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Adam Klasfeld Profile picture
@KlasfeldReports
May 21, 2021 • 20 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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Four months in, my @lawcrimenews podcast "Objections" ran its 16th episode.

The show has featured interviews with Congress members, prominent lawyers, and other newsmakers. We've broken international news and risen in Apple Charts.

The series so far, with more to come.

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The debut episode featured never-before-heard audio tapes of Lin Wood and his former law partners, exclusively obtained from their acrimonious litigation.

The tapes shed light on the pro-Trump lawyer before his post-election conspiracy theories. lawandcrime.com/high-profile/t…
During the same debut, ex-Oklahoma City bombing prosecutor Aitan Goelman spoke about pursuing that case with Merrick Garland, in an interview from well before the now-AG’s confirmation hearings renewed attention to that history.

Clip:

Ep. 2:

Sen. @RonWyden (D-Ore.) spoke about his investigations into Trump in the post-presidency, including those involving:

* Turkey’s state-run Halkbank
* Jamal Khashoggi
* Jared Kushner’s Qatari dealings

And of course, the Capitol siege—

art19.com/shows/objectio…
Ep. 3

Pressed on claims that his client is a “leader” of QAnon, accused Capitol rioter Jacob Chansley’s lawyer Al Watkins offered to shove the government memo alleging that up his own rectum.

As far as I know, Watkins never did.

Story/Clips/Pod inside: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/obj…
Ep. 4:

When Trump’s Impeachment Two dominated headlines, “Objections” featured current and former U.S. reps with key insights:

* @RepValDemings, manager for Impeachment One
* Ex-@RepRiggleman, whose farewell address warned of disinfo

Story/Clips/Pod
lawandcrime.com/impeachment/ge…
Ep. 5:

After the Texas outages left millions shivering in the dark, Attorney @CDMenefee—the top civil lawyer for the state’s biggest county—talked about the aftermath and the need for environmental justice.

Story/Clips/Pod lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
Ep. 6:

Fresh from congressional testimony, Prof. @steve_vladeck talked to me about the SCOTUS “shadow docket.

Ex-SDNY prosecutor @JenGRodgers discussed a Steve Bannon case wrinkle.

Story/Clips/Pod lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
Ep. 7:

Nobody’s covered N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo more closely than the Albany Times Union, and its editor @CaseySeiler reacted to the then-widening scandal with his thoughts on the governor’s “Shakespearean flaw.”

Story/Video/Pod lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
Ep. 8:

Common Cause’s @TheSylviaAlbert breaks down the spate of legislation to restrict voting access, in an episode named after late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s oft-quoted dissent in Shelby County v. Holder.

lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
Ep. 9:

The story Lin Wood didn’t want you to hear, featuring candid tapes, 911 and police dashcam recordings, and explosive interviews—including the mother of Kyle Rittenhouse.

Wood once fundraised for Rittenhouse. The mom wants an audit.

ICYMI: lawandcrime.com/exclusive/behi…
Ep. 10:

UPenn Law Professor Eric Feldman breaks down questions you may have about vaccine passports, mandates and everything in between—yes, they’re legal, which SCOTUS made settled law since Jacobson v. Massachusetts in 1905.

lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
Ep. 11:

Featuring audio highlights of Wayne LaPierre’s testimony, this episode unpacked the NRA’s bankruptcy trial and featured interviews from advocate @shannonrwatts and a Connecticut police chief who testified before Congress.

lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…

Ep. 12:

Airing just hours before Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdicts, this episode approached the case through a still-relevant lens: the ongoing civil case against his chief medical witness: Dr. Fowler.

@LawCrimeNetwork host @BuckEsq unpacked both cases. lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
Ep. 13:

On the 66-year-old case of Emmett Till and the 106-year-old Armenian genocide.

Till’s Cousin Deborah Watts recalls the lynching that animated the Civil Rights movement.

Scholar Ömer Taşpınar recounts being arrested for speaking historical truth. lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
Ep. 14:

Rudy Giuliani’s “not the shutting up type,” and other observations by ex-SDNY prosecutor @eliehonig on a host of topics. Honig analyzed the then-newly revealed raid, the trajectory of the “Sovereign District,” and the machinations of Bill Barr.

lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
Ep. 15:

Inside the unusual judge-ordered prosecution of Steven Donziger, who won a $9.5 billion verdict against Chevron in Ecuador before facing a blistering counterattack.

