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Hosted by MeidasTouch founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas, national trial lawyer strategist, Michael Popok, and former Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Legal AF (Legal Analysis Friends) is a hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at this week’s most compelling developments at the intersection of law and politics. Executive Produced by Meidas Media Network. Enjoy new full-length episodes every Wednesday and Sunday ...
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American Democracy is not promised to us and, with all the forces working against it, saving it will take a level of work most people aren’t ready for. The Politics Girl Podcast is here to give people a reason to care and a reason to fight. Our goal is to inspire. To instill in people a true understanding of what this country COULD be, if the right people were fighting for it, and what it WILL be if they don’t. It’s a political podcast yes, but more than that, it’s a podcast about America’s ...
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Trump DOJ Accidentally Confesses It Lied to Judge
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Open warfare has broken out in the Trump Administration as the Dept of Transportation goes on the pubic attack of its own lawyers at the DOJ office in New York, claiming that they are trying to intentionally sabotage Trump’s own case against New York State by intentionally filing on the Court’s public filing system a secret confidential memo of cli…
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Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo on the top rated Legal AF podcast, discuss: Judge Xinis' scathing new order against Trump putting his Administration well on the way to another contempt finding; the Supreme Court and 4th Circuit rulings rocking Trump's world as he reconsiders his losing fight with Courts and the Supreme Court because the p…
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Trump Sets Major Trap for Himself in Supreme Court
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One thing that is reliable is Trump posting things on social media that undermine his Administration’s legal positions and turn off the Supreme Court, which has the fate of his Administration in its hands. Now Trump is claiming that our 5th Amendment privileges and Due Process constitutional guarantees before some is imprisoned is a nuisance that s…
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Trump Mistake Lands Him Devastating New Lawsuit
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Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, is not waiting around to see if Trump made another “ooops” and mistake in threatening to cut off another billion dollars in research grants, and has had enough, filing a new lawsuit today, and hiring 2 attorneys to stop the assault on academic freedom: Bill Burck who is currently the Trump Organization’s chi…
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Trump Gets Blasted in Open Court for Willful Violation
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In a scathing rebuke in the Abrego-Garcia “lawless seizure” case, Federal Judge Paula Xinis has just ruled that the Trump Administration and its lawyers’ “bad faith” to “willfully evade” their court-ordered obligations using “specious arguments,” "ends now.” Michael Popok examines the hearing and the judge’s new order that puts the Trump Administra…
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Whoa! Trump Admin Exposed Falsifying SCOTUS Ruling
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Well, if you are the Trump Administration and you don’t like a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against you on immigration issues, just change the words in it and say you are complying! The Trump Administration was just caught lying to a Federal Judge and in its discovery submissions in the Armando Abrego Garcia case, giving Judge Xinis new grounds to find…
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Trump Smacked Down by Judge Who Haunted Him in the Past
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A senior federal judge in NY who knows Trump well from having ruled against him in the E Jean Carroll case, just told the DOJ in ruling against them on the attempted deportation and removal of undocumented to El Salvador, the he does accept their “flexible” approach to a detainee’s Due Process Rights and finds their approach to human suffering, the…
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Enemies: Both Foreign & Domestic. A Conversation with Janessa Goldbeck
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Will the American president use the American military on the American people? The fact that’s even in question indicates how far down the road towards autocracy this country has gone. Does that mean we’re helpless? Is there nothing we can do? What about the military itself? Will it, or can it, do anything? Join me and Janessa Goldbeck, CEO of VetVo…
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Trump Rocked by Scandal Spiraling Out of Control
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We may be watching the greatest meltdown in Pentagon leadership history, with Pete Hegseth needing 3 different baby sitters and constant White House coverups, just to screw up his job and our national security on a daily basis. Michael Popok reports on a new exposé by the Pentagon’s former chief spokesperson and new reporting that Hegseth uses his …
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Trump Backstabbed by His Most Loyal Supreme Court Justice
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Against the backdrop of polling finding that almost 60% of America would impeach Trump if he doesn’t comply with the Supreme Court’s orders, Justice Alito issues his dissent to the Court’s 7-2 decision to block Trump from continuing to deport the undocumented without due process and notice in a Texas processing center. Michael Popok reports that ev…
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Trump Attacks Top GOP Judge as His Plans Blow Up
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The Trump White House—led, no doubt, by Trump’s chief immigration henchman, Stephen Miller—has taunted the Supreme Court, the Fourth Circuit, and all Americans with a sophomoric yet chilling new social media post from the official White House account. The post declares that they will not comply with the Supreme Court’s commands regarding due proces…
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Ben Meiselas & Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast and tonight debate: how federal judges up to the Supreme Court are addressing a lawless presidency; the Supreme Court’s late night surprising stay to block Trump deporting more people to El Salvador; Judge Wilkinson’s scathing yet soaring criticism of the Administration while approvin…
