Legal AF by MeidasTouch
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 occasional shorter breaking legal news hits throughout the week.
Episodes
April 23, 2025 • 17 mins
One thing that is reliable is Trump posting things on social media that undermine his Administration’s legal positions and turn off the Supreme Court, which has the fate of his Administration in its hands. Now Trump is claiming that our 5th Amendment privileges and Due Process constitutional guarantees before some is imprisoned is a nuisance that should be ignored, just at the moment the Supreme Court is so deeply skeptical of him ...
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April 23, 2025 • 18 mins
Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, is not waiting around to see if Trump made another “ooops” and mistake in threatening to cut off another billion dollars in research grants, and has had enough, filing a new lawsuit today, and hiring 2 attorneys to stop the assault on academic freedom: Bill Burck who is currently the Trump Organization’s chief ethics counsel, who brought in Robert Hur of all things, who Trump appointed as a ...
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April 23, 2025 • 14 mins
In a scathing rebuke in the Abrego-Garcia “lawless seizure” case, Federal Judge Paula Xinis has just ruled that the Trump Administration and its lawyers’ “bad faith” to “willfully evade” their court-ordered obligations using “specious arguments,” "ends now.” Michael Popok examines the hearing and the judge’s new order that puts the Trump Administration and its DOJ lawyers on a fast track to another federal judge finding them in c...
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April 22, 2025 • 17 mins
Well, if you are the Trump Administration and you don’t like a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against you on immigration issues, just change the words in it and say you are complying! The Trump Administration was just caught lying to a Federal Judge and in its discovery submissions in the Armando Abrego Garcia case, giving Judge Xinis new grounds to find them in contempt and sanction them. Michael Popok takes a look at a new “joint sta...
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April 22, 2025 • 17 mins
A senior federal judge in NY who knows Trump well from having ruled against him in the E Jean Carroll case, just told the DOJ in ruling against them on the attempted deportation and removal of undocumented to El Salvador, the he does accept their “flexible” approach to a detainee’s Due Process Rights and finds their approach to human suffering, the equivalent of the Inquisition during Medieval times. Michael Popok reports.
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April 21, 2025 • 17 mins
We may be watching the greatest meltdown in Pentagon leadership history, with Pete Hegseth needing 3 different baby sitters and constant White House coverups, just to screw up his job and our national security on a daily basis. Michael Popok reports on a new exposé by the Pentagon’s former chief spokesperson and new reporting that Hegseth uses his wife, brother, and personal lawyer as his babysitters and handlers before he makes m...
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April 21, 2025 • 22 mins
Against the backdrop of polling finding that almost 60% of America would impeach Trump if he doesn’t comply with the Supreme Court’s orders, Justice Alito issues his dissent to the Court’s 7-2 decision to block Trump from continuing to deport the undocumented without due process and notice in a Texas processing center. Michael Popok reports that even Justice Alito does not completely trust the Trump Administration to comply with i...
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April 21, 2025 • 18 mins
The Trump White House—led, no doubt, by Trump’s chief immigration henchman, Stephen Miller—has taunted the Supreme Court, the Fourth Circuit, and all Americans with a sophomoric yet chilling new social media post from the official White House account. The post declares that they will not comply with the Supreme Court’s commands regarding due process and the rule of law, effectively declaring war on our Constitutional Republic. Mich...
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April 20, 2025 • 88 mins
Ben Meiselas & Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast and tonight debate: how federal judges up to the Supreme Court are addressing a lawless presidency; the Supreme Court’s late night surprising stay to block Trump deporting more people to El Salvador; Judge Wilkinson’s scathing yet soaring criticism of the Administration while approving of a Judge’s process that could lead to a Trump Administration contempt finding; a...
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April 19, 2025 • 20 mins
The earth moved this week, with Trump losing the support of one of the lions of the Federalist, Republican and Conservative movements, Judge Harvie Wilkinson, who warns America in a scathing rebuke of Trump from his perch on the 4th Circuit, that Trump could try to deport US CITIZENS to foreign prisons without due process, a wake up call to stop Trump’s fascist march. Michael Popok takes a close look at Wilkinson and his order and...
