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Legal AF by MeidasTouch

MeidasTouch Network

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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18:26

Trump Hit with Knockout Ruling and Runs to Supreme Court

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2025/11/08

Trump and his Administration won’t rest until he punishes the poor and hungry in America to death, first lying to a federal judge that they couldn’t make “Immediate” partial SNAP anti hunger payments to 42 million Americans for their November food benefits (they could and did in just hours); and then after paying out partial payments, running to the United States Supreme Court to demand an emergency stay so they can continue to screw impoverished Americans out of the rest of the anti starvation

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16:52

Trump Folds Big Time as Courts Force His Hand

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2025/11/08

Trump folded again in the face of a Federal Court emergency order, and Trump finally figured out that starving the poor was bad for him politically. Popok reports on a fast moving story that tonight, because of the actions of Blue State Attorneys’ General and Public interest groups and their 2 suits, tthe Government is immediately paying the full $8 billion in SNAP anti hunger payments today to 42 hungry and disadvantaged Americans including 16 million children. Remember to subscribe to ALL the

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15:28

Supreme Court Exposed from the Inside as Justice Goes...

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2025/11/08

In a scorching dissent for the ages, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson not only excoriates the MAGA 6 for failing to protect a fragile group of Americans—the Transgender community— with their order allowing Trump to “out them” in the passport process by only being able to select the gender they were born with — but tells her colleagues on the far right that they have forgotten what it means to be a Supreme Court justice and what the assignment is when Trump files an “emergency” appeal. Popok dissects

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14:48

Trump Skewered by Fed Up Judge as Own Words Backfire

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2025/11/07

The Trump Admin. has doubled down on tormenting the hungry and poor in America and holding them as political hostages, immediately appealing a new emergency ruling issued this afternoon by Federal Chief Judge McConnell in Rhode Island to force Trump to pay 42 million hungry Americans their November SNAP payments to live. Michael Popok reports on the efforts by Democratic Attorneys General —including NYAG Tish James—and Democracy Forward to force Trump to care about Americans in emergency court

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13:25

Trump Panics and Scrambles to Save Himself from...

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2025/11/07

Trump would rather starve 42 million Americans and is asking an appellate court to let him do that, than comply with an emergency injunction requiring him to care about the least fortunate in America, and make $8 billion in SNAP anti-hunger payments to Americans below the poverty line, including 16 million babies and children. Michael Popok reports on Trump’s DOJ filing an emergency motion to allow Trump to let people die of starvation, as he tries to fast track the case to the friendly confines of

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16:57

Trump DOJ Laughed Out of Court as Jury Acquits

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2025/11/07

The long national nightmare is over— a DC federal jury acquitted, over sandwiches no less— the ridiculous federal criminal case brought by Trump’s DOJ against a former DOJ paralegal for tossing a Subway salami sandwich, mustard and onions and all, at a Customs and Border Patrol agent in protest. This is now the second time today that a federal officer was not believed in a court of law, and Popok ties it together with the string of losses in federal court Trump and his DOJ has suffered just this

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15:46

Federal Judge Issues Restraining Order on Trump for...

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2025/11/06

In breaking news, a fed up Federal Judge Ellis issued from the bench a 90 minute preliminary injunction ruling against Trump’s shock forces being used in Chicago to menace and attack members of the press, clergy, veterans and first amendment protestors of Trump’s immigration policy, and found that the chief of the operation for trump Greg Bovino, lied under oath about the need to fire tear gas at protestors. Michael Popok reports on Judge Ellis leading off the hearing by reading in full Carl

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80:40

Legal AF Full Episode - 11/5/2025

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2025/11/06

In addition to Trump’s and MAGA’s election night shellacking, Trump had a historically bad week in courtrooms around America. First Judge McConnell in Rhode Island issued a permanent injunction forcing Trump to fund infrastructure projects in Blue States; then Judge Immergut entered a preliminary injunction to block Trump’s use of the National Guard on the streets of Oregon; then Federal Judge Currie ordered the turn over off all grand jury materials about Lindsey Halligan’s role in prosecuting

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15:34

Emergency Hearing Called for Trump’s Fatal Court...

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2025/11/06

Trump and his Administration have, in the last 24 hours, already violated Chief Judge McConnell’s emergency temporary restraining order to force Trump to provide billions in SNAP food stamp payments to 42 million Americans no later than Wednesday. As Trump trolls the most underprivileged of Americans (the poor, disabled, Veterans, babies, children, and the elderly) who face starvation, declaring that he will violate the Court’s order and not make SNAP payments at all, public interest groups have

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15:37

Trump Suffers FATAL BLOW at Comey CRIMINAL Hearing

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2025/11/06

A federal judge came in “hot” off the bench and right at Trump’s DOJ and Lindsey Halligan, excoriating them for “indicting first and investigating second” in the Former FBI Dir. James Comey criminal case, and ordering them to immediately turn over tens of thousands of documents and ALL the secret grand jury transcripts to the defense ASAP. Michael Popok examines Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick, who used to be a Division Chief in Halligan’s once proud Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney’s Office,

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23:27

Supreme Court Rebukes Trump at Biggest Hearing Yet

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2025/11/05

Trump’s Tariffs are up for grabs, as his Administration met a very skeptical Supreme Court panel, including at least 2 votes he needs, Justices Amy Comey Barrett and Justice Gorsuch. Michael Popok reports on the 2.5-hour oral argument and his views on what could end up being a 5-4 decision that could scuttle the entirety of Trump’s economic and foreign policies before the midterms.Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network

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63:28

The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode -...

