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Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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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 and

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81:22

Legal AF Full Episode - 7/12/2025

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2025/07/13

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back on the top-ranked Legal AF Podcast and take on: 1) The self immolation of MAGA and the Trump Administration over the Epstein "cover up" as major right wing influencers attack a clueless Trump about it and threaten his electoral chances at the midterm; 2) the revelation that the Trump DOJ, DHS and State Department have all been lying to federal judges about their control of the El Salvadoran prison used to house 200+ deportees and its impact on several pending

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21:16

Secret Incriminating Texts Inside Trump DOJ Surface!!!

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2025/07/12

Who says there is no proof that Trump’s DOJ senior leadership told its lawyers to tell federal judges to go “f’ themselves” about Trump’s deportation and removal activities?, After the DOJ’s Emil Bove denied in his appeals court judge confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he uttered those words, the whistleblower found real time texts that prove that he did and threw Pam Bondi under the boss for good measure. Michael Popok explains that if this doesn’t tank Bove’s appeal

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18:33

Wow! Supreme Court Justice Turns Against Court in Public

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2025/07/12

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in an act of defiance is taking on the Trump Administration and her MAGA Supreme Court justices not only in her scorching dissents about the Court’s complicity in having an uncontrollable President, but in her increasingly frequent public statements, including in the last 48 hours. Michael Popok explains why KBU’s dissents are the shining torch we need at this pivotal moment in our democrac,y and she provides the blueprint to get us out of this mess.Over 2 million

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18:33

Judge Gives Middle Finger to Supreme Court in Major...

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2025/07/12

We have our first class certification of Babies in federal court, , as a federal judge in New Hampshire has blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship denying executive order from taking effect on 7.27 (subject to appeal( by figuring out a novel way to beat the Supreme Court and Trump as its own game: A baby class action! Michael Popok briefs the Meidas and Legal AF audiences on the new nationwide class action order and how fast this will end up with the Supreme Court. Keep American farming going by

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18:00

Trump Gets Ruling He Feared in Appeals Court

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2025/07/12

E Jean Carroll, who holds almost $100 million in judgments against Trump for being sexually abused and constantly defamed by him, just won again in a pivotal appeals case. Ms. Carroll, with her intellectual fortitude and strength of character, shows us how to beat Trump like a bad habit, as she puts her cases on the doorstep of the US Supreme Court. Check out the LAF video with E Jean Carroll here: https://youtu.be/q5gL3H1tuZ8 For 15% off your order, head to https://SimplerHairColor.com/LEGALAF

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87:59

Legal AF Full Episode - 7/9/2025

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2025/07/10

Dina Doll and Karen Friedman Agnifilo anchor the top-ranked law and politics podcast Legal AF, and break down this week’s biggest legal and political bombshells at the intersection of law and democracy, including: 1) Trump’s ICE show-of-force stunt in Los Angeles and how Mayor Karen Bass is preparing a potential lawsuit that could challenge the legality of the operation; 2) the Supreme Court quietly reshaping labor rights with a mass layoff ruling issued through the shadow docket; 3) a federal judge

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50:06

The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode -...

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2025/07/09

Michael Popok is back at the Intersection with breaking news at the hot corner of law and politics and tackles: 1) Trump's Big Beautiful Bill's attempts to defund and put Planned Parenthood out of business being blocked by a Big Beautiful Temporary Restraining Order; 2) Judge Xinis telling the DOJ, effectively, that they can't be trusted and ordering that they go under oath in the witness box this week about the Abrego Garcia case; 3) how one Federal Judge in Boston is single handily blocking the

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80:59

Legal AF Full Episode 7/5/2025

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2025/07/06

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok anchor the top-ranked law and politics podcast Legal AF, and cover this week's most important breaking news as they take on: 1) the importance of the Abrego Garcia case and the attempts by a Tennessee and Maryland federal judges to thwart Trump's abuse of power; 2) the Supreme Court flipping the script on due process rights of those facing deportation or removal; 3) CBS and Paramount bending the knee and proposing a settlement with Trump that guts the credibility of

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72:46

Legal AF Full Episode - 7/2/2025

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2025/07/03

On the top ranked Legal AF podcast, Michael Popok is joined with guest anchor, attorney and activist Rachel Cohen, sitting in for KFA, who is also joining the Legal AF YouTube Channel as a regular contributor. Popok and Rachel take on: the different forms that defiance against this Administration can take including taking personal responsibility to actively participate in our participatory democracy; how to weaponize and turn the tables on Trump's attempt to weaponize the DOJ and whitewash Jan6;

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15:29

Election Win Sticks the Dagger in Trump & MAGA in...

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2025/07/02

In stunning fashion, the 4-3 liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court just struck down a 176-year-old ban on abortion on the state books, pushed by MAGA to deny a woman her reproductive freedom, and declared that abortion is legal in Wisconsin and protected by more modern state statutes. Michael Popok explains how elected State Supreme Courts are on the front line to protect democracy, and Wisconsin provides the roadmap on how to resist at the state level.Get 20% off when you go to

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56:57

The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode -...

