Adam Klassfeld (22:33)

Right, right. Co founder.

Alison Gill (22:35)

Co founder of All Rise News and my good friend Adam Klassfeld. Hi, Adam. Welcome.

Adam Klassfeld (22:38)

Thank you, Alison. Always great to be here.

Alison Gill (22:41)

All right, so what kind of Douglas Adams stuff do you have for me today? I'm just kidding. But though, seriously, because there were, I think I was looking at social media and I had read this opinion from Judge Leon, talk about who appointed him. His use of 24 exclamation points, only one of them belonging to Donald Trump and his gumbo analogy. I mean, it was just the most fascinating thing I've read on a court docket in a long time.

Adam Klassfeld (23:07)

It really was. And I'm just checking one thing right now. So he is a George W. Bush appointee. But just to do a small correction here, 26 exclamation points. There is a 27th, but I'm going to be a stickler here because the 27th quoted one of Donald Trump's exclamation points. And as listeners know, it is not uncommon for Trump to be prone to rhetorical excess and exclamation points and all the like. It is very uncommon for a federal judge to be so exasperated by a litigant that the opinion that they author is absolutely littered with exclamation points like they are a 1920s dramatist. You know, that he's doing his best pantomime of Clifford Odets here. And if you look at the first paragraph of this ruling, there are two of those exclamation points appear in the first paragraph. And those sentences are the founding Fathers knew this exclamation point. Then he said, for the reasons set forth below, I have concluded that this order must be struck down in its entirety as unconstitutional. Indeed, to rule otherwise would be unfaithful to the judgment and vision of the Founding fathers. Exclamation point. And the ruling goes on in that way. There are two times when he alludes to an argument by the attorneys for the law firm Wilmer Hale, and they're one of the firms that Trump targeted. This is the unconstitutional and illegal ruling that this judge is striking down and addressing their arguments. WilmerHale's arguments, he says twice, I agree. Exclamation point. One time he hears the arguments of the administration and says, please. Exclamation point. And another instance, here's another argument by the administration and says, please, that dog won't hunt. So this is a judge that is totally exasperated and incredulous of what he is having to deal with. I've joked with people that they broke Judge Leon. I have never seen such an even tempered jurists from the George W. Bush era move to exasperated exclamation point to exasperated exclamation point, talking about the unconstitutionality and illegality of what he has been forced to contend with, which he, as we've spoken about, Alison, memorably described in a footnote as a gumbo. Where the first section the of the order, the executive order targeting this law firm is the roux of this gumbo. And the rest of the sections with all of these severe sanctions against the firm for his personal vendetta are all put together. A concoction that, as he says, gives him heartburn.

Alison Gill (26:33)

That's what he says. He says, it's in a footnote. The order is akin to a gumbo. Sections two through five are the meaty ingredients, for example, the andouille and the okra, the tomatoes, the crab, the oysters. But it's the roux Here, section one, which holds everything together. A gumbo served and eaten with all the ingredients together. And so too must the sections of the order be addressed together, as explained in this memorandum opinion. This gumbo gives the court heartburn. Now talk a little bit about what he's ruling on, because you mentioned Wilmer Hale, you mentioned the executive hoarder, which is the gumbo section one, the roux that holds it all together and everything else, the meaty parts that give the court heartburn. And basically was trying to explain this is why we have, I'm striking this down, the entire executive order down is because it has to be done all at once.

Adam Klassfeld (27:22)

Right.

Alison Gill (27:23)

We can't separate out these ingredients, so to speak. And so this is about the law firm Wilmer Hale, which is one of the, one of the law firms that is fighting back against the Trump administration's executive order to bar certain law firms, attorneys from federal buildings and to strip them of their security clearances. And to, you know, that, I mean, the, the whole thing is just really targeting a very important part of the judiciary. And that's kind of what he's getting at here with. Please. And the founding Fathers knew this and, and you know, his multiple exclamation pointed ruling.

Adam Klassfeld (28:00)

