Christian Turner
@christianturner.bsky.social
law prof, goofball
Very confusing to sort out when we’re going to murder and when we’re going to pardon people involved with cartels, random fishermen, and whole countries. Remember when…
Opinion | An Indefensible Pardon (Published 2001)
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Very confusing to sort out when we’re going to murder and when we’re going to pardon people involved with cartels, random fishermen, and whole countries. Remember when…
Moor Mother + Wooden Elephant, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes. It’s great.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Moor Mother + Wooden Elephant, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes. It’s great.
open.spotify.com/album/3KsL6E...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
open.spotify.com/album/3KsL6E...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
overcast.fm/+AAHAsqkDczQ one of the greatest musicians talking music. (One battle after another, film and music both, is on another level)
559: Jonny Greenwood On His Score For One Battle After Another — Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Jonny emails Edith on Monday to say his available to chat about his score for One Battle After Another between Radiohead duties, and we bring it to you at the first opportunity. This is a fabulous dee...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
overcast.fm/+AAHAsqkDczQ one of the greatest musicians talking music. (One battle after another, film and music both, is on another level)
The only relevant questions at the moment concern what a handful of Republican senators and reps will do in the face of increasingly outrageous violations of domestic and international law. No other takes matter.
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The only relevant questions at the moment concern what a handful of Republican senators and reps will do in the face of increasingly outrageous violations of domestic and international law. No other takes matter.
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Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.
It’s… shocking
It’s… shocking
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.
It’s… shocking
It’s… shocking
can you be considered a serious presidential candidate if you don‘t promise to demolish the ballroom on day 1?
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
can you be considered a serious presidential candidate if you don‘t promise to demolish the ballroom on day 1?
I guess they call it the emergency docket because they use it to create emergencies.
October 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I guess they call it the emergency docket because they use it to create emergencies.
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Further premeditated killing by the Trump administration.
Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.
Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.
October 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Further premeditated killing by the Trump administration.
Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.
Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.
It appears that Sec. Hegseth has admitted to murder and implicated others. It looks bad, but he and any co-conspirators deserve a fair trial with all the protections and process due under our law.
October 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It appears that Sec. Hegseth has admitted to murder and implicated others. It looks bad, but he and any co-conspirators deserve a fair trial with all the protections and process due under our law.
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Ok so this is bad but for complicated reasons. Substantively, much of it is terrible explicitly: the anti-trans stuff, the requirement to use force on student protesters, cap on foreign students, content-based "screening" of foreign students, surveillance of foreign students. But some of (cont🧵)
The Act of Capitulation that Trump is demanding that all colleges and universities are to sign surrenders authority over vast areas to Trump, as the Dear Leader. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
October 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Ok so this is bad but for complicated reasons. Substantively, much of it is terrible explicitly: the anti-trans stuff, the requirement to use force on student protesters, cap on foreign students, content-based "screening" of foreign students, surveillance of foreign students. But some of (cont🧵)
Whether a president has effectively unreviewable authority to direct the military to murder someone, in boats in the tropics or on the streets of Portland, if he says they’re a threat to the United States is becoming just another issue about which “reasonable” people can disagree.
September 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Whether a president has effectively unreviewable authority to direct the military to murder someone, in boats in the tropics or on the streets of Portland, if he says they’re a threat to the United States is becoming just another issue about which “reasonable” people can disagree.
I take it as a bad sign that “what a murderer thinks” is increasingly a topic as to which people have hopes.
September 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I take it as a bad sign that “what a murderer thinks” is increasingly a topic as to which people have hopes.
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There is so much that is terrible in what has been reported. But among them is the student’s reference to “our president’s laws.”
Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit.
archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...
archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...
archive.ph
September 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There is so much that is terrible in what has been reported. But among them is the student’s reference to “our president’s laws.”
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Not the biggest problem here by a longshot -- but this is an exercise in wasting everyone's time, imposed to bolster the proposition that this is about e̶t̶h̶i̶c̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶j̶o̶u̶r̶n̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶ course-description integrity
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Texas A&M University System orders audit of courses at all 12 universities
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents ordered an audit of courses at the system's 12 schools amid backlash over a professor’s gender identity lesson.
www.houstonchronicle.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not the biggest problem here by a longshot -- but this is an exercise in wasting everyone's time, imposed to bolster the proposition that this is about e̶t̶h̶i̶c̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶j̶o̶u̶r̶n̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶ course-description integrity
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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chng.it/v648fZ9tKW Solidarity with colleagues at Texas A&M.
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September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
chng.it/v648fZ9tKW Solidarity with colleagues at Texas A&M.
I have no idea whether this cable-news-pol is sincere. But it’s a big problem that we have so many fellow citizens that are afraid of everyone and everything all the time. Had a contractor absolutely and honestly astounded that we drove across country and backpacked without guns.