Top Dem @RepMcGovern—and five other Reps.—take his side.

Background: lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
Ep. 16:

This week’s episode, reacting to the Colonial Pipeline hack.

@FrankFigliuzzi1 describes it as a warning shot for what more sophisticated actors could have in store.

lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
I’m proud of the range and quality of the guests we’ve had—and the news we’ve broken.

It’s been an exploration into a new mode of storytelling and medium. And there’s much more to come, with an exciting new episode coming down the pipeline next week.
If you haven’t already, please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Have an idea for guests or stories? Critiques, praise or other reactions? Reach out to me. I love hearing from listeners.

We’re just getting started. art19.com/shows/objectio… Image

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Sep 5
Good morning from Washington, D.C.

After a long hiatus, Trump’s election subversion case is slated for another status conference.

The scene outside the courthouse this morning.

I’ll cover the proceedings live at 10 a.m. ET. Image
"All rise."

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan takes the bench.

Proceedings are about to begin.
For the gov't: Prosecutor Thomas Windom
For the defense: John Lauro

Judge Chutkan: "It's been almost a year. You look rested, Mr. Lauro."

Lauro cracks that life seemed "meaningless" without seeing the judge.

Chutkan: (laughter) "Enjoy it while it lasts!"
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Aug 27
NEWS:

Jack Smith just filed a superseding indictment against Trump.

Prosecutors say the new indictment "reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States."

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Note for those unfamiliar:

A superseding indictment replaces an existing indictment.

There are no new charges in today's indictment against Trump here, only the same four leveled against him in connection with the 2020 election, tailored to pass the Supreme Court's new test.
Today's news does, however, mean that another grand jury that did not see the evidence earlier put their stamp on the same charges.

On a quick glance, the latest indictment is shorter, and nixes DOJ-related claims that wouldn't have survived the immunity ruling.
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Jul 11
Just in:

Trump's lawyers filed a motion to vacate his 34 felony convictions and dismiss his New York indictment.

In the wake of SCOTUS's immunity ruling, they argue that certain testimony and evidence shouldn't have been introduced at trial, like the categories shown here. Image
DA Bragg's deadline to respond to Trump's arguments is July 24.
A few thoughts on this:

Trump's lawyers are not just challenging his convictions, based on the alleged use of "official-acts evidence."

Since prosecutors brought some of this evidence to the grand jury, they want his indictment thrown out too.
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Jul 2
Trump's sentencing in New York has been postponed in the wake of the SCOTUS immunity decision.

Justice Merchan has rescheduled it for Sept. 18.

Doc nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre…
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Explainer

Trump's lawyers agree that he isn't immune from prosecution in his N.Y. case, but they argued before trial that prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to use evidence tied to his official acts.

In April, Merchan rejected that motion as "untimely." nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre…
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On appeal, Trump's lawyers must argue:

* Merchan had it wrong that Trump brought his motion too late.

* That Trump's tweets and other records from the time of his presidency shown to the jury were "official acts."

* Prosecutors wrongly used that evidence to convict him. Image
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Jun 23
Just in

On Friday, Trump's lawyer argued that ex-AG Bill Barr only appointed Senate-confirmed US Attorneys as special counsel.

Jack Smith just contradicted that in a supplemental briefing showing three of Barr's special counsel picks from 1991 and 1992. Image
In the same briefing, Smith provided a list of statutes that appear to use "officials" to include inferior officers who don't require the advice and consent of the Senate.

It's quite long, and it rebuts Team Trump's claim that "officials" means something else.
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Judge Cannon invited prosecutors to file this brief backing up their arguments defending the special counsel's constitutional authority at the end of Friday's proceedings.

You can read it in full here.

documentcloud.org/documents/2477…
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May 30
Justice Merchan:

"We, the jury, have a verdict."
The judge announced he was going to excuse the jury before he received and read that jury note.
Alina Habba enters the courtroom and sits in the front row.
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