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Ryan Goodman

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Ryan Goodman

@rgoodlaw

Chaired Professor NYU Law. Co-editor-in-chief, Just Security. Former Chaired Professor Harvard Law. Former Special Counsel Department of Defense.

New York, NY

justsecurity.org/author/goodman…

Joined February 2013

Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Jul 29, 2025
1/ Important: "Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007. ... That of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida." So Trump didn't kick him out for many years after knowing Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from MAL in 2000. 🧵
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Sep 3, 2025
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read this expert analysis⤵️
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Jul 26, 2025
2 points: 1) There's no statute of limitations in New York for Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes (+ maybe options in New Mexico, Florida). Pardon can't stop state prosecutions. 2) We just got another reason to release Epstein files: so the public can test Maxwell's truthfulness.
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Aug 5, 2025
New York Times obtains photographs showing surveillance cameras inside Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse. You know what that means. nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/…
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Oct 20, 2025
I'm grateful to @60Minutes featuring our study published at Just Security. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'):
60 Minutes
@60Minutes
Oct 19, 2025
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation (4th edition)
From justsecurity.org
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Nov 12, 2025
It begins. Clearly incriminating against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Aug 21, 2025
Understand the deeper significance of Chief Judge Matthew Brann's ruling that Alina Habba's appointment was legally invalid. Judge Brann comes via the Federalist Society, a member of the NRA, and previously active Republican pol. Read how he begins the legal analysis.⬇️
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Oct 27, 2025
"It's disheartening to be forced to go against your community members and your neighbors." "It feels illegal. This is not what we signed up to do." - Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek 2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Sep 17, 2025
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: "Is a basic understanding of the First Amendment too much to expect from the nation’s Attorney General?" "Ms. Bondi hasn’t had a distinguished tenure as AG ...."
Opinion | Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial
From wsj.com
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Jul 29, 2025
Here's the very disturbing part of this The timing and Trump's knowledge: Year 2000: Epstein-Maxwell 'took' Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago 2002: Trump said most infamous line about Epstein being a "terrific" friend and liking "younger" ones 2004: Trump rupture with Epstein
Acyn
@Acyn
Jul 29, 2025
Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here. Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre? Trump: I think so. He stole her.
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Aug 21, 2025
"Among other changes announced by Gabbard, the restructuring eliminates the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which monitors foreign efforts to influence the US public." Also eliminates Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. 1/2
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Sep 5, 2025
1/ Just so we are all clear on this. Based on what this former official "who has years of direct experience in fighting drug cartels" told the Times. The order to blow up the Venezuelan boat may have instead killed migrants who were being smuggled.
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Aug 13, 2025
If you're going to smear the mayor of DC with falsehoods, at least give the audience the impression that you know who SHE is. Multiple times Mullin refers to the mayor as "he."
Acyn
@Acyn
Aug 13, 2025
Markwayne Mullin on DC: I will say this, the very racist mayor, and people may get eyebrows when I raise that, but he is the one that brings in race into the conversation..
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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Oct 24, 2025
Boat strikes put U.S. service members in legal jeopardy: "Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished."
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