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Trump Stunned as Right-Wing Judge Turns Against Him
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The earth moved this week, with Trump losing the support of one of the lions of the Federalist, Republican and Conservative movements, Judge Harvie Wilkinson, who warns America in a scathing rebuke of Trump from his perch on the 4th Circuit, that Trump could try to deport US CITIZENS to foreign prisons without due process, a wake up call to stop Tr…
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Newsom Shocks Trump with Sneak Attack Lawsuit
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California Governor Newsom, who presides over the 5th largest economy in the world, is taunting Trump with a new filing, asking him “what are you scared of” as Trump tries to run away from a federal suit filed in California and assigned to a Biden appointed judge to declare his tariff policies unconstitutional, and trying to find a Trump judge on t…
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Furious Judge Checkmates Trump with Perfect Remedy
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Chief Judge Boesberg is not only strongly considering appointing a “private attorney” like Jack Smith to prosecute the Trump Administration’s “willful” criminal contempt of court, but is now considering whether to retain jurisdiction over the case to make sure the undocumented are given the due process “notice” our Constitution demands, as Trump fi…
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Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo, on the top-rated Legal AF podcast, debate a judge’s decision to hold the Trump Administration in contempt of court with a referral for prosecution imminent. They also break down another federal judge preparing to do the same over Trump’s refusal to secure the release of Armando Garcia, his losing legal bat…
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Judge Makes Major Ruling on Trump Criminal Contempt
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In breaking and startling news, the Chief Judge of the DC Court has found the Trump Administration for the first time in CRIMINAL CONTEMPT of Court, and will make a “referral for prosecution” for willfully disobeying his order to ground the planes with prisoners bound for the super max prison in El Salvador. Michael Popok explains that when, not if…
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Harvard Puts the Dagger in Trump with Lawsuit Tsunami
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Harvard’s faculty has turned up the heat with a new Injunction lawsuit filed in Massachusetts Federal Court against the Trump Administration and its efforts to cut off $9 billion in federal funding to violate Harvard’s academic freedom and First Amendment rights, as Harvard hires the Trump Organization’s own “ethics counsel”’s firm to defend agains…
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Scared Trump Makes Major Filing in Carroll Judgment
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Trump is trying to use taxpayer dollars and the power of the “United States of America” to get him out from under an almost $100 million dollar civil jury judgment in favor of E. Jean Carroll for sex abuse and defamation and have the US intervene in the case to nullify the jury’s verdict in a new filing. Michael Popok updates the audience on the $5…
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Trump Throws Tantrum After SCOTUS Ruling… Swirls Down the Drain!
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The Supreme Court gave Trump a one-line “out” about his foreign affairs powers, and Trump is now flipping the script and making the illegal removal and deportation of Armando Abrego Garcia all about Trump’s foreign affairs powers as he now declares that the US is powerless to tell El Salvador what to do with Mr. Garcia, as Trump and the dictator of…
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How Are We All This Dumb?: A Conversation with David Pakman
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America appears to be in free fall and 30% of the country seems on board for a million decisions they didn’t vote for and will only hurt them? How is that possible? David Pakman joins us to talk about his new book, instant New York Times bestseller, The Echo Machine: How Right Wing Extremism Created a Post Truth America, which addresses how the fal…
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Trump Rejects Supreme Court in New Filing… Contempt?!
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The Trump Administration has declared war on the Constitution and the Supreme Court over the return from an El Salvador jail of the illegally removed and deported Armando Abrego Garcia. New court filings have told a Federal Judge whose order was affirmed by the Supreme Court 9-0 that it has no duty to take any steps to discuss with El Salvador his …
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Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back with the Top 10 ranked Legal AF podcast, and tonight debate: why the Trump Administration is refusing to abide by a Supreme Court ruling against them on deportation and what the courts can do about it; the Trump DOJ having to admit that they have had to dismiss the indictment against a purported MS-13 drug ga…
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Trump Feels the Wrath of Federal Judge After SCOTUS Loss
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Legal AF’s Michale Popok dives into the latest legal showdown between Trump and Judge Xinis, exploring how the Supreme Court’s order empowered Xinis to take bold action, as Trump refuses to back down from this high-stakes battle. Reverse hair loss with @iRestorelaser and get $625 off with the code LEGALAF at https://irestorelaser.com/LEGALAF! #ires…
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Pissed Off Judge Unleashes Fury at Trump for Violation
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Hell hath no fury, like a Federal Judge just affirmed by the United States Supreme Court, and the Trump Administration and its hapless DOJ representative, Drew Ensign, found that out a new hearing about what steps the Trump Administration is taking to get Armando Abrego Garcia, illegally deported and removed, back from El Salvador. Michael Popok re…
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Trump gets Major Loss from SCOTUS and Can't Handle It
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There are 5 shocking parts of the new Supreme Court decision affirming that a “leftist” “radical” trial judge was right on the money, and affirming her order that the Trump Administration “facilitate” the return of an illegally deported and removed Armando Abrego Garcia. Michael Popok takes a close look at the 9-0 decision, explains why it doesn’t …
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