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Adam Klasfeld Profile picture
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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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Adam Klasfeld Profile picture
May 21
This isn’t a legal document.

It’s a PR document that in parts contradicts how the legal document reveals how the fund will actually operate.

Some examples 🧵⬇️
PR Document: "There is no partisan restriction."

Here's how the plainly partisan way in which the legal document defines the "representative" conduct. Image
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Half-true, but there's a big asterisk: "Claimants can include entities," which is why sources told ABC News that Trump's entities could apply. Image
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The “confidential investigation documents” that Patel evasively alludes to is Volume II of the Jack Smith report, per the indictment.

It’s the only special counsel final report in US history that’s not been publicly released, as a result of Judge Cannon’s order at Trump’s urging.Image
... Also true and relevant context.
Lineberger's case was filed in the Southern District of Florida's Fort Pierce division, virtually guaranteeing a favorable judicial assignment for Trump DOJ.

Instead of Cannon, the case goes to newly minted Judge Ed Artau, who has this tangled history. politico.com/news/2025/06/2…
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May 6
Trump DOJ opposes the release of SPLC grand jury transcripts, but what the memo *doesn't* say speaks volumes. Feds don't dispute the SPLC's account of the Trump admin's "gross misrepresentations" about the informant program.

Instead, the US Attorney says that's "not relevant."

Why that matters.🧵Moreover, the public comments in question—whether the SPLC ever shared information obtained by its field sources with law enforcement—are simply not relevant to the charges in the indictment. This case is about fraudulently obtaining money from donors, lying to banks, and concealing payments to the same organizations the SPLC publicly told donors they were fighting against. (Doc. 1 at 3–6). What, if anything, the SPLC did with the information it obtained through field sources is not relevant to the charges.
The SPLC's motion seeking the grand jury records rattled off a series of "false statements" by Trump and his surrogates about Charlottesville and the informants program.

The group said info gathered there thwarted a terrorist attack and led to arrests. allrisenews.com/p/splc-tipped-…
Debunking Trump's revisionist history of Charlottesville, SPLC said it handed the FBI a 45-page “Event Alert” with informant-gathered information.

The dossier tipped off agents about the names, photos, criminal histories and "weapons of choice of the people there."
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Apr 23
By the DOJ's own account, the SPLC's informant program was cheap and effective.

For a fraction of a *percentage* of their annual budget, SPLC penetrated the nation's worst hate groups and published their secrets with info from their turncoats.

The DOJ's case assumes donors felt defrauded by this. buff.ly/cwTnYg6
The Trump DOJ alleges that the SPLC spent about $3 million on informants over the course of a *decade.*

Check out of the SPLC's revenue and expenditures from 2024, the last fiscal year records were public. That's a typical year, and it's a drop in the bucket. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…Image
In return, SPLC infiltrated the KKK, the neo-Nazis, and other extremist groups, and they shared their secrets with federal law enforcement until Kash Patel put an end to that last October.
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Two Trump appointees on the D.C. Circuit panel blocked Boasberg from even INVESTIGATING contempt of court related to the March 2025 flights to El Salvador.

The dissent: "Without the contempt power, the rule of law is an illusion, a theory that stands upon shifting sands."

Opinions buff.ly/4kr3ALC"Contempt of court is a public offense, and the fate of our democratic republic will depend on whether we treat it as such. In the many forms in which it can be committed, contempt degrades the power that the People, through their Constitution and Congress, gave the federal courts. Without the contempt power, the rule of law is an illusion, a theory that stands upon shifting sands. For contempt offends not only the authority of whichever judge has been subjected to such incursions, but it also offends our system of governance. Addressing contempt is, therefore, a responsibility that is...
This is the second time Judges Rao and Walker granted a writ of mandamus, an "extraordinary" rebuke of a lower court judge.

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The nuance here will be important to note in light of the Trump DOJ's campaign to vilify Boasberg, whose D.C. Circuit peers largely stood up for him even when his rulings didn't hold.
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