's politics make sense, I am saying this how it is though.

Originalist
Living Constitutionalist
Legal Realist
Schmittian

This is good two-hander banter though. Gotta admit.

Of course! It will be playing a significant part in an article I am working on for @liberalcurrents.com

I was reading his latest ("Against Constitutional Originalism", also great) when I realized I should back up and read this first. A solid choice on my part.

Pictured: The cover of Jonathan Gienapp's "The Second Creation". Not pictured: The pages with filled with margin notes and highlighted quotes from primary sources, or great turns of phrase from Gienapp.

Hard to oversell how incredibly good @jgienapp.bsky.social's "The Second Creation" is. Just incredible, subtle, mind-altering constitutional history.

So I looked it up, what makes it even worse is what the quote is ABOUT.

Woman begging for erotic attentions while her partner, a bearded gentleman, looks at r/yimby sexually entranced by by the idea of trains and upzoning

If I recall right they rejected Johnson's nominee. Then they abolished the open seat and preemptively abolished another one over Johnson's veto! Their hatred of the executive was so pure. It was beautiful.

Pleased SCOTUS is returning to its true function — furthering the interests of the business class in a way that occasionally benefits the rest of us.

fun fact: this used to be how SCOTUS politics used to work

As an aunt you get to call him "lil man" for as long as you want. I think there is case law on this from the Auntie High Council.