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Guha Krishnamurthi

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Professor, Maryland Carey Law (he/him)

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 8h
Hey maybe don’t ask an unfuckable ghoul why abortion matters to people’s lives
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 9h
It’s an important lesson for those inclined to nihilism It very predictably leads to the death of innocent people, can you live with that?
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 03/10/2026
Well at least Bryce Underwood only cost a bad guy some money
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Johnny Lawrence Pound Chest
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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The statement of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide on the botched execution of Christa Pike is worth reading in full.

CCDPW Statement on the botched execution of
Christa Pike
October 1, 2026
Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty. The governor must commute Christa's sentence now.
-Randy Spivey, one of Christa Pike's lawyers
Last night, the State of Tennessee recklessly and callously sought to execute Christa Pike, notwithstanding the warnings of medical experts that Tennessee's lethal injection protocol would cause her to experience agonizing pain and psychological terror. Today, Christa remains in the hospital after the State tried and failed to execute her over the course of two hours. We do not know whether she will recover and what her recovery will look like. We are heartbroken for Christa's family, friends, and her legal team for having to endure the consequences of the state's barbarity.
After she was strapped to the gurney, the execution team inserted at least seven different needles in her left arm over the course of an hour. According to Christa's lawyer Randy Spivey, one of the needles appeared to be bent as they removed it from her arm. Medical experts had anticipated these problems based on Christa's small veins and a condition called thrombocytosis. When the executioners finally inserted an IV and injected the poison, something went terribly wrong. Although they injected her with double the usual dose of pentobarbital, Christa did not die.
While some media outlets reported that she was "snoring," her attorney and others stated that she whimpered, heaved, choked, breathed deep and raspy breaths, and moved frequently. At one point she stated that she felt her arm was burning up.
Christa's lawyers demanded that the prison halt the execution, they begged the courts and the governor to intervene, and they were met with stony silence while Christa suffered. Two and a half hours after the execution process began, the prison finally called an ambulance to take Christa to the hospital, where she is receiving t…In addition, psychologist Bethany Brand testified that because of Christa's severe post-traumatic stress disorder, being immobilized on a gurney while being poked and prodded with needles would very likely trigger a flashback of her rapes. Given this, we cannot separate the deliberate cruelty of Tennessee's actions from Christa's identity as a survivor of sexual violence. We therefore conclude that the gratuitous and extreme pain inflicted by Tennessee's executioners was not only torture but was also an act of gender-based violence.
The State of Tennessee bears the blame for this injustice. Its lawyers repeatedly discredited Christa's accounts of sexual violence, calling her a pathological liar even though her rapes at the ages of 11 and 17 were corroborated by court documents, police reports, and hospital records. One month before Christa's execution, the State finally acknowledged the truth of her suffering. By then it was too late. While one court issued a temporary stay of execution to examine the State's about-face, Tennessee appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which vacated the stay and cleared a path for Christa's execution. In their dissents, Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson castigated their colleagues for failing to appreciate "our own fallibility" and for risking irretrievable harm. The majority of the Court was unmoved.
While many media outlets focus on the details of Tennessee's botched execution attempt, the real takeaway of this story is the flimsiness of the legal architecture upholding capital punishment. The courts knew that Christa could face unbearable pain during her execution. They knew that being strapped to a gurney was likely to trigger a flashback to her childhood rapes. They knew that the State had invoked debunked myths about survivors of sexual violence to discredit Christa's accounts of rape, preventing a fair analysis of her trial lawyers' negligence. Yet the courts did nothing.
We recognize Christa Pike's humanity, her right to d…
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holy shit Pitt
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think he will retire if Dems take the Senate, but the Rs can’t help themselves. They will appoint some unhinged moron And it will only make the case for expansion stronger
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NO WAY IM GOING TO OKLAHOMA
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Bart Simpson Meets Lionel Hutz: Contingency Law
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😳
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
someone should call schmitt's office to ask: Can you provide a list of all cases in which he was a prosecutor? Because I would like to investigate the state's conduct in those cases, given that Senator Schmitt is either an incompetent buffoon or an unethical prosecutor
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 30/09/2026
Ok, these look amazing. Northeastern State’s end zones have Cherokee script.
OBP OTET OSSY
