Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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Crime & Punishment: Criminal Justice through Progressive Prosecutors Jan 20, 2022

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LegalAF x MeidasTouch, the top-rated weekend global news podcast covering US law and politics anchored by Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok, has launched a special weekly Wednesday short-form edition providing a piercing but entertaining look at one or two topics ripped from today’s headlines, this one co-anchored by veteran prosecutor, policy analyst and defense counsel, Karen Friedman Agnifilo (“KFA”). On this inaugural episode, the anchors cover KFA’s “origin story” that brought her to the podcast, including over 20 years in the Manhattan DA’s office (the inspiration for every “Law and Order”), and then Popok and KFA take a hard look at the need for criminal justice reform led by progressive prosecutors around the country, and in KFA’s and Popok’s backyard, NYC.

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Seditious Conspirators, Trump Crimes & SCOTUS Vax Wack Jan 16, 2022

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You come for the law and stay for the truth. Anchored by MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, the top-rated news analysis podcast is back for another hard-hitting, thought-provoking look in “real time” at this week’s developments. On this episode, Ben and Popok discuss:

1. DOJ’s grand jury indictment of 11 OathKeepers including its founder for Seditious Conspiracy with its 20 year maximum prison sentence.

2. SCOTUS’ split decision on President Biden’s vaccine mandates.

3. The Fulton County (Atlanta) Georgia prosecutors’ criminal case against Trump and why it might be the strongest of all the cases.

4. The progress of the civil cases brought by House members and the Capitol Police against Trump for conspiracy under the KKK Act.

5. Gaetz’ x-girlfriend (and potential co-conspirator) testifying in the grand jury against him in his criminal case.

6. Voters seeking to disqualify Rep. Madison Cawthorn under the 14th Amendment for his participation in the Jan6 “insurrection and rebellion” against our country.

7. The RNC’s new case against New York City and Mayor Adams for its new law allowing legal residents (but non-citizens) to vote in the City’s municipal elections.

8. Trump moving to dismiss Mary Trump’s fraud and fiduciary duty breach case against him.

9. “Pharma Boy” Martin Shkreli receiving a lifetime ban from participating in the pharmaceutical industry and a $64mm fine in a case brought by the FTC and NYAG among others.

10. An update in the motion for new trial and sentencing of G. Maxwell regarding her role in the Epstein scandal.

And much more.

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Biden/Garland & Jan 6th, SCOTUS & Vax, Trump Kids Going Down Jan 09, 2022

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1. Attorney General Garland’s & President Biden’s Take On the Insurrectionists and Trump.

2. SCOTUS’s Right Wing Super Majority’s view of Biden’s Vax Mandates.

3. Chief Justice Roberts’ “State of the Judiciary” Annual Report.

4. NYAG’s Investigation As it Turns its Sights on Ivanka and Don Jr., as Trump’s Counterpunch against NYAG stalls.

5. Cyber Ninjas facing $50,000 per day in court fines for the Arizona Fraud-it.

6. Cuomo Cleared of Two Sets of Criminal Charges.

7. The Sentencing of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers.

And much more.

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Maxwell Conviction, Truck Driver Sentence Reduction, Freedom of the Press, and More! Jan 02, 2022

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The law & politics do not take a break for the holidays, so neither does the LegalAF x MeidasTouch podcast. Anchored by MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, the top-rated news analysis podcast is back for another hard-hitting, thought-provoking look in “real time” at this week’s developments. On this first episode of 2022, Ben and Popok analyze:

1. Ghislaine Maxwell Sentencing and Broader Implications.

2. Colorado Governor Commutation of the Sentence Down to 10 Years for Truck Driver sentenced to 110 years for reckless homicide in highway pileup that killed 4 people.

3. 5th Circuit Taking Up Texas Abortion Ban Law—Again.

4.Oklahoma’s Efforts to Prevent National Guard from being Vaccinated is Rejected.

5. The NY Times and its appellate efforts against a trial judge’s order preventing reporting on Project Veritas as an unconstitutional violation of its First Amendment rights (i.e. “prior restraint”).

6.The Biden Administration ramping up of antitrust and other anticompetitive laws and directives in the shipping, meat, and fuel industries to address the highest inflation in 40 years.

7. Jan6 Committee Updates including the National Archive case before SCOTUS, & Minority Leader McCarthy receiving an “invite” to appear.

And much more.

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Ho Ho Hold Them Accountable: Jan 6 Committee ready for Action, SCOTUS on Vaccines, Biden’s judicial appointments and more! Dec 27, 2021

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1. SCOTUS and Vax Mandates Monday’s Oral Argument

2. TRUMP sues NY Attorney General

3. GUN MAKERS sue NY/NYAG to Stop New Public Nuisance Law

4. JAN6 Committee Sued

5. Jan6 Defendants Sentenced to Harsher Sentences

6. Michael Cohen Sues Bill Barr/Bureau of Prisons for Retaliation

7. BIDEN’S Federal Judges Scorecard;

And so much more.

