Adam Klasfeld

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The Kennedy Center's Trump-installed Board MUST produce financial information for its 2026 fiscal year, a federal judge rules.

Judge Cooper "highly doubts that the Center has operated without core financial reporting over the past year."

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As for burden, the Court highly doubts that the Center has operated without core financial reporting over the past year. Surely the Center has ready access to periodic income statements, balance sheets, cash flow reports, and budget documents that reflect actual financial performance over FY 2026, not just projections. The Center should be able to gather these materials from existing sources without having to query its “updated” financial system for bespoke reports. If that is not the case, standardized reports will do. So, although Plaintiff’s exhaustive requests are unduly broad given the expedited timetable, the Court hereby orders Defendants to produce FY 2026 financial statements of the nature noted above sufficient to show the Center’s financial performance and condition over FY 2026.
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"By the way, Delcy Rodriguez is still doing this to dissidents, and we're still sending dissidents back to Venezuela as we prop up Rodriguez as a puppet."

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Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores face a new indictment adding a count of conspiring to torture U.S. citizens through "electric shock, asphyxiation, rape, forced nudity, prolonged isolation, starvation, punishment cells, and [...] threats to harm and kill victims' families, including children."

To undermine Venezuelan democracy and entrench themselves in power , these same leaders presided over a system of repression that relied on violence against political opposition , arbitrary detention , and the torture of detainees, including United State s citizens. That torture included electric shock , asphyxiation , rape, forced nudity , prolonged isolation , starvation , punishment cells , and psychological torture , such as threats to harm and kill victims ' families , including children .
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Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores face a new indictment adding a count of conspiring to torture U.S. citizens through "electric shock, asphyxiation, rape, forced nudity, prolonged isolation, starvation, punishment cells, and [...] threats to harm and kill victims' families, including children."

To undermine Venezuelan democracy and entrench themselves in power , these same leaders presided over a system of repression that relied on violence against political opposition , arbitrary detention , and the torture of detainees, including United State s citizens. That torture included electric shock , asphyxiation , rape, forced nudity , prolonged isolation , starvation , punishment cells , and psychological torture , such as threats to harm and kill victims ' families , including children .
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Wynn's Law remains undefeated.

Contrapoints saying "They don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly 'critique' power."
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Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.

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The Trump-installed Board opposed the unsealing of the report.

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BREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl

ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [74] Motion to Unseal is GRANTED IN PART. The Clerk of the Court shall unseal in full the [65-2] Delta PowerPoint. Defendants shall submit to Plaintiff and the Court any proposals for narrowly tailored redactions to the [65-1] JLL Plan, accompanied by particularized and substantial written justifications, no later than October 14, 2026. Plaintiff shall file any response to the proposed redactions no later than October 19, 2026. The Court will then review the proposals and rule by separate order.
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BREAKING

A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure.

The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint.

Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl

ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [74] Motion to Unseal is GRANTED IN PART. The Clerk of the Court shall unseal in full the [65-2] Delta PowerPoint. Defendants shall submit to Plaintiff and the Court any proposals for narrowly tailored redactions to the [65-1] JLL Plan, accompanied by particularized and substantial written justifications, no later than October 14, 2026. Plaintiff shall file any response to the proposed redactions no later than October 19, 2026. The Court will then review the proposals and rule by separate order.
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"The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau’s policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint."

NBC's indefatigable @ryanjreilly.com reports buff.ly/bBe5Xnz

buff.lyFBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protestersThe former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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The disqualified, loyalist US Attorneys pursued Trump's political agenda. * Halligan charged Tish James and James Comey. * Sarcone investigated James. * Habba targeted Dems performing immigration oversight. * Essayli claimed election fraud on TV. Rogoff did none of that — so Trump wants him out.

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Trump's failed attempts to install loyalists so far. Virginia: Lindsey Halligan New York: John Sarcone New Jersey: Alina Habba Nevada: Sigal Chattah California: Bill Essayli His failed attempt to fire a qualified, lawfully court-appointed prosecutor. Washington: Roger Rogoff

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Trump's failed attempts to install loyalists so far. Virginia: Lindsey Halligan New York: John Sarcone New Jersey: Alina Habba Nevada: Sigal Chattah California: Bill Essayli His failed attempt to fire a qualified, lawfully court-appointed prosecutor. Washington: Roger Rogoff

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Let's not lose sight about the big picture here. Courts keep telling Trump that he's defying the constitution—trying to end-run Congress and the judiciary—to keep his top prosecutors in half a dozen states. All to have loyalists decide who to criminally charge with what in a DOJ under his thumb.

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Here's the crux of the ruling blocking Trump from firing court-appointed US Attorney Roger Rogoff in Seattle: Allowing it would "upend" the constitutional order. Trump's tried to end-run Senate confirmation for US Attorneys in five states and failed. Now, he's gunning for the judiciary's power.

Allowing the President to fire a court-appointed U.S. Attorney would upend the framework created by the Constitution and the statutory framework, which together balances the President’s right to appoint and the Senate’s right to confirm. Allowing the President to fire a court-appointed U.S. Attorney also eliminates the incentive to nominate a candidate that can be conferred by the Senate—in other words, bypassing the requirement that the Executive and Legislative branches work together to nominate and confirm the U.S. Attorney.
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Here's the crux of the ruling blocking Trump from firing court-appointed US Attorney Roger Rogoff in Seattle: Allowing it would "upend" the constitutional order. Trump's tried to end-run Senate confirmation for US Attorneys in five states and failed. Now, he's gunning for the judiciary's power.

Allowing the President to fire a court-appointed U.S. Attorney would upend the framework created by the Constitution and the statutory framework, which together balances the President’s right to appoint and the Senate’s right to confirm. Allowing the President to fire a court-appointed U.S. Attorney also eliminates the incentive to nominate a candidate that can be conferred by the Senate—in other words, bypassing the requirement that the Executive and Legislative branches work together to nominate and confirm the U.S. Attorney.
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Lucky break for Hearn's prosecutors?

After dismissing the case with prejudice, Judge Edelman, in the last footnote, declines to rule one way or another on whether feds acted in bad faith.

Prosecutors have an excuse not to pursue a lousy case and avoid a damning finding. buff.ly/wu0xyjN

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Scathing from Judge Edelman: Given his first indictment, the notion that the grand jury process would protect David Hearn from another "meritless, politically driven prosecution" is nothing short of "facetious."

Given the process that led to the Indictment in this case, Mr. Hearn and the public cannot view the promise that a future grand jury would protect him against a meritless, politically driven prosecution at some point in the future as anything short of facetious ‘The government indicted Mr. Hearn at a near-record pace, with the grand jury voting on the charge less than two weeks after his arrest. At the time the Indictment was returned, some of the government's own initial conclusions as to the origins of the damage to the Reflecting Pool’s liner were equivocal at bes
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