Right. Well, let's pick apart the judge's gumbo for a second. The part that he identifies as the root, that Trump has issued a number of these executive orders. And there's a formula to it where in the first section, he talks about all the things he doesn't like about the firm, and it's nakedly retaliatory. He says, I don't like your firm because you employed Bob Mueller. And that was the case with Wilmer Hale, with Jenner and Block. He says, I don't like the firm because they worked with Andrew Weissman. And it goes down the list where firms that were involved in 2020 election litigation, it's all in section one, where he essentially says, in all of these cases, I'm retaliating against this law firm because they associated with these lawyers against whom I have personal vendettas. He phrases it differently, but that's the crux of it. And that's why every judge who has looked at these has struck them down because they're just so nakedly unconstitutional against the First Amendment of the Constitution, against the Fifth Amendment for due process, against the Sixth Amendment right to counsel for all of the people who want to retain those firms for their own actions, whether to challenge the government's behavior or unconstitutional actions or for any other reason. So These are the grounds on which the judges have been striking these orders down. And the roux, as the judge analogizes it, is this first section where Trump articulates exactly why he has a vendetta against the firm. And then sections two through five are what he's going to do about it. He's not going to let their lawyers into federal buildings. He's not going to let their lawyers get security clearances. He's going to make lives miserable for the firms and not only their lawyers. As the judges have noted in these rulings, they penalize anyone who works with these multibillion dollar entities. If you work in the mail room, you might find yourself unable to enter a federal building. It's unclear from the text of the order just how expansive it is. So what you have here is every time a law firm challenges this vendetta from the White House, they win. And that has. That's just been the case down the line. There has not been a single defeat on the merits. There's one case left, left, and it's Sussman and Godfrey. We'll hear from that case soon. But it's not looking good for the administration there either, because all of this is just so palpably and nakedly unconstitutional that it just keeps getting struck down. Because it says right in the beginning of all of these orders that Trump is punishing the law firms because they associated with people that they don't like. And that's what the judges are saying is just a transparent First Amendment violation.

Alison Gill (31:33)

Yeah. And I think the courts are losing a lot of the faith that the Department of Justice has built up over years and years in their candor. Losing faith in their candor. We had. This is pretty unbelievable. So there's a case on the docket right now of about seven people who were sent to South Sudan. They were on their way to South Sudan, stopped in Djibouti. There was a hearing. The judge said, you know, the plaintiffs wanted them to be brought home, to be given due process. And the judge was like, the DOJ was like, well, we'd rather not bring them home. We'd rather, you know, if we have to give them due process, we'd rather do it on the ground in Djibouti. And the judge is like, all right, what would that look like? Are you going to fly people out there? Are there going to be translators and interpreters? Where are you going to put them? You got to give them 15 days. Are you going to put them, House them at the military base, blah, blah, blah. And they Hashed all this out with the, you know, with the. The judge saying, you sure you don't want to bring him back? You'd rather do this here? And they're like, yeah, we'd rather do it in Djibouti. And then they immediately went to the district judge and then skipped the First Circuit altogether and went straight to the Supreme Court saying, it's not fair that we have to do this on the ground in Djibouti. Please put a stay on this, make this stop. You know, I don't know why they thought they could do this. And in fact, in their filing to the Supreme Court, they actually lied and said that the district court judge forced them to do this on the ground in Djibouti. The judge was like, you can bring them home if you want. You can do it there. You can take them to a third country and do it. You tell me what you want to do. And the government was like, if we have to give people due process, we would rather do it on the ground in Djibouti. And then that a couple hours later, that empty plane in Djibouti flew back to the United States without these people on it. They could have just come back to the United States, but they didn't, because that would be losing, I guess. And now they're telling the Supreme Court in what I think is possibly a sanctionable filing because they misrepresented the fact that the district court, district court forced us to do this on the ground here. That was their idea. And now we've got Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson saying, you know what? This is this. We're going to give the plaintiffs a week to respond to this, which is, you know, seems like there's not a huge, big urgency to help the government out with the position they've put themselves in. What are your thoughts on this?

Adam Klassfeld (34:01)

Well, I mean, you put your finger on it with Justice Jackson. She just. By saying, okay, deadline, June 4, that spoke loudly because the application asked for an immediate stay. And so whenever there is an application before the Supreme Court, it goes to the Circuit justice. And Justice Jackson is the justice for the First Circuit that the Trump administration is trying to leapfrog over. And Justice Jackson said, okay, your application for an immediate stay will hold until at least June 4th, where we're going to hear from the other side. It seems that the administration's really overplaying their hand here. As you noticed, Alison, this was what the government wanted. You could not have Judge Murphy bend over backwards more at that hearing. I was listening to that hearing when it took place at the time, and we spoke about it at the time too, and that was an accommodation. He said, okay, whatever you do, you need to give people notice and due process for a reasonable fear interview. And let's unpack that from the legalese. Do these people have a reasonable fear that if they're taken to an active war zone in South Sudan where a fragile peace accord just collapsed and notoriously human rights abusing nation takes these men, that they would fear some sort of human rights abuse from a notorious human rights abuser in the grip of war? That's what this is about. And the judge gave them the option to do this part of due process that the Supreme Court signed onto nine zero. Now it was a nine zero decision. Even Alito and Thomas said that there was some notice and process due. So the crux of Judge Murphy's ruling was that, okay, some notice and process needs to be given according to the Constitution, the Supreme Court. And as he put it, I think in his ruling, common sense and common decency. So he said, if you think you can do that on the ground in Djibouti, I will defer to DHS and you're going to have to comply with my order any way you see fit. But I'm not going to defy Supreme Court's precedent and let you run roughshod over the Constitution.

