University of Texas School of Law faculty bio, Molly M. Claflin Subcommittee Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel...
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Molly M. Claflin Adjunct Professor Molly Claflin is a DC-based attorney at the intersection of law, crisis communications, and public policy specializing in high-stakes and high-profile matters. She has experience managing investigations for the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and a major international law firm, and she has provided legal and policy analysis for NPR, the Washington Post, Slate, Bloomberg, Time Magazine, and others. Featured Work Article How Congress Can Finally Get All the Records of Abuse That Trump Kept Secret Article Congress Now Has More Power to Shed Light on Trump’s Abuses of Power Molly Claflin is a DC-based attorney specializing in high-profile government investigations and crisis management. After graduating from Stanford Law School, Claflin moved to Chicago, Illinois to do crisis management for the 2008 Obama campaign. Following the campaign, she spent more than five years at Gibson Dunn, where she focused on congressional investigations, securities litigation, and internal investigations. Since that time, Claflin has worked for both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. She was hired as the Senate Judiciary Committee's first full-time investigative counsel, where she managed investigations including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails and candidate Donald Trump's campaign connections to Russia. In the House of Representatives, she served as Deputy Staff Director on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, where she managed the team investigating financial fraud in coronavirus relief programs. Her team's work there resulted in multiple prosecutions and enforcement actions, and hundreds of millions of dollars returned to U.S. taxpayers. Claflin most recently served as Special Counsel at the U.S. Department of State, under the Biden Administration, where she managed the Department's defense of congressional investigations into the Afghanistan withdrawal, U.S. efforts to curb foreign disinformation, China policy, and numerous others. Claflin has been widely recognized for her investigations work, and was awarded the Stevens Award by the Harry S. Truman Foundation for outstanding public service in the legal profession. She has also been named a French-American Foundation Young Leader, and is a 2003 Truman Scholar. year-2021 Article Congress Now Has More Power to Shed Light on Trump’s Abuses of Power Molly M. Claflin. “Congress Now Has More Power to Shed Light on Trump’s Abuses of Power.” (February 2, 2021). View online. Article How Congress Can Finally Get All the Records of Abuse That Trump Kept Secret Molly M. Claflin. “How Congress Can Finally Get All the Records of Abuse That Trump Kept Secret.” (February 2, 2021). View online. year-2020 Article Impeach Bill Barr Molly M. Claflin. “Impeach Bill Barr.” (September 23, 2020). View online. Article Exclusive: Obstruction At All Costs: The State Department’s Petty Document Fight with Congress Molly M. Claflin. “Exclusive: Obstruction At All Costs: The State Department’s Petty Document Fight with Congress.” (August 17, 2020). View online. Article House Democrats Should Be Preparing to Subpoena John Bolton Molly M. Claflin. “House Democrats Should Be Preparing to Subpoena John Bolton.” (January 10, 2020). View online. year-2019 Article Nancy Pelosi Is Right: Democrats Should Not Vote on an Impeachment Inquiry Yet Molly M. Claflin. “Nancy Pelosi Is Right: Democrats Should Not Vote on an Impeachment Inquiry Yet.” (October 9, 2019). View online. Article A Formal Vote to Authorize Impeachment Won’t Fix White House Obstruction — And Could Create More Roadblocks Molly M. Claflin. “A Formal Vote to Authorize Impeachment Won’t Fix White House Obstruction — And Could Create More Roadblocks.” (October 9, 2019). View online. Article Barr Must Give Congress Mueller’s Investigative Work, Not Just His Report Molly M. Claflin. “Barr Must Give Congress Mueller’s Investigative Work, Not Just His Report.” (April 2019). View online. fall 2026 Government Investigations fall 2025 Government Investigations
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