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Teneille Brown

@teneille.bsky.social
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Law prof and Director of the Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences (LABS) at SJQ & Assoc Dean of Research. I study evidence, torts, & law and biosciences.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One professor’s AI-assisted output: 200 papers and 14 books this year www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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One professor’s AI-assisted output: 200 papers and 14 books this year
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: JD Vance and admin officials are set to announce that they're removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage — claiming that they were fraudulently enrolled in the program, according to three people with knowledge of the forthcoming announcement.
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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud
Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Keep funding science!
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Negligence by campus police or jail wardens is immune in UT bc it arises out of a battery & results in the worst outcome of all—death. Immunity for unelected officials cannot be justified by separation of powers or deference to elections—so why is it still allowed? www.foxnews.com/politics/kir...
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m quoted in this NYT story about how the GOP in Utah has injected politics into the judiciary so they can continue to gerrymander. I’m so proud of our nonprofit Co-Equal Utah for shedding light on this. Link in comments.
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University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law @sjquinney.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Professor @teneille.bsky.social was interviewed on the @citycastsaltlake.bsky.social podcast about the effect of politics on Utah's judiciary system. open.spotify.com/episode/0wrP...
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University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law @sjquinney.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Professor @teneille.bsky.social, an evidence expert, is quoted in this ABC Listen podcast in Australia about Utah woman Kouri Richins' sentencing. Richins has been sentenced to life in prison for poisoning her husband.
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I spoke with #ABCRadioNational about the Kouri Richins trial and what it says about our culture: why we are obsessed with women who poison, and why very unhappy people cannot bring themselves to get divorced “for the kids.” www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
THIS MORNING: Todd Blanche, Acting Personal Counsel to Convicted Felon Donald Trump will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee about the DOJ budget. I better see some hard and tough questions to him about this $1.8 BILLION slush fund. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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WATCH LIVE: Acting Attorney General Blanche may be questioned on 'weaponization' fund in budget hearing
The Trump administration announced Monday the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted. B...
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What is the word for when low-level academics are being crushed by inane bureaucratic rules, while powerful people fragrantly commit war crimes and fraud with impunity?
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Zach Wolfe @zachwolfelaw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It’s not enough to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, they have to whine about getting criticized for it.
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University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law @sjquinney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Professor @teneille.bsky.social is quoted in this @apnews.com article about the push to ban cameras from the courtroom during the Charlie Kirk case. apnews.com/article/tyle...
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I have a lot of thoughts on how difficult/impossible it will be for Robinson to get an impartial jury. But I’m quoted here on camera access: apnews.com/article/tyle...
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Man accused of killing Charlie Kirk pushes to ban cameras from court
The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk wants a judge to ban cameras from the courtroom and says live broadcasts of the prosecution are violating his right to a fair trial.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/03/2026
Breaking News: The Trump administration will pay a French energy giant nearly $1 billion to abandon its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast.
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Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms
In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense. People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
On the one hand, the presidency is a fundamentally broken institution. On the other hand, Congress is a fundamentally broken institution. On the third hand, the Supreme Court is a fundamentally broken institution.
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
DOJ to consider whether this time they might just comply with the law. Wow. What a lawless world we live in.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Great to see the new House Oversight Democrats’ report on the schemes behind DOGE's creation, the benefits it offered the billionaire class, and the harms it brought to taxpayers, federal workers, and public services. 🧵 oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/02/2026
That's a weird way of saying "keeps violating court orders," ABC. Just wondering what would happen if a judge told me to do something and I said I "declined the request" 🙃 abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...
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Trump administration declines judge’s request to return college student who was deported over Thanksgiving break - ABC News
A federal prosecutor said Friday that government will not return a 19-year-old college student who was deported despite a court order blocking her removal.
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University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law @sjquinney.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Professor @teneille.bsky.social is quoted in this @nytimes.com article about Tyler Robinson's lawyers arguing a conflict of interest on the prosecution team because one prosecutor’s daughter was present when Charlie Kirk was killed.
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Tyler Robinson’s Lawyers Press to Remove Prosecutors From Kirk Murder Case
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/02/2026
every single “how are you doing?” these days comes with a sheepish grin and an implied “you know, aside from all the horrors”
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Shared some thoughts on the defense attempt to remove a prosecutor for conflicts in the Charlie Kirk murder trial: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
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Tyler Robinson’s Lawyers Press to Remove Prosecutors From Kirk Murder Case
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University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law @sjquinney.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Professor @teneille.bsky.social is quoted in this @apnews.com article about defense attorneys for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk that are trying to block videos of the shooting, claiming bias. apnews.com/article/char...
