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Corey Rayburn Yung

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Prof at KU Law. Writes about sexual violence, criminal law, courts, judges, and empirical legal studies. He/Him/His.

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There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump.

The Justice Department has withheld thousands of documents from the Epstein files, including FBI documents that detailed a woman’s unverified allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump, according to a review by WSJ. on.wsj.com/4crnNVt

04.03.2026 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1315    πŸ” 592    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 31

And it was Alito.

03.03.2026 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"And one of the Justices came up to me and he said, 'Sir,' and with tears in his eyes, he said, 'no one has ever won tariffs like you.' He said, 'no one.' Can you believe it. A big man, and he said, 'Sir, I want to kiss you.'"

03.03.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Me, and every other college debater, in 1995-1996: "Iran will shut the down the Strait of Hormuz, causing oil shocks, and escalating to global war."
Trump Administration, 2026: "The Strait of What-Now?"

03.03.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
"Shia LaBeouf" Live - Rob Cantor
YouTube video by robcantor "Shia LaBeouf" Live - Rob Cantor

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4...

03.03.2026 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Rob Cantor warned everyone, but no one listened. Actual human cannibal.

03.03.2026 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Strait of Hormuz - Wikipedia

The US even ran its most expensive wargame in history (cost: $250 million) around this very scenario. Firing all the experts and letting Pete Hegseth play out his General Jack Ripper fantasies was a horrible mistake. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_...

03.03.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

That Iran would shutdown the Strait of Hormuz was the most foreseeable, obvious consequence of an attack that has been recognized by warplanners and foreign policy experts for at 40 years. And, yet, the Trump administration did not forsee or plan for it.

03.03.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

I'd like to purchase some political risk insurance in case my country elects idiots to run the government.

03.03.2026 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 236    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

(Also, if someone ever taught "Sex Crimes" at a US law school before me, please let me know. I have been unable to find a record of a course named as such or otherwise focused on the subject matter. But I'd like to know of any history, if it exists)

03.03.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As the first law prof in the US to teach a course called "Sex Crimes" (way back in 2009), I believe that this shirt is lawfully mine. Someone please send it to me ASAP.

03.03.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish Trump would just go back to applying tariffs to penguin island and leave real countries alone.

03.03.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just can't tell what's a throwaway line, what's a joke, and what's a policy announcement these days.

Is the President serious about an embargo on Spain?

03.03.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1339    πŸ” 226    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 17
From the piece: "Take the criminal justice system. Abolitionism in criminal law is a cause that rightly demands serious attention. The enduring pain inflicted by mass incarceration and racial disparities in policing cannot be dismissed with facile appeals to β€œdeterrence” or β€œefficiency.” Yet in the hands of a critique that privileges sweeping proclamations over rigorous inquiry, even abolitionism becomes another rhetorical instrumentβ€”and a powerless one at that. For the abolitionist, it is not enough to highlight the brutality of prisons or the failures of policing; one must frame all existing approaches as irredeemably tainted.12 Law and economics, in this caricature, is portrayed as a handmaiden of punitive excess, as though the entire discipline were a codification of oppression. Gone is any recognition that serious economic analysis grapples with the complexities of resource allocation, incentives, and human behaviors that shape real outcomes on the ground."

From the piece: "Take the criminal justice system. Abolitionism in criminal law is a cause that rightly demands serious attention. The enduring pain inflicted by mass incarceration and racial disparities in policing cannot be dismissed with facile appeals to β€œdeterrence” or β€œefficiency.” Yet in the hands of a critique that privileges sweeping proclamations over rigorous inquiry, even abolitionism becomes another rhetorical instrumentβ€”and a powerless one at that. For the abolitionist, it is not enough to highlight the brutality of prisons or the failures of policing; one must frame all existing approaches as irredeemably tainted.12 Law and economics, in this caricature, is portrayed as a handmaiden of punitive excess, as though the entire discipline were a codification of oppression. Gone is any recognition that serious economic analysis grapples with the complexities of resource allocation, incentives, and human behaviors that shape real outcomes on the ground."

I know it's just a symposium piece, but that's just a series of rants. Since there is no cite, do you know what this is referencing? I hadn't seen L&E (which had very limited influence on criminal law scholarship) referenced as the "handmaiden of punitive excess" by abolitionists.

03.03.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

After calling for a founders turd scale yesterday and rating humilitation using an ass-cheek metric today, I might need to stop talking about butts for a while.

03.03.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is twice as humilating as emergency ass surgery, rating a solid 4 cheeks on the universal humiliation scale.

03.03.2026 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

If I read this correctly, DOJ waited until just before its brief was due to ask to dismiss, then about-faced the next day and is going to try to use that to get an extension on its brief.

There are less humiliating ways to get an extension on your brief, like saying you needed emergency ass surgery

03.03.2026 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1259    πŸ” 204    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 9

Payton v. NY catching strays.

03.03.2026 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wurman has, unfortunately, managed to convince some that he is an expert on the Citizenship Clause b/c there was an absence of recent scholarship on the subject. That's not the case with 4A and arrest warrants. He is out of his depth and needs to stop giving legitimacy to the Trump admin position.

03.03.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The debate in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista (2001) illustrates that there was substantial historical evidence that arrest warrants should be more often required outside the home under an originalist understanding. Arguing that an original understanding wouldn't require them in homes is BS.

03.03.2026 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If "debated" means completely contrary to undisturbed 45+ year old SCOTUS precedent (Payton v. NY) that originalist scholars have only previously criticized as being too limited in its scope, then sure. Keep muddying those waters ...

03.03.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.

Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.

Democrats had two years to fix this.

03.03.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1232    πŸ” 484    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 11

If you lose to the 50th ranked team on the neutral site, that's ok - you're still a quality tournament team with another Q1 loss. But, if that opponent drops to 51st, oh no! Then you have a Q2 loss and are now on the bubble. Utter nonsense.

03.03.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Using the quadrant system, which was in its fourth season in 2020-21, the quality of wins and losses will be organized based on game location and the opponent's NET ranking.

Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75
Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 135-240
Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353

Using the quadrant system, which was in its fourth season in 2020-21, the quality of wins and losses will be organized based on game location and the opponent's NET ranking. Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75 Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135 Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 135-240 Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353

This isn't math - it's vibes with numbers.
(from the official NCAA website: www.ncaa.com/news/basketb...)

03.03.2026 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is the year 2026 and the NCAA is still using a ranking system based on quadrants of ordinal rankings to seed teams as though the distribution of team quality is perfectly flat and integers are the only available numbers.

03.03.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If a lack of definitions renders criminal statutes unconstitutionally vague, I have some bad news about 99% of criminal law.

03.03.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unprecedeted levels of incompetence

03.03.2026 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Sleepy Joe Biden ... gave so much of the super high end away (FREE!), he didn't bother to replace it. Fortunately, I rebuilt the military in my first term..."

That's not how linear time works.

03.03.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"It was there at the future site of the Supreme Court of the United States that I told the gentlemen James Madison that he was a turd." @jdmortenson.bsky.social

03.03.2026 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best lawyers argue not before, but above, the Supreme Court, at the Highest Court in the Land!

03.03.2026 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0