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

Trump DOJ Cornered by Judge in Court and Goes Silent

March 28, 2025 • 26 mins

As an appeals court questions whether suspected “Nazis” in America during WWII received more due process than the undocumented people deported in the middle of the night by Trump with a phony use of his “war powers,” the Trump Administration files yet another misleading response with the trial judge arguing erroneously that the judge’s oral injunction that they failed to comply with by continuing to deport people to the killer pris...

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Legal AF Full Episode 3/26/2025

March 27, 2025 • 72 mins

Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo join forces again on the Legal AF podcast, and debate the success of a new federal lawsuit to accuse the Trump Administration of violating, what else, the Federal Records Act by having a "signal group chat" about war plans, a case assigned to Trump's least favorite judge Chief Judge Boasberg(!); an update on the Alien Enemies Act case in which a trial judge and now a federal appeals court h...

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Supreme Court Smacks Down Trump in Shock Ruling

March 26, 2025 • 18 mins

At least 2 right-wing Supreme Court justices (Alito and Thomas) support having unregulated ghost guns used in tens of thousands of crimes and killings each year, but fortunately, 7 others led by Justice Gorsuch have just supported a Biden-era regulation making ghost gun kit manufacturers for DIY home gun makers subject to registration and background checks. Michael Popok takes a look at the new bombshell ruling and what it means ...

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Trump Blindsided by Judge He Pissed Off in New Lawsuit

March 26, 2025 • 17 mins

First, we had the hearings, and now we have the first federal suit filed against Trump’s bungling top Security and Defense officials and the Vice President, for using a communications platform (Signal) that makes their communications “disappear” all in violation of the Federal Records Act and obligations under the Freedom of information Act, and guess who the case has been assigned to? You guessed it, Trump’s favorite “lunatic, cor...

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Popok LIVE Full Episode 3/25/2025

March 26, 2025 • 67 mins

Michael Popok provides urgent real-time live briefing on late-breaking law and politics events from today. Tonight, Popok examines one of the greatest breaches of national security in our history by an Administration with a chat group about war plans gets sent to a journalist, as the feeding frenzy starts and Pete Hegseth gets thrown under the bus by his own colleagues, and Trump declares "they did WHAT?"; the Trump Administration...

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WTF?! Trump Picks Worst Lawyer in USA as Top Fed

March 25, 2025 • 14 mins

Alina Habba has gone from representing parking lot owners and being sanctioned by federal judges and losing major federal cases for Trump, to being promoted to serve as the Acting Interim US Attorney for NJ, a state Trump is retaliating against to pay them back with Habba for not voting for him. Michael Popok (NJ born and bred) explains why the last US Attorney only lasted 3 weeks, and why Habba got a promotion. Get 20% OFF your ...

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Trump in World of Hell as Espionage Act Re-Surfaces

March 25, 2025 • 17 mins

The Trump Administration used a third party app that could be hacked by our enemies, to communicate about recent secret war plans this month against the Houthis and Iran before the bombing began, and added by accident the Editor and Chief of the Atlantic magazine to the chain, in likely violation of the Espionage Act. Michael Popok reports. For 50% off your first order plus free shipping forever, head to https://FilterEasy.com/LE...

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Legal AF Full Episode 3/22/2025

March 23, 2025 • 83 mins

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast, and tonight discuss: Trump picking a fight he is doomed to lose all the way up to the US Supreme Court with one of the most revered judges of our lifetime -- Chief Judge Boesberg of the DC district court, over Trump's phony "wag the dog" declaration of war against Venezuela; Federal judges firing back with public statements and letter filings to shove back against ...

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DC Judge Puts the Screws in Trump on Key Military Issue

March 22, 2025 • 18 mins

In a scathing new order blocking Trump’s ban on transgender American troops, a DC Federal Judge has declared that the ban is “fueled by animus” and “dripping on pretext” and observes the “cruel irony” that those who valiantly serve to protect our freedoms are having theirs ripped away from them by Trump. Michael Popok explains the new order, and the automatic stay imposed, and what happens next up to the US Supreme Court. Dose: S...

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Judge Strikes Back at Trump’s Attacks… Contempt Warning!

March 21, 2025 • 20 mins

Chief Judge Boesberg of the DC District Court, far from being intimidated by Trump and his Administration calling him “corrupt” and a “lunatic” and calling for his removal or “impeachment,” is instead moving closer to finding the Trump Administration in contempt for continuing to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act after he issued an injunction to block the planes. Michael Popok explains why the Judge foun...