Markwayne Mullin: "I'm not joking when I say this. I drive around Washington DC in my Jeep - yes, I drive myself - & I don't buckle up. The reason I don't buckle up - people can say whatever they want - is because of carjacking. I don't want to be stuck in my vehicle when I need to exit in a hurry."
August 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I have no idea whether this cable-news-pol is sincere. But it’s a big problem that we have so many fellow citizens that are afraid of everyone and everything all the time. Had a contractor absolutely and honestly astounded that we drove across country and backpacked without guns.
If these masked federal agents fanning out across American cities under the control of the mad king even think about delivering broccoli or asking about health insurance, then — and only then — elite libertarians will rise in opposition.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says he’ll seek ‘longterm’ control of DC police and signals he’ll target other cities next
President’s comments come as White House takes credit for dozens of arrests as part of campaign to fight ‘crime crisis’ its leaders say doesn’t exist
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If these masked federal agents fanning out across American cities under the control of the mad king even think about delivering broccoli or asking about health insurance, then — and only then — elite libertarians will rise in opposition.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It’s true that there is an unprecedented wave of crimes now being committed in DC.
August 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It’s true that there is an unprecedented wave of crimes now being committed in DC.
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The point of putting the military on the streets in cities isn’t to “clean up” those cities, it’s to heighten tension in the hopes that somebody takes a shot at them and gives an excuse for invocation of the insurrection act.
Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."
August 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The point of putting the military on the streets in cities isn’t to “clean up” those cities, it’s to heighten tension in the hopes that somebody takes a shot at them and gives an excuse for invocation of the insurrection act.
“It is illegal to assist people who are not rich, because that inevitably helps racial minorities who are ‘inseparable’ from their relative poverty.”
Heckuva job American legal culture for landing in a place where arguments like this have become acceptable (again). It doesn’t have to be this way.
Heckuva job American legal culture for landing in a place where arguments like this have become acceptable (again). It doesn’t have to be this way.
I thought the press descriptions had to be at least slightly off. But they are completely accurate.
America First is literally arguing that the disparate impact of free tuition for all families making <$300K per year “masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.”
America First is literally arguing that the disparate impact of free tuition for all families making <$300K per year “masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.”
July 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“It is illegal to assist people who are not rich, because that inevitably helps racial minorities who are ‘inseparable’ from their relative poverty.”
Heckuva job American legal culture for landing in a place where arguments like this have become acceptable (again). It doesn’t have to be this way.
Heckuva job American legal culture for landing in a place where arguments like this have become acceptable (again). It doesn’t have to be this way.
Whether potus and his enablers can one day be prosecuted for war crimes is a hard question of law (content of CIL, not directly subject to ICC, content of and personal liability under other agreements, etc.), politics (sec. council veto, etc.), and fact (more justification than we know?). But...
June 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Whether potus and his enablers can one day be prosecuted for war crimes is a hard question of law (content of CIL, not directly subject to ICC, content of and personal liability under other agreements, etc.), politics (sec. council veto, etc.), and fact (more justification than we know?). But...
I get that there are issues on which I’ll disagree with others. What I don’t get is how they keep coming up with insane positions on things I would never have thought were issues. It must be someone’s full-time job to brainstorm awful, destructive proposals concerning things no one is talking about.
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I get that there are issues on which I’ll disagree with others. What I don’t get is how they keep coming up with insane positions on things I would never have thought were issues. It must be someone’s full-time job to brainstorm awful, destructive proposals concerning things no one is talking about.
The new Grok will be taught without contradiction that the hurricane was in fact heading to Alabama.
June 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The new Grok will be taught without contradiction that the hurricane was in fact heading to Alabama.
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June 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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And meant to add: every non-white litigant should demand he recuse in every case.
How can you trust a judge who AWARDED A PRIZE to someone who said you are not an equal citizen?
Make him address this issue, over and over and over again.
(And it’s fair: how CAN you trust him? You SHOULDN’T.)
How can you trust a judge who AWARDED A PRIZE to someone who said you are not an equal citizen?
Make him address this issue, over and over and over again.
(And it’s fair: how CAN you trust him? You SHOULDN’T.)
June 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
And meant to add: every non-white litigant should demand he recuse in every case.
How can you trust a judge who AWARDED A PRIZE to someone who said you are not an equal citizen?
Make him address this issue, over and over and over again.
(And it’s fair: how CAN you trust him? You SHOULDN’T.)
How can you trust a judge who AWARDED A PRIZE to someone who said you are not an equal citizen?
Make him address this issue, over and over and over again.
(And it’s fair: how CAN you trust him? You SHOULDN’T.)