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GOP’s Deadly Hypocrisy: Guns are in; Privacy Rights are out May 26, 2022

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1. The 19 Robb Elementary School children and 2 adults who died in a mass shooting this week, only 6 days after the massacre in Buffalo, and sensible gun control around the 2nd Amendment.

2. A North Dakota, Trump-appointed federal judge stops the Biden

Administration from enforcing the non-discrimination provisions of

Obama-care if an insurer refuses to pay for gender affirming health care based on the Q-anon lie that “babies are having sex change operations.”

3. The Manhattan DA’s office files papers to avoid dismissal of the criminal charges against the Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer.

4. New York sues New Jersey in a case to be heard by the United States Supreme Court sitting as a trial court over which state controls one of the world’s largest ports and cargo shipping businesses.

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Dumpster Fire GOP Causing MORE Legal Chaos! May 22, 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. This week, Ben and Popok discuss and analyze:

1. A Trump-appointed Louisiana Federal court judge siding with 24 Republican state attorneys general and stopping the Biden Administration from allowing asylum seekers to remain in the country while their application is reviewed.

2. The 5th Circuit deciding to deprive all federal agencies from using administrative law judges to hear cases of fraud and financial penalties, and finding their use over the last 50 years unconstitutional.

3. The Supreme Court siding with Ted Cruz and against bipartisan donor finance reform laws, and allowing candidates to make unlimited loans to their campaigns, and for their donors to pay them off after the candidate wins election

4. John Eastman’s late night filing to protect his emails with Trump and Trump’s inner circle from going to the Jan6 Committee on privilege grounds, and what it could mean for a future prosecution against Trump and others.

5. A Clinton-appointed Tennessee Federal court judge striking down Tennessee’s new anti-transgender bathroom signage criminal law as improper “compelled speech” under the First Amendment.

6. The latest developments in the final days of the January 6 Special Select Committee’s investigation, including the testimony of Bill Barr and Rudy Giuliani.

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Legal Experts REACT to Buffalo Massacre May 19, 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 episode, Popok and KFA focus on the Buffalo mass murder, its root causes and who’s to blame, the current state of gun control laws (state and federal) and the upcoming decision this summer by the Supreme Court concerning the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and what it means for the future.

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Legal Experts REACT to MAGA Madness May 15, 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, and occasionally something out of pop culture. This week, Ben and Popok discuss and analyze:

1. The Texas Supreme Court giving permission to the State to open child abuse investigations against parents of transgender children.

2. A bad week for Trump as his $10,000 a day fine for contempt may continue unless he can come up with affidavits and evidence that he’s in compliance a New York state court judge’s order regarding the NY Attorney General civil fraud investigation into his business affairs, and a New York federal judge cast doubt on Trump’s efforts to dismiss the NYAG investigation outright.

3. A state court judge in Florida, appointed by DeSantis, rejecting the Governor’s racist redistricting maps as too racist and violative of Florida’s Constitution.

4. Developments with the Jan6 Committee and its efforts to subpoena McCarthy and Jim Jordan to appear as it wraps up its work in advance of the June hearings.

5. A federal judge rejecting a plea deal for an insurrectionist named “Baked Alaska” because he refused to admit his guilt.

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Lawyers Prosecuted, Foreign Presidents Assassinated, & Insurrectionists go to Trial May 12, 2022

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1. The upcoming criminal trial this month of lobbyist and lawyer Michael Sussman prosecuted by Trump’s Special Prosecutor for allegedly lying to the FBI about whether he was working for the Clinton Campaign when he presented evidence to the FBI about a link between Trump and the Russians.

2. A Federal judge’s decision to move the main Oath Keeper/Stuart Rhodes trial to September in light of the Jan6 Committee’s gavel to gavel hearings in June.

3. The Department of Justice’s indictment and prosecution of more than 40 people who conspired to kidnap and assassinate the President of Haiti last July.

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The Extremist Supreme Court Overturning Roe, Twitter Beats Trump, and More! May 08, 2022

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1. The Supreme Court’s vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and 50 years of constitutional protection of a woman’s right to choose and what it means for the future.

2. A ruling and decision to find that Marjorie Taylor Greene was not an “insurrectionist” as that term is used in US Constitution, and will be on the ballot for re-election.

3. The guilty plea of a third Oath Keeper for seditious conspiracy and how his future testimony may connect Stewart Rhodes directly to Donald Trump.

4. The Supreme Court ruling 9-0 that Boston’s refusal to allow a Christian group to fly its flag over the statehouse on one of its 3 flagpoles violates the First Amendment, and a few days later the Satanic Temple applying to fly its flag in Boston too.