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2025/11/05

On a special Election Night in America episode of The Intersection Podcast, Michael Popok covers: Halligan’s “US Attorney” position on life support with new court order. Federal Judges jumping on Trump’s denying 42 million people anti-hunger finding. A federal Judge issues an emergency injunction against Trump and his abuse of the National Guard on Blue Cities. And the MAGA 6 are the hottest of seats firing tomorrow’s landmark Trump Tariff Supreme Court’s hearing.Lola Blankets: Get 35% off your

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16:07

Judge Busts Trump Prosecutor Hiding Evidence in Comey...

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2025/11/04

In breaking news, Senior Federal Judge Currie caught that Trump’s DOJ and Lindsey Halligan are trying to hide the grand jury transcripts and documents from her as she considers whether to disqualify Lindsey Halligan as the US Attorney and dismiss the indictments against Former FBI Director James Comey and NY AG Tish James. Michael Popok explains how bad trying to “spoon feed” and hide documents from a Federal Judge really is, as the AG Pam Bondi files “backdated” documents to try to save Halligan

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17:47

Trump Instantly Trapped by Emergency Order

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2025/11/04

In breaking news, Chief Judge McConnell has issued an EMERGENCY order against the Trump Administration to compel them to make billions of dollars of food stamp/SNAP program payments immediately to America’s most vulnerable population— 40 million babies, children, the elderly, and disabled, to prevent them from starving. Michael Popok catches a lie by the Treasury Secretary 24 hours after the order was issued on national television, and explains what will happen next in 2 different courts to prevent

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15:04

Judge Cannon gets Smacked Down by Her Boss for Trump...

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2025/11/03

Are we one big step closer to getting our hands on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s famous but never seen Volume 2 of his Final Report about Trump’s crimes at Mar a Lago? The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has blasted, in their own way, Trump-picked Judge Cannon, who is sitting on Volume 2 (including whether FBI Director Kash Patel was involved in the coverup). Michael Popok reports that the 11th has ordered Judge Cannon to decide whether she will release the Report to the public in the next 60 days,

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18:21

Trump Handed Massive Defeat by Federal Court for...

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2025/11/03

In breaking news, a Trump-appointed Federal Judge issued a late Sunday night emergency Preliminary Injunction continuing to block Trump’s attempts to violate State Sovereignty and federalize and deploy state militia/national guard on the streets of Portland. Michael Popok explains that the Judge will be entering the final Permanent Injunction against The Trump Administration by Friday, but because Trump refused to give her the time to issue her final order, she was forced to enter an emergency

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80:50

Legal AF Full Episode - 11/1/2025

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2025/11/02

Lindsey Halligan puts her law license in jeopardy, as lawyers and judges demand to see what she exactly told the grand jury when she obtained her first ever federal indictments against Trump’s political critics. The Supreme Court may be ready to reign in Trump and his abuse of power through the take over of State National Guard, with a landmark decision on the validity of Trump’s Tariffs coming up for an oral argument this week; Trump turns his back on fragile Americans facing starvation and holds a

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16:51

Trump Skewered by Judges before SNAP Deadline

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2025/10/31

In breaking news, two Obama-appointed judges—one in Rhode Island and one in Massachusetts—have issued emergency orders ensuring that $6 billion in contingency funds will flow to 40 million Americans living below the poverty line, many of them Trump voters, to prevent a catastrophic cutoff in food stamp payments. Michael Popok explains why there are two separate lawsuits on the same issue, how each judge approached the case differently, and why both rulings ultimately reach the same critical

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17:53

Trump Hit with Rude Awakening as Market Sends Him...

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2025/10/31

Trump’s efforts to use the Shutdown to put a blindfold around the Fed to deny it key economic data so it would fly blind during today’s Interest Rate setting meeting, backfired, as the Fed Chair said that when in a “fog” you “slow down” indicating that Trump screwed up his efforts to get a second rate cut next month by keeping the Government shut down. Michael Popok puts on his Wall Street goggles to take a look at today’s Federal Open Markets Committee Meeting results and what it says about

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14:40

Trump Trapped as Judge Orders All Grand Jury Docs be...

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2025/10/31

In breaking news, a South Carolina Federal Judge who will decide whether Trump’s novice prosecutor Lindsey Halligan will keep her judge, has issued a devastating order against Halligan, calling her “the indictment signer” only and refusing to use her US Attorney title, and ordering that “all documents relating” to her “participation in the grand jury” be turned over to the Judge. Michael Popok explains why this is so damning as the Judge considers whether to bounce Halligan AND whether she will

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