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Trump Faces Major Setback as Appeals Court Shreds Him

March 21, 2025 • 13 mins

The 9th Circuit just dealt a set back to the Trump Administration, siding for now with Federal Judge Alsup who by injunction ordered Trump to rehire tens of thousands of federal workers today. But on the same day as his set back, Trump’s first federal judge opening is, where else? The “liberal-minded” 9th Circuit Court based in San Francisco. Michael Popok ties it all together with his reporting. Upgrade your sleep with Miracle M...

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Trump Screws Himself as He Picks Fight with Wrong Judge

March 21, 2025 • 17 mins

Trump’s Press Secretary just “doxxed” a federal judge, attacking him by name, following Chief Justice Roberts effectively telling the Trump Administration to knock it off in a historic direct statement aimed at Trump, and Trump telling Fox that he didn’t believe Roberts was even talking about him. The Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt should resign immediately, as Michael Popok outlines. Head to https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/...

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Legal AF Full Episode 3/19/2025

March 20, 2025 • 79 mins

Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo join forces again on the Legal AF podcast, and debate: why Trump is sending a mafia-like message to Chief Justice Roberts and why they are doubling down on their fight with the Supreme Court; whether the Supreme Court will uphold a new order blocking Trump's efforts to drum Transgender soldiers out of the military; whether a federal judge will (or can) find the Trump Administration in conte...

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Popok LIVE Full Episode 3/18/2025

March 19, 2025 • 63 mins

Legal AF's Michael Popok provides urgent real-time live briefing on late-breaking law and politics events from today. Tonight, in the Trump Openly Defying Federal Judges Edition, Popok (a) examines the unprecedented and historic ostracism of Trump by the Chief Justice of the US, John Roberts, in direct real time response to Trump attacking a federal judge earlier in the day as corrupt and calling for his impeachment; (b) examines...

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Chief Justice Issues Shock Statement on Trump

March 18, 2025 • 15 mins

In an unprecedented and historic development, Chief Justice Roberts has opened a direct dialogue with Trump in public, admonishing him in a statement in real-time for attacking Federal Judge Boasberg this morning for blocking his illegal use of war powers to deport people in a social media rant, calling him a lunatic and calling for his all caps “IMPEACHMENT”. Michael Popok takes a deep dive into Roberts' direct finger-wagging at T...

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Judge Lays the Smack Down on Trump over War Powers

March 18, 2025 • 24 mins

The only thing standing between the Trump Administration’s open defiance and our constitutional Republic and rule of law is Chief Judge of the DC District Court, Jeb Boasberg, who dressed down Trump DOJ lawyers who tried to argue that they did not have to comply with his oral rulings and that the Chief Judge was not qualified to obtain classified information and had no jurisdiction to stop Trump’s use of his presidential powers to ...

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Trump Throws Late Night Fit After Biden Derails Plan

March 17, 2025 • 14 mins

Trump is claiming that Biden’s Pardons of his family, Jan6 Committee Members, Dr. Fauci and General Milley among others, are invalid and that it won’t stop his DOJ from going after them, because Biden did what all presidents have done before him, used the aid of a Mechanical autopen to sign written pardon declarations, Michael Popok explains that the power of the pardon is absolute, and does not require writing at all, and that th...

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Trump Sinks to New Low and Rejects Order on War Powers

March 17, 2025 • 20 mins

A new constitutional crisis has broken out with the Trump Administration refusing to comply, again, with a Federal judge’s orders. In a new filing, The Trump Administration just confessed to violating a Court Order to stop Trump’s unconstitutional exercise of war powers to deport hundreds of people to El Salvador and Honduras in violation of a DC Chief Judge’s order blocking that action, and the ACLU representing Plaintiffs have fi...

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Legal AF Full Episode 3/15/2025

March 16, 2025 • 78 mins

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back on the top rated Legal AF podcast and discuss: Trump's off the rails DOJ speech, as they translate the "coded" language he uses to assault our rule of law and judicial independence to try to thwart his unconstitutional urges; the Supreme Court getting involved with Birth Right Citizenship and what the timing of their ordered briefing schedule may signal; a new Order to stop Trump from declari...

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Trump Cornered by Canada and Mexico as Trade War Backfires

March 15, 2025 • 15 mins

The world is watching Canada as it uses aggressive brinksmanship to shove back against Trump and his insane tariff war, and it’s working. Michael Popok compares Canada’s new muscular approach to Trump’s bullying and Mexico’s behind-closed-doors approach, and why both work against Trump but it different ways. Get an additional 15% off their 90-day subscription Starter Kit by going to https://fatty15.com/LEGALAF and using code LE...

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