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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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BREAKING: Trump admin must process education grants "without delay"

A federal judge preserved his ability to enforce the ruling even if the Senate passes a budget bill restraining his contempt power. @AllRiseNews allrisenews.com/p/linda-mcmaho…
A quick thread on this:

This is the first time I personally have seen a court proactively address the possibility of Congress restraining the enforcement power of the federal judiciary.

(There are a lot of cases out there, and perhaps it's come up elsewhere.)
Here's how it went down:

Assistant NYAG Andrew Amer brought up the restraints on contempt power included in the budget bill toward the end of the hearing.

This is the language. See the highlighted clause? No court of the United States may enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.
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Scott Mescudi, a.k.a. Kid Cudi, takes the stand in the case against Sean Combs.

He's wearing a leather jacket on this rainy Thursday, and his testimony has just begun.
Mescudi says that Combs broke into his house, spooking his dog so much that he was "very jittery, kind of like on edge all the time."

When Combs tried to contact him later, he said: "I told him, 'No, you broke into my house. You messed with my dog. I don’t want to talk to you.'"
Exchange with the prosecutor:

Q: Was there a time that you learned that your car had caught fire?
A: Yes.
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May 13
NEWS:

Casandra "Cassie" Ventura has taken the stand in the racketeering trial of Sean Combs.

The prosecution's preview of her testimony, @AllRiseNews allrisenews.com/p/sean-combs-r…
Prosecutors immediately show her a still frame of the surveillance video from the hotel.

Q: Who introduced you to the term "freak off"?
A: Sean did.
Asked what a "freak off" is, Cassie responds: "It basically entails hiring of an escort (deep exhale) setting up this experience so that I could perform for Sean."

She is pregnant and soft-spoken in her testimony.
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May 13
Happening soon:

Trump's tariffs face their first legal test before the Court of International Trade — and the public can connect remotely.

Background @AllRiseNews allrisenews.com/p/mothers-day-…
Find the link to the court's YouTube page in the story at the top of the thread.
"All rise."

The Court of International Trade is now in session.
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May 12
As the afternoon session begins, witness testimony in the Sean Combs trial begins with Israel Flores, an LAPD officer who was a guard with Securitas in 2016.

On March 5, 2016, Flores worked at the InterContinental Hotel when there was an "incident" on the 6th floor.
Flores describes going up the elevator to the 6th floor and seeing Combs in "a towel and some colored socks" and Cassie "in the corner, like covering her face."

Q: "How did you recognize Mr. Combs?"
A: "He's like a rapper, producer."
Flores identifies photos of Combs and Cassie.

Though he recognized Combs immediately, Flores says he didn't recognize Cassie immediately.
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May 12
Good morning from New York.

P. Diddy's long anticipated sex trafficking trial is about to begin, and I'm here live in the courthouse.

Find else what else is on the docket this week, @AllRiseNews allrisenews.com/p/mothers-day-…
"All rise!"

Assistant U.S. Maurene Comey for the government.

Marc Agnifilo for Diddy.

Peremptory strikes of jurors before opening statements.
Diddy's lawyer says he noticed that the government struck Black people from seven of nine strikes.
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