Alison Gill (36:52)

And what's interesting too, Adam, is that the plaintiffs were like, look, we really would prefer that you just bring these folks home. And they started to talk about. The plaintiffs started to talk about some of the obstacles you might run into trying to give people due process in Djibouti. They're like, are you doing it on the back of a plane? Are you going to house them at the military installation? Do we have to fly our lawyers out there or can we do it virtually? Are there going to be interpreters? This seems like a really, really difficult way to do this. That's why we prefer they be sent back to the United States.

Adam Klassfeld (37:22)

Right?

Alison Gill (37:23)

So he didn't, as in other courts, like with Abrego Garcia, order that they be facilitate the return of these people to the United States. He actually said, oh, I'm willing to work with you. You tell me what you want to do, Mr. Government. And the government's like, well, if we have to do due process, then we'd rather do it on the ground in Djibouti. And now they're saying, we can't possibly do this on the ground in Djibouti. So Supreme Court, you have to stop this, you have to put a stay on this. It's just the most. And, and Judge Murphy's subsequent ruling to that sort of illustrated that, like, I can't believe you're, you know, you did this to yourselves.

Adam Klassfeld (38:02)

Right, right. And I think that what Judge Murphy was trying to do is make it absolutely bulletproof on appeal because he sees what happens in every other court across the country, and he thinks that maybe if I do it this way, it neutralizes any sort of delay. Of course, because it's the Trump administration. Delay is the game, and there's the inevitable appeal, even if what they're appealing is their own compromise. But right here, this particular maneuver went to Justice Jackson. She put it on a slowboat. And so it's not going to have the effect that they wanted. And in the meantime, they have to comply with the judge's order.

Alison Gill (38:49)

Yeah. And finally, speaking of the Abrego Garcia case, Judge Sinis, not a lot of exclamation points, but she was clearly not happy with the day that the Trump administration's response to the amended complaint was due. Basically, they asked for a 30 day extension and she came back and said, what? No, it's due today. Shut up. Like, it was like a couple of paragraphs. Like you have the gall to come to me and ask for 30 more days on the day that your stuff is due. And I think she's just about had enough of this administration's shenanigans as well.

Adam Klassfeld (39:31)

You're right. I mean, we've been talking a lot about exclamation points, and part of the reason it's so rare to see exclamation points in judicial rulings is federal judges don't need them. Every time they speak, it's an exclamation point. There's an implicit threat of sanction, there's an implicit threat of professional reprimand. So there might not have been a bunch of exclamation points in this Judge Zini's ruling, but the entire thing was a giant exclamation point. It was saying the deadline is today.

Alison Gill (40:07)

And they it didn't really respond to the complaint other than to file a motion to dismiss on jurisdictional grounds. So back to the same old delay, delay, delay that we have come to know and hate from the Trump administration. But bigger picture, Adam, and I know you talk about this on All Rise News quite a bit, is the lack of candor, the diminishment of the deference the court usually gives. The government is slipping away in a lot of cases. In some cases, it's non existent. Even the Supreme Court outside of Alito and Thomas, are no longer taking the government's word for it. When we talk about the order they put in place about the detainees at Bluebonnet in the Northern District of Texas, they're just no longer, there's no longer faith in what the Department of Justice tells the courts. And I think that that is a problem that's going to be, you know, if we would wrestle our government back from where it is now, something that could take a really long time to fix.

Adam Klassfeld (41:17)

Right. I mean, what you just said, Allison, brings me back to one of the early hearings in Judge Bosebert's case. And he told the Justice Department attorney that he tells his law clerks, your credibility is everything that you have, and when you squander that, it's very hard to get it returned. So it's exactly what you were saying, that this is something. For all of the Trump administration's bluster, for all of Donald Trump's bluster, they need the federal courts for any number of things that have to do with their agenda. And it could be something as simple as criminal trials that they want to pursue. It's part of the system of government. They just can't thumb their nose at it. No matter if the House GOP slips a little poison pill into the budget bill that restrains federal judges ability to carry out contempt procedures, yes, that's an alarming thing. But let no one think that the judicial branch of government becomes irrelevant because of a House GOP majority. The Trump administration is still going to need to work with these co equal branches to carry out its agenda. And right now, One of those CO equal branches is saying more than 170 times, you keep doing things that are likely illegal and unconstitutional. It's a daily drumbeat. And the more that it goes in that direction, the more it's going to really hold the administration back, no matter how much they claim that nothing stands in the way. He's a king. He's above the law. Right now, I'm speaking from New York City, and pretty close to where I live is the FDR drive that now has congestion pricing because a federal judge appointed by Trump stopped. The Trump administration told the Trump administration, no, Donald Trump, not in these words, no, Donald Trump is not the king of New York City traffic. And so he cannot dictate that congestion pricing will not be allowed in New York. And it's still in play. It's still reducing traffic in New York and helping has environmental benefits. And a federal judge appointed by Trump listed those benefits to the people of New York in a just released 109 page ruling. I'll read a passage for it now. Just because an illustration to listeners that these daily rulings really do matter on the ground. It matters to the people of New York, he said. In sum, the reduction in congestion caused by the tolling program offers not only superior environmental outcomes, but also increased productivity, improvements to health and safety, more instruction time versus school children, and beneficial economic outcomes. Defendants do not seriously contest that the operation of the tolling programs confers these benefits or that such benefits support a preliminary injunction. That was Judge Lewis Lyman, appointed by Trump in his first term. So this is the judicial branch in action that's actually changing things and stopping the Trump administration from doing things that are part of its agenda.