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Prison & Damages: Trump, Meadows, Sacklers, Jan6 Defendants, & Fox News All Had a Really Bad Week Dec 19, 2021

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You know what happened; now hear what happens next. The top-rated weekly US law and politics news analysis podcast -- LegalAF -- produced by Meidas Touch and anchored by MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, is back for another hard-hitting, thought-provoking look in “real time” at this week’s developments. On this episode, Ben and Popok analyze:

1. DC Attorney General’s new civil suit under KKK Act against Insurrectionists like Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

2. Biden winning with his OSHA Large Employer Vax/Testing Mandate upheld by the 6th Circuit.

3. Fox News failing to dismiss Dominion’s billion dollar defamation case in Delaware.

4. Trump losing in his efforts to prevent his personal tax returns from being turned over to House Ways & Means Committee.

5. A Jan6 insurrectionists sentenced to the harshest sentence yet for storming the Capitol.

6. Meadows found in Criminal Contempt of Congress, and how the other Jan6 planners are using various methods to delay justice including attempting to stop Verizon from turning over phone records.

7. Chauvin pleading guilty to federal civil rights charges.

8. The Sackler family failed efforts in Bankruptcy Court to be absolved of all current and future civil liability for the opioid addiction crisis from which they created their personal fortunes.

9. SCOTUS/Gorsuch sending the Texas Abortion Ban back to the right-wing 5th Circuit for further proceedings resulting in further delay to overturning the ban.

10. The sentencing process and the disparate impact on minorities.

And so much more!

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The Fight to Save the Republic & SCOTUS Caught in the Cross-Hairs Dec 12, 2021

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1. The US Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision regarding Texas’s abortion ban after 6 weeks (SB8) to allow abortion providers to sue but refusing to block the ban in the meantime, pitting Chief Justice Roberts against Justice Gorsuch.

2. The US Supreme Court’s oral argument on the Constitutional Separation of Church and State embodied in the First Amendment, and tax assistance for religious primary and secondary schools.

3. The DC Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling to permit the National Archive to produce Trump documents to the Jan6 Select Committee in a blow to Trump and others like Meadows, Bannon, Eastman and Clark.

4. Justice Robert’s consideration of an attempt to eliminate the TSA’s air travel mask mandate.

5. The SEC’s decision to turn up the heat on Trump’s failing SPAC and his social media platform for possible federal securities law violations.

And so much more.

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Trump Judges, Federal Courts, And the Threat to Democracy Dec 05, 2021

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1. The US Supreme Court’s oral argument on whether there will continue to be a constitutionally-protected right for a woman to have an abortion in this country, or not.

2. The Jan6 Special Committee’s move toward criminal contempt against Trump insiders, Meadows, Eastman and Clark.

3. Mainstream media joining Bannon to argue under the First Amendment for the complete release of all materials related his criminal contempt prosecution, and the same for certain aspects of the Mueller Report.

4. A decision this week by a Texas Federal judge relying on the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to stop the enforcement of a new Texas law aimed at preventing large social media platforms from “deplatforming” (banning) people who have abhorrent views.

5. Trump-appointee Federal judges who have banned President Biden’s vaccine-mandate for front-line Medicare/Medicaid health care workers from going into effect 26 states.

And so much more.

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Special Edition: Reaction to oral argument in Supreme Court case seeking overturn of Roe v. Wade Dec 02, 2021

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On this Special Abortion Rights Edition of the top-rated weekly US law and politics news analysis podcast -- MeidasTouch’s LegalAF anchored by MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, discuss today’s (Tuesday December 1, 2021) 2-hour, US Supreme Court oral argument for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, addressing the issue of whether a state can ban pre-viability abortions. The 9 justices wasted no time getting to the heart and heat of the matter: Does the Constitution and the current majority of the Justices support a woman’s right to choose and have bodily autonomy and integrity, or don’t they? Ben and Popok line up the current justice’s from Left (Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan) to Far Right (Roberts, Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Alito and Thomas), and predict how this case and the majority opinion shakes out by the Summer.

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Justice Served: Arbery Murderers convicted, Charlottesville judgment, Trump Lawyers Sanctioned, & More! Nov 28, 2021

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You come for the law and stay for the truth. The top-rated weekly US law and politics news analysis podcast -- LegalAF -- produced by Meidas Touch and anchored by MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, is back for another hard-hitting, thought-provoking, but entertaining look in “real time” at this week’s developments. On this episode, Ben and Popok analyze:

1. The Georgia jury verdict against the murderers of Ahmaud Arbery on felony and malice murder charges against all 3 defendants.

2. The prosecution and arrest of the FORMER prosecutor of the defendants in the Arbery murder trial for felony violation of her oath of office and obstruction based on her failure to arrest and prosecute.

3. The Virginia jury verdict against the white supremacists in Charlottesville who led the “Unite the Right” rally that led to the murder of a peaceful counter-protester and injury to scores of others.

4. The current DOJ’s settlement with the families of Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland, Florida) for the FBI’s failure to prevent the mass shooting that murdered 17 people that occurred on Trump’s watch.

5. The efforts by convicted and sentenced Jan6 insurrectionists to appeal their convictions and overturn their sentences.

6. The monetary sanctioning of attorneys who filed a meritless case against Facebook, Dominion Voting Systems, and 4 states in Colorado federal court to overturn the election.

7. The imaginary lawsuit prepared by the Pillow Guy seeking to overturn last year’s election that has no plaintiff, no attorneys and no chance of success.

8. New moves by Bannon concerning the public disclosure of documents in his federal prosecution for criminal contempt of Congress.

And so much more!

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