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THE ENDZONES READ
"NORTHEASTERN STATE"
IN THE CHEROKEE LANGUAGE
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Perhaps because I am Indian or because I know something (really not even that much) of history, but I regard beardos as fierce warriors
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And today too!
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City's best chance of a reprieve is to go the White House with a Trump jersey and beg for help
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I half think the whole reason for this change is so that anytime anyone asks a tough question about AI, he can respond that is is SI
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I learned this from Times of India late last night
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When Roberts said “of course Korematsu was wrongly decided” I don’t think he meant that
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Carlton Banks Misses Basketball Shot
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s funny bc this order tells us how artificial intelligence doesn’t capture the scope of the new technologies, and then proceeds to define “super intelligence” as the technologies encompassed under “artificial intelligence” in the federal statute
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Daphne Pierpoint @daphnepierpoint.com · 29/09/2026
Oof. x.com/meidastouch/...
Footage of Jack Smith at a Maryland/Iowa women’s basketball game
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans don't know ball, exhibit 743
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
do your globle today! globle-game.com/game
globle-game.com
Globle
Use your geography knowledge to figure out the mystery country in as few guesses as possible!
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What does Vivek Ramaswamy think of this?
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So you’re saying, “she got no respect”…?
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How bout dem cowboysssss
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a ghostbusters celebration
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Much easier to check who remained
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“No” saved ya 6 minutes
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I literally said this today, except my class let out at 9:40 am
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah this is how I felt during the fucking 40 flyovers in DC on July 4
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Apply this reasoning to home insurance
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some thoughts about a tension between textualism and originalism. It seems like the way the "history and tradition" test is being applied is anti-textualist... 🧐 Thanks to @dorfonlaw.bsky.social as always
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The dunce could catch on
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think she can be charged under Maine law
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To be clear, Mike Davis is not just any Gorsuch clerk. He was a trusted confidante who helped Gorsuch set up his 10th Circuit Chambers and then his SCOTUS Chambers
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Bart Simpson and the 'At Least You Tried' Cake
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Either people really jumped the gun on that Bears offense… Or the Vikings defense is the 1985 Bears
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He says while suing his patients for their last few dollars
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
TMZ, cmon you gotta be better. Kraft did not double Macklemore’s pledge, he vaguely pledged aid to people in the region—that is such an odd phrase, you have reason to suspect it is meant to circumvent Macklemore’s challenge
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Crack Drugs
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey @vanityfair.com, wrong Indian woman, that’s not usha you circled That’s Charanya Krishnaswami—the actual star, the supernova, of YLS Class of 2013
YLS Class of 2013
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i guess we know what the B in FBI stands for
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Simpsons Mr. Burns: 20 Takes, Best One
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yo, the intro went right into an ad for United Healthcare…
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apology form to Arch.pdf
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Go Blue 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Caitlyn Jenner is 76. Nobody is picking a 76 year old!
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Another thing: I think Talarico is better at dragging regular people—with all sorts of warts and prejudices—to the right side of morality than I would be. So I trust his judgment on how to do that and I believe he is trying to do that
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think he probably was privately against the war, but he is a weak person. He has no real convictions, except his own desire for power. And at no point could he ever actually stand up to Trump, because he is a yes-man loser
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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Corey is of course right. Trump has engaged in various forms of bribery--including settlement bribery!--but this is not bribery, this is just a stupid policy proposal and probably a lie papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Settlement Bribery
Bribery is bad. Frivolous lawsuits are bad. What happens when you combine the two? Recently, we have seen people—well, at least one person—do just that. Specifi
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