Alison Gill (45:13)

Yeah. By the way, congrats on that congestion pricing ruling.

Adam Klassfeld (45:20)

Well, as a New Yorker, I have to say I live fairly close to the FDR drive. I think, like I used to as a lifelong New Yorker or grew up in New Jersey, very close to New York. I've lived most of my life without a car because you don't need it in New York. Then I spent some time in Texas, and so now I'm a motorist. And now that I'm living back in New York and I, like other New Yorkers, might have been skeptical in the early days but wanted. It seemed like a worthwhile thing and see what, what happens with it. But I think most New Yorkers have seen that the environmental benefits are apparent, that traffic time is reduced, and the President of the United States has no say on how the people of New York manage their traffic.

Alison Gill (46:20)

That's the more important part. And I think we'll continue to see rulings like that, especially where he's reaching into state stuff and trying to, you know, particularly I'm interested to see how the motion to dismiss the case against Judge Hannah Dugan comes out, because her very astute lawyers are like, get your federal hands out of our Wisconsin state court. You're violating the Constitution, you're violating the 10th amendment, and you're violating judicial immunity. But I appreciate you coming on today. You know, it's interesting when you talk about Trump having to work with the other two branches of government to put forth his agenda or to advance his agenda. Sometimes I worry his agenda is to take power away from those other two branches.

Adam Klassfeld (46:59)

Oh, absolutely.

Alison Gill (47:00)

So it's good to see these judges pushing back, especially with so many exclamation points and gumbo analogies. I thought of you instantly. I was like, we Need a Douglas Adams analogy in here. And I was scouring the footnotes for one, but we only got the gumbo.

Adam Klassfeld (47:15)

Well, you know, you know, to keep it on the gumbo analogy, I think the judge would say, so long and thanks for all the fish.

Alison Gill (47:23)

Thanks for all the fish. It's all right. Good gumbo, I guarantee, right? Justin Wilson, Cajun chef. Thank you so much for your time, everybody. You have to subscribe to All Rise News. Please check it out and follow Adam Klassfeld on social media. I appreciate your time today, my friend.

Adam Klassfeld (47:40)

Thank you. Alison, always a pleasure.

Alison Gill (47:42)

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I saw on social media that the Feds were disposing of perfectly good rapid Covid tests and but that anyone could request them as long as it was large quantities. I found this enraging, so I thought what the hell I know people around here that can use them. I requested 5,000 tests, but I never really expected them to show up. One month later and two days before the end of school, I got a call from a logistics company that they were delivering two skids of tests to my home the next day. Holy shit. The boxes took up an entire wall of my basement, floor to ceiling. I'm proud to say I'm down to the last 10 boxes or so in the course of a week. I delivered the tests to homeless shelters, the Salvation army, my neighbors, some schools, and to teachers and students directly. Everyone's been so grateful to receive them, and it's been so rewarding in so many ways to deliver them, not the least of which is to give a middle finger to this administration that's dismantling healthcare at every level. What a fucking cool thing that you did. Anonymous. All right, keep fighting the good fight and giving us the good trouble. Tasks for my pet Tax, please accept a picture of our two rescues, Blue and Whiskey, as they are listening to a special story from their mama. Blue is the big guy, a pity golden retriever Akita mix. He was abandoned in a forest preserve and we adopted him just a few days after saying goodbye to our first rescue. Pity. He is my heart. A big mama's boy who brings me a toy and wiggles his butt every morning in a happy hello. The smaller is Whiskey, a husky pit mix that never stops moving, jumping, digging, or licking. She's exhausting. But she and Blue are best buds and she's a happy girl. Yeah, I can tell who your favorite is here. Anonymous. 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