P. Christian Adamski 🌐🇺🇦🇮🇱

Troubling.

I’m just saying, I don’t want judges and clerks to read my briefs and think “wow he’s so smart, he did such a brilliant job of arguing that claim.” I want them to think, “how does that bozo luck into all these cases with slam-dunk claims?”

Had the pleasure to take some time off work and attend the 2025 U.S. Go Congress in Texas. I took part in the national tournament and went 4-2 in my games.

I’m as free market as it gets, but it seems completely reasonable for the state to enter or subsidize markets that the free market cannot serve.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

“Instead of giving credit where it’s due for the most useful citation development in decades, we have invented a brand new phrase to communicate the same thing that is not as good and also is affirmatively misleading, given that the citation is not, in fact, modified.”

A thing media outlets could do to improve their credibility is to cease the practice by which the body of the article is attributed to a real person, but the headline, social media posts and push notifications linking to the article and placement of the article are all totally anonymously decided.

My rule of thumb is that if Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kagan are all on the same side, then I will agree with the opinion. This lineup may be an interesting point of discrimination.

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article) Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪

To say "let's eliminate due process for the bad guys" is to fundamentally misunderstand what due process is.

Lincoln, NE basically requires you to make an appointment beforehand which is great. I show up with the required documents, I am seen on time, and I’m out. 180 degrees difference from growing up when going to the DMV meant taking up your whole morning.

From the ghibli community on Reddit: Porco Rosso - One of my favorite scenes of all time in any Ghibli movie Explore this post and more from the ghibli community

Scene in Porco Rosso where Porco describes his vision of... heaven? hell? purgatory? something else?... and the last time he saw Berlini. You gotta remember that this is an upper-mid Ghibli film. This is what Ghibli produces as a B+ sorta day for them.

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How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?

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Opinion | My Father Was a Conservative Evangelical Pastor. Then I Came Out. (Gift Article) How did my dad go from hating homosexuality to imploding his church by embracing me? His journal entries show how he changed his mind.

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Cover of Columbia Law Review, which includes Bruhl’s Law and Equity on Appeal.

Yay, it’s here!

If you want to know about the history of federal appellate procedure and how modern practice blends the traditions of the common law and of equity, please have a read.

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YouTube video by Kawai Malaysia Spinning Globe (The Boy and The Heron) piano cover ft. Kawai K300 K500 K800 AS (Sound Demo)

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I finished my first year of piano lessons, and as a gift to myself I ordered a Kawai K-300. I hope one day, many years from now, I’ll be able to play music like this.

Twitter: leftist, liberal, centrist, and conservative, and I hope to do the same here.

I was a late joiner of Twitter, but quickly learned what an incredible place it was: subject-matter experts, breaking news, inside scoops, etc. For various reasons, I am in the process of deleting my Twitter account and will be relying on Bluesky and Mastodon. I followed a wide range of voices on

Would love to be included, thank you!

We should strive to better it. But we have an orderly system through which parties to a dispute will seek a resolution, with which they comply, win or lose. And that in itself is worth something very much. 2/2

I got a feeling yesterday as I listened to the cases before mine at oral argument. These cases involved division of marital property and a dispute over care of cows (a very midwestern case). I felt: how grand it is to have a court system. It’s not perfect. 1/2

SCOTUS cert grant on criminal law issue re confrontation clause and substitute expert testimony. Having worked on this issue before, I am excited to see how the court resolves this case.

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According to this Nebraska opinion, this rule may also be known as the "reasonable hypothesis" standard, and may have been more widespread until it was widely abandoned.

From circumstantial evidence must be taken most favorably to the defendant. This principle was known as the accused's rule, and while its history with traditional sufficiency review was messy, the principle wasn't abolished until 1995 as inconsistent with the traditional principles of suff. review.

I was annoyed with Nebraska standard of review language for sufficiency review. Language would say: the standard is the same whether the evidence is direct or circumstantial. But course it would, so why say it? Well, not so in Nebraska history I've just discovered. Used to be that inferences 1/2