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April 19, 2025 • 15 mins
California Governor Newsom, who presides over the 5th largest economy in the world, is taunting Trump with a new filing, asking him “what are you scared of” as Trump tries to run away from a federal suit filed in California and assigned to a Biden appointed judge to declare his tariff policies unconstitutional, and trying to find a Trump judge on the US Court of International Trade in NY to take the case instead, Michael Popok exp...
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April 18, 2025 • 15 mins
Chief Judge Boesberg is not only strongly considering appointing a “private attorney” like Jack Smith to prosecute the Trump Administration’s “willful” criminal contempt of court, but is now considering whether to retain jurisdiction over the case to make sure the undocumented are given the due process “notice” our Constitution demands, as Trump files an appeal of the court’s contempt finding. Michael Popok explains it all in his ...
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April 17, 2025 • 86 mins
Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo, on the top-rated Legal AF podcast, debate a judge’s decision to hold the Trump Administration in contempt of court with a referral for prosecution imminent. They also break down another federal judge preparing to do the same over Trump’s refusal to secure the release of Armando Garcia, his losing legal battles against the media, and much more from the ever-tumultuous intersection of law an...
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April 16, 2025 • 16 mins
In breaking and startling news, the Chief Judge of the DC Court has found the Trump Administration for the first time in CRIMINAL CONTEMPT of Court, and will make a “referral for prosecution” for willfully disobeying his order to ground the planes with prisoners bound for the super max prison in El Salvador. Michael Popok explains that when, not if, the Trump Administration refuses to return the 2 plane loads of prisoners back to ...
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April 15, 2025 • 20 mins
Harvard’s faculty has turned up the heat with a new Injunction lawsuit filed in Massachusetts Federal Court against the Trump Administration and its efforts to cut off $9 billion in federal funding to violate Harvard’s academic freedom and First Amendment rights, as Harvard hires the Trump Organization’s own “ethics counsel”’s firm to defend against the Trump Administration’s attacks. Michael Popok ties it all together including t...
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April 15, 2025 • 14 mins
Trump is trying to use taxpayer dollars and the power of the “United States of America” to get him out from under an almost $100 million dollar civil jury judgment in favor of E. Jean Carroll for sex abuse and defamation and have the US intervene in the case to nullify the jury’s verdict in a new filing. Michael Popok updates the audience on the $500 million dollar civil fraud judgment against Trump in NY, and the efforts to victi...
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April 15, 2025 • 22 mins
The Supreme Court gave Trump a one-line “out” about his foreign affairs powers, and Trump is now flipping the script and making the illegal removal and deportation of Armando Abrego Garcia all about Trump’s foreign affairs powers as he now declares that the US is powerless to tell El Salvador what to do with Mr. Garcia, as Trump and the dictator of El Salvador taunt the American people and the US Supreme Court from the Oval Office....
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April 14, 2025 • 20 mins
The Trump Administration has declared war on the Constitution and the Supreme Court over the return from an El Salvador jail of the illegally removed and deported Armando Abrego Garcia. New court filings have told a Federal Judge whose order was affirmed by the Supreme Court 9-0 that it has no duty to take any steps to discuss with El Salvador his return, and the Federal courts can’t make him. Michael Popok looks at Trump’s new fi...
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April 13, 2025 • 85 mins
Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back with the Top 10 ranked Legal AF podcast, and tonight debate: why the Trump Administration is refusing to abide by a Supreme Court ruling against them on deportation and what the courts can do about it; the Trump DOJ having to admit that they have had to dismiss the indictment against a purported MS-13 drug gang leader creating their own “fake news”; whether Justice Riggs will win her North Ca...
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April 12, 2025 • 19 mins
Legal AF’s Michale Popok dives into the latest legal showdown between Trump and Judge Xinis, exploring how the Supreme Court’s order empowered Xinis to take bold action, as Trump refuses to back down from this high-stakes battle.
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