5. A Federal Judge dismissing Trump’s efforts to get back on Twitter and finding that Twitter “de-platforming” Trump did not violate the First Amendment because Twitter is not the government.

And so much more.

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Renowned Civil Rights Attorney Robbie Kaplan on the Overturning of Roe v. Wade May 05, 2022

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In a Special Edition of LegalAF x MeidasTouch, the top-rated law and politics podcast, anchors Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo are joined by special guest, Constitutional and Civil Rights Litigator, Roberta Kaplan, Esq., to analyze the disclosure this week that the Supreme Court voted in February to end a woman’s constitutional Right to Choose and overturn Roe v. Wade along with 50 years of legal precedent. We cover:

1. The leaked draft majority opinion draft by Justice Alito, and how it came to be.

2. Whether there is a chance that the draft opinion and individual Justice voting will change before the final decision is rendered.

3. If Alito’s draft is close to final, what happens next in State Houses and in Congress

4. Whether right-wing States can make criminals out of its residents who travel to Pro-Choice States for abortions.

5. Whether the Supreme Court has abdicated its duty to protect individual liberty and constitutional rights. (that’s rhetorical)

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Trump Contempt, DeSantis attacks Disney, and MORE!!! May 01, 2022

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1. The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision as to whether school prayer, so far banned under 60 years of precedent, will now be allowed under the First Amendment.

2. The Supreme Court’s view of whether a Texas Federal Judge can keep the Trump “Stay in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers in place or whether Biden will convince them to allow him to end it.

3. The Manhattan DA’s momentous decision to let the Trump criminal grand jury expire and what it means for the criminal case.

4. A NY state court judge siding with the NY Attorney General’s civil investigation of Trump, by refusing to find that Trump fixed his “contempt” problem to stop the $10k a day fine, and ordering Trump’s long time appraisers to turn over all of their files about his loans.

5. A new “seditious conspiracy” conviction for the Department of Justice against yet another Proud Boy.

6. Florida Governor DeSantis’ retaliation against Disney for exercising their First Amendment rights to lobby for the repeal of the Don’t Say Gay education law.

7. A new civil case brought by the DOJ against Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, related to tax evasion and hiding his assets in foreign bank accounts;

8. Why Derek Chauvin has appealed, not his Federal conviction and plea deal, but the State jury sentencing him to 22.5 years in State prison.

9. Newly-discovered text messages submitted to the Georgia administrative judge considering whether to recommend that she be banned from the ballot as an “insurrectionist” between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mark Meadows show that is a liar and not credible.

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NYAG Trump Investigation heats up & FBI is sued by Female Olympic Gymnasts Apr 28, 2022

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1. A NY State Court Judge finding Trump in Civil Contempt for failure to produce documents and records to the NY Attorney General.

2. The same judge ordering Trump’s long time appraisal firm to turn over all of their records without delay to the NY Attorney General to aid her investigation into whether Trump committed loan fraud.

3. 13 members of the Women’s Gymnastics Team putting the FBI on notice that intend to sue the FBI for bungling their investigation of former Dr. Larry Nasser who sexually assaulted and abused them while the FBI did nothing for years.

4. Whether a Jan6 Insurrectionist criminal defendant will be successful in defending herself by arguing that she is not a US or federal citizen, but a child of god.

Special Easter Egg: KFA plays “stump the Popok” as they discuss Elon Musk and his efforts to buy Twitter and what it all means.

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The Marjorie Taylor Greene Hearing, January 6 Committee Bombshells, and More! Apr 24, 2022

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1. The Jan6 Committee’s upcoming June hearings on the Insurrection that one senior member claims will “blow the roof” off of Congress as it describes an “inside coup” led by Trump.

2. The DOJ adding a new lead prosecutor to head the Jan6 prosecutions, including leading the prosecutors focusing on Trump and his inner circle.

3. Marjory Taylor Greene’s efforts to avoid being thrown off the upcoming ballot for reelection as an insurrectionist, and her providing the first sworn testimony of any member of Congress about their role on Jan6.

4. Newly-discovered audio recordings confirming that Kevin McCarthy sought to have Trump resign for his role in the insurrection, and that Trump had confessed about his role in the attack on the Capitol.

5. Alex Jones being hit with over $1mm in fines by a Texas judge presiding over his defamation trial related to his denying that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre actually happened, his filing for bankruptcy to avoid liability, and his contacting the DOJ to cooperate concerning the Jan6 criminal investigation.

6. A new lawsuit filed against Florida Governor DeSantis’ racist redistricting maps, adding 4 new republican seats while cutting Black representation in half.

7. The DOJ filing a new appeal to reverse a Florida Federal judge’s decision last week finding the CDC’s Mask Mandate to be illegal.

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