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Top Legal Experts REACT to more horrible rulings from Supreme Court and Jan 6 Hearing Jul 03, 2022

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On today’s Legal AF Ben Meiselas is recording from Cocula, Jalisco and is joined by Karen Friedman Agnifolo with Popok on break. There may be chickens in the backyard where Ben is recording, and there are definitely chickens and radical right extremist fascists on the Supreme Court. Radical right extremism defines the MAGA movement as we’ve seen in the Jan 6 hearings and now defines the majority of the Trump MAGA Court and the decisions they are making.

First, Meiselas and Agnifolo discuss the most recent Jan 6 Emergency Hearing and Agnifolo (the former number 2 prosecutor in the Manhattan DA office) analyzes it from the perspective of a prosecutor and what charges can be brought against Trump.

Meiselas and Agnifolo go on to analyze decisions this week where the Supreme Court severely limited the separation of church and state, a decision where the Supreme Court struck down the ability of the EPA to fight climate change, and the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a case about the independent state legislature doctrine with devastating implications.

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Top Legal Experts REACT to BOMBSHELL Jan 6 Hearing and other breaking legal news Jun 30, 2022

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On this special midweek edition of LegalAF x MeidasTouch, the top-rated podcast covering law and politics, anchored by national trial attorney and strategist, Michael Popok and former prosecutor and leading criminal defense attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo, discuss

1. Day 6 of the January 6 Committee Hearing, including Cassidy

Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony and whether Trump is implicated criminally by his knowledge that his supporters were armed and dangerous.

2. The DOJ dawn raid of Jeffrey Clarke’s home coordinated with the execution of a search warrant against John Eastman’s iPhone as he was leaving a restaurant, and what it all means for the criminal investigations.

3. The Supreme Court’s second Church and State case in a week, ruling 6-3 in favor of a football coach who led compelled prayer groups and also wanted to pray at midfield at a public high school facility.

4. The sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Top legal experts REACT to this week’s radical Supreme Court decisions - Legal AF 6/25 Jun 26, 2022

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Anchored by MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, the top-rated news analysis podcast LegalAF x MeidasTouch is back for another hard-hitting look in “real time” at this week’s most consequential developments at the intersection of law and politics. On this special Supreme Court episode we are joined by our co-anchor Karen Friedman Agnifilo and discuss and analyze:

1. The Supreme Court’s ripping away a woman’s Constitutional right to an abortion in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Alito.

2. The Supreme Court’s finding a Constitutional right to conceal carry guns in public in a 6-3 decision written by Justice Thomas.

3. The Supreme Court burning down the separation between Church and State in a 6-3 decision written by Chief Justice Roberts.

4. Days 4 and 5 of the Jan6 Committee Hearings outlining Trump’s assault on his own Department of Justice, and on State election officials around the country as part of his coup to cling to power.

And so much more.

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Top Legal Experts DISSECT legal consequences of day 4 Jan 6th Hearing Jun 21, 2022

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1. Day 4 of the Jan6 hearings and its focus on Trump’s attempt to

criminally interfere with the Georgia election and the connection between Ginni Thomas and Arizona’s attempted fake elector scheme.

2. Whether the Jan6 hearings have provided future prosecutors with enough evidence to prove “criminal intent” against Trump beyond a reasonable doubt for federal and state crimes, and if so, whether prosecutors will indict Trump.

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Top legal experts REACT to biggest legal news of week | Legal AF 6/18/22 Jun 19, 2022

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1. Sessions 2 and 3 of the Jan6 Committee Hearings, including Republican witnesses Bill Stepian, Greg Jacob, Jason Miller, and Judge Luttig.

2. Whether “Presidential pocket pardons” are a thing and constitutional.

3. Bannon’s efforts to exclude references to Jan6 from his upcoming trial.

4. Developments in the Proud Boy conspiracy prosecution and the revelation of a planning memo to “infiltrate” and “occupy” 7 other Capitol buildings.

5. Google agreeing to settle a landmark “pay inequity” class action case for $118mm based on their past practices of discriminating against women in the workplace.

6. The continued attack on class actions and other representative and collective action type cases by the Supreme Court who instead strengthen corporate mandatory arbitration agreements.

And so much more.

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Top Legal Experts REACT to biggest legal news of the week | Legal AF 6/11/22 Jun 12, 2022

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1. The opening session of the Jan6 Special Select Committee’s indictment of Donald Trump and his seditions coup conspiracy.

