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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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38:53

The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode -...

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2025/11/12

The Intersection is back with a special Veteran’s day addition. Join Popok as he dissects the lates US Supreme Court decision that impacts 42 million hungry Americans; the Trump Administration’s efforts to get permission to beat First Amendment protestors; Trump finally admitting that he is likely to lose his Tariff case at the Supreme Court and is now blaming his lawyers about it; Trump’s efforts to hide a new scandal by firing the whistleblowers investigating one of his own; and so much more at

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15:58

Panicking Trump Lashes Out in Court over Blocked...

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2025/11/12

The Trump Administration isn’t just content with starving Americans they now want an appeals court to give them permission to beat them too, looking for an order to let Trump’s shock forces in Chicago to hit peaceful first amendment protestors including members of the press, clergy, veterans and others with their cars, fire rubber bullets and tear gas at them, tackle them and beat them. Michael Popok reports on Judge Ellis’s injunction and the emergency stay motion filed by the Trump

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22:01

Trump Accidentally Reveals Plan Once SCOTUS Hands Him...

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2025/11/12

Trump figured out that he’s been had at the US Supreme Court and is likely to lose all of his Tariffs, and spent the wee hours of the morning throwing his own DOJ and his Solicitor General John Sauer under the bus and blaming them for the likely incoming loss. Michael Popok explains that the 12:37 am posting of his “truth” about the case is a confession that he is likely to lose as he scrambles to not refund hundreds of billions to the American people who have paid his tariffs with higher

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16:56

Supreme Court Makes Important Ruling, Case Law...

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2025/11/11

In breaking news, there are not 4 votes on the US Supreme Court to overturn the Constitutional right for people to marry who they choose and same sex marriage, as the Supreme Court refuses to hear on appeal the case of Kim Davis, the clerk who wouldn’t issue marriage licenses to same sex couples on religious grounds. Michael Popok explains how Davis, the stalking horse of the MAGA right-wing religious zealots who sought to have the Court follow Justice Thomas’ call to have same sex marriage as a

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18:02

Trump Trapped at SCOTUS as Appeal Backfires

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2025/11/10

Democrats continue to fight in several courts to ensure that 1 in 8 Americans below the poverty line including 16 million children aren’t starved to death by Trump and MAGA, even as MAGA continues to make them political hostages while negotiating for the government to be reopened. Michael Popok dissects the masterful order of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that set in motion in the last few hours, the First Circuit’s ruling late last night denying Trump the power to cut off remaining November SNAP

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16:31

Trump Suffers Total Wipeout in Court in Worst Week Yet

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2025/11/10

Election night was not the only wipeout of Trump and MAGA, as his DOJ suffered an epic losing streak just this week alone of 8 different losses in 7 different courts. Michael Popok breaks down the emergency restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, permanent injunctions, jury verdicts, and compel orders issued from Sea to Shining Sea, or at least from Rhode Island to Oregon, with stops in Virginia, DC, South Carolina, Illinois and Oregon. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network

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83:11

Legal AF Full Episode - 11/8/2025

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2025/11/09

Trump’s callous attack on the poor, and his failed economy have been brought into stark relief by the Shutdown. And as Trump makes clueless statements about a “golden era” for the economy, the voters know better. That attack on struggling Americans and those that oppose his policies made their way into Federal Courts across America this past week, as Trump and his DOJ suffered losses in 9 cases in 8 courts from Rhode Island to Oregon. Michael Popok solo hosts the Legal AF Podcast tonight to brief

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15:01

Judge Issues Fatal Blow to Trump Shutting Down Plan

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2025/11/09

A Trump appointed Judge just PERMANENTLY BLOCKED his use of the National Guard in Portland Oregon after a 3 day trial, finding that he had no right under Congress’ statute to take over and deploy the National Guard because there was no “rebellion” on the streets of Oregon, nor was ICE unable to execute its immigration and detention policy because of basically peaceful protests. Michael Popok dissects the 106 page order, and predicts Trump’s next steps including an appeal to the 9th Circuit and to

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14:10

SCOTUS Makes Late-Night Emergency Ruling on Trump Plan

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2025/11/08

In a strange twist, but in the interest of procedural fairness, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, of all people, has granted the Trump Administration a short emergency Administrative Stay blocking the payment of the remaining $3 billion in SNAP payments but only to give the lower appeals court time to fully consider whether a stay blocking the remaining payments is proper at all which should happen in the next few days. Of course, that’s cold comfort to the 42 million Americans waiting on a full food

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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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