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I’m quoted in this article discussing the difficulty of empaneling an impartial jury in the Robinson trial for Charlie Kirk’s murder: apnews.com/article/char...
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Defense seeks to block videos of Charlie Kirk's killing in murder case, claims bias
Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk are trying to block Utah prosecutors from introducing graphic videos of the shooting.
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Sar mc Donnell @sarmcdonnell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law @sjquinney.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Associate Dean @teneille.bsky.social is quoted in this @ksl.com article about whether adding more justices to the Utah Supreme Court will help.
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Lawmakers say Utah's courts are overwhelmed. Will adding more justices help?
Utah lawmakers are advancing a plan to add two justices to the state Supreme Court, though some Republicans question whether it will actually improve efficiency.
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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Some straightforward and useful accounting here from M Gessen:
Please look at this list with me. Since early January, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement expanded its operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., its officers have: killed Renee Good, a white middle-class mother; menaced a pregnant immigration lawyer in her firm's parking lot; detained numerous U.S. citizens, including one who was dragged out of his house in his underwear; smashed in the windows of cars and detained their occupants, including a U.S. citizen who was on her way to a medical appointment at a traumatic brain injury center; set off crowd-control grenades and a tear gas container next to a car that contained six children, including a 6-month-old; swept an airport, demanding to see people's papers and arresting more than a dozen people who were working there; detained a 5-year-old. And now they have killed another U.S. citizen, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an I.C.U. nurse with no criminal record. It seems he was white.
The agents had him down on the ground, subdued, before they apparently fired at least 10 shots at point-blank range.Confronted with a list like this - a deluge like this - we look for details that might explain why these people were subjected to this treatment, details that might reassure us that we, by contrast, are not in danger. Good was married to a woman, and her wife, who is butch, spoke impertinently to an ICE officer, so there, Good wasn't your average white mother after all. ChongLy Thao, the man who was dragged out of his house in his underwear, is an immigrant from Laos; he is not white, and presumably he speaks with an accent. The woman on her way to the medical appointment and the family with six kids drove through areas where anti-ICE protests were taking place. The 5-year-old child's family doesn't have permanent status.
Little is known about Pretti at this writing, but his father said he did participate in protests and he might have been carrying a gun (legally). We don't focus on these details in order to justify the ICE agents' actions, which are plainly brutal and unjustifiable; we do it to force the world to make sense, and to calm our
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Somewhere in the D.C. suburbs, John Roberts is probably watching news reports from Minnesota and thinking, "you know, what we really need to do is give this man and his confederates *even more* unchecked power to act with impunity"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues. Cheerful. Funny. Gentle. And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
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DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Outrageous!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/01/2026
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is quite a sequence: —Trump asks aide for video of ICE shooting to convince NYT interviewers that driver tried to "run over" agent —They watch together —Interviewers note it shows nothing of the sort —Trump says "well . . . it's a terrible scene" GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
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We Pressed Trump on His Conclusion About the ICE Shooting. Here’s What He Said.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 13/12/2025
Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I am not sure I understand why we even have an impeachment clause if we aren’t going to use it for this.
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Sharon Carbine @sharoncarbine.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
BRAVO, Rep. Delia Ramirez! @ramirez.house.gov demonstrates the advantage of diversity in U.S. House & our federal gov. Rep. Ramirez dressed down corrupt MAGA Republican Kristi Noem, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary. - Rep. Ramirez also told Noem of her plan to hold Noem accountable.
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Don’t look away
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 19/11/2025
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Budget bill’s inclusion of funds for senators to sue DOJ for up to $500,000 each for investigating them is the ultimate pork barrel legislation. I’ll discuss with @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @msnbc.com at 8:25 pm ET.
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Michael Sinha @drsinhaesq.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#FireproofingTheFDA Panel 2: FDA, Politics, and Public Health (1) @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social (2) @pzettler.bsky.social @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social (3) Lewis Grossman @auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social (4) Joseph Daval @portalresearch.org Moderator: @teneille.bsky.social @sjquinney.bsky.social
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I wrote an op-ed with some amazing local Utahns: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
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Opinion: When will Utah's representatives stand up to Trump?
The Utah delegation has rubber stamped nearly all of Trump’s appointees and bills. We believe they have excused his abuses of power.
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The pandering to bigots at all levels is remarkable—installing them as heads of news rooms—we live in a time of unprincipled cowards, racing to the bottom.
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Teneille Brown @teneille.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
LABS hosted a provocative and engaging talk today by Romina Boccia from CATO on the role of Medicare and SS on the enormous national debt. These are crucial benefit programs, but the way they’re funded is not sustainable—and I enjoyed hearing Romina speak frankly (and expertly!) about that.
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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This is exactly the attitude that prevents some of you from becoming the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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