2. Steve Bannon’s “revenge” subpoenas to the Jan6 Committee and other legislators, and whether they will be quashed for violating the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause.

3. The NYAG seeking further contempt orders against Trump for his destruction of documents concerning the 3-year long civil fraud investigation, and Trump and his children appealing the ruling requiring him to provide deposition testimony.

4. The DOJ obtaining a superseding indictment against the Proud Boys adding new seditious conspiracy criminal charges on the eve of the first Jan6 hearing session.

5. The US Supreme Court further restricting the creation of new civil actions against federal officers who cause injuries, siding with the Border Patrol who roughed up a bed and breakfast owner near the Canadian border.

6. A Republican candidate for Michigan Governor being arrested for his role in the Jan6 Insurrection, and why it has caused jealousy (?!?) among his fellow GQPrs.

And so much more.

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SPECIAL EDITION: REAL Law & Order; Prosecuting Predator Harvey Weinstein | Legal AF Jun 09, 2022

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The midweek edition of LegalAF x MeidasTouch, the top-rated podcast covering law and politics, is anchored by national trial attorney and strategist, Michael Popok and former prosecutor and leading criminal defense attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo. On this week’s special episode, KFA interviews top Manhattan DA sex crimes prosecutor Joan Illuzzi Orbon to discuss and have a rare inside look into two landmark prosecutions of the Manhattan DA’s office: the successful prosecution of Harvey Weinstein; and the infamous “cold case” of the killer of 6 year old Etan Patz, in 1979, who’s body was never found, both leading to convictions.

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Top Legal experts REACT live to biggest legal news of week Jun 05, 2022

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1. The Fulton County (Atlanta) Georgia District Attorney moving closer to an indictment of Trump and others for election fraud and racketeering as the Special Grand Jury begins hearing from over 50 expected witnesses.

2. Former key Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro very bad week, ending with his being indicted for Criminal Contempt of Congress and arrested by Federal Marshals as he was about to board a plane, and being separately subpoenaed by a second DC Federal grand jury to give testimony on other January 6-based matters.

3. The Manhattan DA’s office moving closer to indicting Steve Bannon for the “build the wall” foundation fraud and his using charitable monies for personal living expenses.

4. Trump’s “Special Prosecutor” John Durham spending $4.2mm of taxpayer dollars only to lose badly his only jury trial, and Michael Sussman being acquitted by a jury finding that he did not lie to the FBI’s general counsel when he provided a tip that the Trump Organization and Putin’s Alpha Bank were working together.

5. The Florida Supreme Court denying an appeal to throw out DeSantis’ racist, gerrymandered electoral maps before voting starts in June and August, handing the Republicans a 20-8 advantage in House seats for the Midterms.

6. The US Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision siding, for now, against Texas’s SB20 law that would prevent large social media platforms from “de-platforming” users and taking down offensive, racist, sexist, violent content and “disinformation.

And so much more.

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Social Media v 1A, Sussmann Acquitted & Navarro faces the Grand Jury Jun 02, 2022

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1. The Supreme Court’s surprising 5-4 decision against a Texas law that prevents social media companies from “de-platforming” for violation of “terms of service,” and from removing offensive content.

2. A federal criminal grand jury sitting in DC subpoenaing Peter Navarro--the first member of Trump’s inner most circle to testify and produce document.

3. A big loss by Trump’s “special counsel” John Durham in a federal jury trial against Democratic political powerhouse attorney Michael Sussmann

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Trump Loses Again, Musk Sued, and Courts Respond to Gun Control May 29, 2022

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1. Trump losing twice this week, with a New York Federal judge dismissing his case to stop the NYAG civil fraud investigation against him and the Trump Organization, and then a NY State appellate court ruling that Trump and his children must sit for the NYAG’s depositions.

2. Following the Buffalo and Robb Elementary mass murders, a New York Federal judge dismisses gun manufacturer, distributor, and retailers suit seeking to find that a 2020 NY state law imposing civil liability on them if they do not take reasonable steps to prevent the improper use of guns in New York.

3. Twitter shareholders filing a massive class action against Elon Musk in a Federal court in the Northern District of California for purported fraudulent stock manipulation and insider trading.

4. The Fourth Circuit Federal appellate court issuing the first ruling of its kind that the Amnesty Act of 1872 does not allow future “insurrectionists” and rebels to run for office in violation of the 14th Amendment.

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