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2025/07/02

Michael Popok on his new podcast The Intersection is back to brief the audience on breaking legal and political news. Join him as he tackles: 1) how the Trump budget bill can be used offensively to make Trump and MAGA pay for their policies; 2) how federal judges are crafting new injunctions to do an end run around the Supreme Court's decision, including a new injunction to stop the destruction of our public health services; 3) a federal judge who does not believe the Trump Administration when it

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12:23

Trump Nearly Blows It in Sham Lawsuit

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2025/07/02

Almost missing the deadline, the Trump Administration has gotten around to appealing Judge Howell’s permanent injunction to stop Trump’s abuse of law firms — this time Perkins Code — and to block Trump from declaring them a “national security threat” as payback for some of their lawyers being involved in the Mueller investigation. Michael Popok looks at the new notice of appeal and lays out what happens next. Subscribe: @LegalAFMTN Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to

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16:56

SCOTUS & Trump Get Outfoxed in Shadow Court Instantly

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2025/07/01

Forget the “academic” or the “hypothetical” — groups and lawyers that oppose Trump’s unconstitutional attack on Birthright Citizenship live in the real world, and in real time within hours of the Supreme Court’s Friday’s ruling forcing them to refile their cases as class actions seeking emergency injunctions, refiled their cases in Maryland first and then New Hampshire. But now that there are 2 almost identical cases seeking identical declarations from the federal courts that Trump’s executive

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14:56

Supreme Court Walks Right Into Instant Checkmate

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2025/07/01

Moving at almost the speed of light and following Justice Sotomayor’s “direction”, public interest groups litigating to protect Birthright Citizenship have just hours after the Supreme Court ruled against them, filed a new motion for class action certification and for temporary injunction with a Maryland federal judge. Michael Popok explains how this is exactly what Justice Sotomayor called for in her dissent on Friday, and sets up a battle over the summer in the Supreme Court over whether

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12:35

Judge Brutally Outsmarts Trump in Major Case

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2025/07/01

In breaking news, Abrego Garcia has asked for and received an order that keeps him longer in federal detention to protect him from the Trump Administration deporting or removing him in the middle of the night away from Federal Court jurisdiction. The irony was not lost on Magistrate Judge Holmes who has ordered that Abrego Garcia remain in protective custody until his July 16th hearing before Judge Crenshaw and beyond. Michael Popok reports on this turn of affairs of a jailed person begging the

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13:11

Trump Braces to Lose Millions After Fatal Court Ruling

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2025/07/01

E Jean Carroll is about to beat Trump for the third time in front of the Second Circuit Appeal, having lost last week on his bid to have the “United States of America” substitute in to avoid paying her the $83.5 million jury verdict judgement for sexually abusing and defaming her, and now about to lose in front of of the same judges on his argument that he has “presidential immunity” to defame her. Michael Popok puts it all together and what happens next at the Supreme Court on his latest hot

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19:06

Trump Lawyers Finally Face Fatal Penalty

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2025/07/01

What do Trump lawyers Alina Habba and Ken Chesebro have in common? No, not that, but now one has been disbarred from practicing law in NY while the other has received a stinging new bar complaint seeking her disbarment in NJ. Michael Popok outlines the case against Trump’s political hack turned US Attorney for NJ (Habba) as outlined in the new bar grievance against her, and explains why Chesebro, one of the leaders of the “fake elector” scheme to steal the election from Biden, just lost his bar

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18:00

Trump Instantly Rebuked After Lawsuit Threat

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2025/07/01

Trump, to try to distract from the fact that he has lost track of Iran’s uranium stockpile altogether, and failed to take out a 4th hardened mountain facility, is threatening to sue CNN and the New York Times for “defamation.” Michael Popok takes a look at the new demand letter, the lawyer behind it, and both media outlets telling Trump and his lawyers to pound sand as they stand by their reporting that the initial top secret reports found that Iran’s nuclear program was only set back a few months

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91:20

Legal AF Full Episode - 6/28/2025

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2025/06/29

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok host the top rated Legal AF podcast and take on: 1) Governor Newsom's $787 million dollar defamation suit against Fox; 2) the aftermath and next steps after the Supreme Court told federal courts they have no power to issue nationwide injunctions in most cases, including about birthright citizenship; 3) the Supreme Court's siding with religious groups over the First Amendment; 4) Trump lawyers being disbarred (again) and being the subject of bar grievance complaints;

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14:56

Supreme Court Walks Right Into Instant Checkmate

Legal AF by MeidasTouch ·

2025/06/28

Moving at almost the speed of light and following Justice Sotomayor’s “direction”, public interest groups litigating to protect Birthright Citizenship have just hours after the Supreme Court ruled against them, filed a new motion for class action certification and for temporary injunction with a Maryland federal judge. Michael Popok explains how this is exactly what Justice Sotomayor called for in her dissent on Friday, and sets up a battle over the summer in the Supreme Court over whether

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