Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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 Skewered by Judges before SNAP Deadline

October 31, 2025 • 16 mins
In breaking news, two Obama-appointed judges—one in Rhode Island and one in Massachusetts—have issued emergency orders ensuring that $6 billion in contingency funds will flow to 40 million Americans living below the poverty line, many of them Trump voters, to prevent a catastrophic cutoff in food stamp payments. Michael Popok explains why there are two separate lawsuits on the same issue, how each judge approached the case differen...
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Trump Hit with Rude Awakening as Market Sends Him Brutal Message

October 30, 2025 • 17 mins
Trump’s efforts to use the Shutdown to put a blindfold around the Fed to deny it key economic data so it would fly blind during today’s Interest Rate setting meeting, backfired, as the Fed Chair said that when in a “fog” you “slow down” indicating that Trump screwed up his efforts to get a second rate cut next month by keeping the Government shut down. Michael Popok puts on his Wall Street goggles to take a look at today’s Federal...
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Trump Trapped as Judge Orders All Grand Jury Docs be Turned Over

October 30, 2025 • 14 mins
In breaking news, a South Carolina Federal Judge who will decide whether Trump’s novice prosecutor Lindsey Halligan will keep her judge, has issued a devastating order against Halligan, calling her “the indictment signer” only and refusing to use her US Attorney title, and ordering that “all documents relating” to her “participation in the grand jury” be turned over to the Judge. Michael Popok explains why this is so damning as th...
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Trump Sent Dire Warning by SCOTUS Ahead of Troops Ruling

October 30, 2025 • 12 mins
Michael Popok explains why a 1 paragraph order in the last few hours from the Supreme Court may spell disaster for Trump’s plan to continue to attack Blue States and Blue Cities with federalized National Guard. That one question could signal that there is at least 1 MAGA Supreme Court justice who may be willing to rein in Trump and his abuse of the National Guard. Subscribe:  @LegalAFMTN  Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meida...
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Legal AF Full Episode - 10/29/2025

October 30, 2025 • 76 mins
Twenty-nine appeals judges have overturned a pro-Trump ruling on the use of the National Guard in Oregon, setting the stage for a new trial against the Trump administration. Meanwhile, the Seventh Circuit issued a head-scratching decision undermining a federal judge’s attempt to rein in out-of-control federal leaders, and the Supreme Court dropped a bizarre late-afternoon ruling. Elsewhere, a federal judge came down hard on Trump’s...
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Trump Screws his Own Lawyers Right Before Appeal

October 29, 2025 • 14 mins
In a shocking turn of events, new evidence has been revealed that Trump’s Federal law enforcement and national guard troops are FIRING at Local law enforcement in Oregon, hitting them with tear gas and pepper balls, facts that will come out in a new trial that starts in front of Judge Immergut. Michael Popok reports on the trial and the fact that the day before it began, the majority of 29 judges that make up the 9th Circuit sign...
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta on New Lawsuit Against Trump Administration

October 29, 2025 • 22 mins
Trump ignores the suffering of Americans during the shutdown, jetting off to Asia to try to clean up his economic messes while constructing a golden ballroom where the White House’s East Wing once stood. In contrast, 22 Democratic attorneys general have filed a new emergency lawsuit demanding that Trump pay $8 billion in November to help prevent 42 million American babies, children, elderly, and disabled from going hungry. Californ...
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The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode - 10/28/2025

October 29, 2025 • 55 mins
A federal judge gags AG Bondi and others from speaking in public to undermine Abrego Garcia’s right to a fair trial. A federal judge takes steps to ensure that Abrego Garcia isn’t retaliated against and sent to Liberia in the next few hours. Lindsey Halligan is up to her eyeballs in hot water, with a new suit brewing about her destruction of public records in a new “Signal-gate” scandal, and a Clinton appointed judge about to dec...
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Newsom Files Emergency Lawsuit against Trump and Rallies 22 AGs

October 28, 2025 • 16 mins
23 States, led by California, have sued the Trump Administration to force it to fund a program designed to prevent tens of millions of babies and children from being malnourished and starving to death during the Shutdown, as Trump cuts off funds but finds funding for his pet projects, including the Golden Ball Room. Michael Popok reports on the new suit and Trump’s modern day Marie Antoinette moment in history as he continues to b...
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Trump Admin Skewered by Pissed Off Judge & Orders Gag

October 28, 2025 • 21 mins
In breaking news, a federal judge in the Abrego Garcia criminal case has gagged AG Pam Bondi, Border Czar Tom Homan, Homeland Security Sec Kristie Noem, and the rest of the Trump Administration from making public statements about Garcia’s case undermining his 6th Amendment right to a fair trial, AND has ordered that the Government produce all documents about prosecutors who quit rather than indict Garcia. Michael Popok also report...
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Trump Blindsided by New Lawsuit as Prosecutor Destroys Evidence?!

October 28, 2025 • 20 mins
Trump’s novice federal prosecutor is in hot water in two ways (again), with a new lawsuit brewing accusing her of both intentionally destroying federal records and communications AND threatening reporters, while a South Carolina Clinton-appointed judge is going to decide whether she lives or dies as a federal prosecutor as Judge Currie decides the pending motions to disqualify Halligan. Michael Popok has the receipts, including an ...
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Trump Gets Extremely Desperate as He Faces His Fate

October 27, 2025 • 18 mins
Trump is trolling America with treasonous talk of a Third Term in order to counter his inevitable Lame Duck status in 2026, as new polling declares that 80 Percent of America, including a large portion of Republicans, reject a Trump “third term.”  Michael Popok looks at the recent remarks by Trump as he gets the band back together from his 2020 coup plotting, like Bannon, to give him political relevancy in the face of historically ...
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Trump Blasted as He Destroys His Own Lawyers at Supreme Court

October 27, 2025 • 16 mins
Trump being triggered by Ontario’s running a Ronald Reagan speech against him in US prime time and hitting Canada with a 10% tariff to punish them for it, has been used by The Wall Street Journal to send a “DM” of the Supreme Court to take away Trump’s power to tariff and declare the tariffs void!  Michael Popok takes a look at how Trump’s pique of anger over an ad, and how’s he’s treated Brazil, India and Argentina, only bolsters ...
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Legal AF Full Episode - 10/25/2025

October 26, 2025 • 91 mins
Trump has a habit of creating his own destroyers, and now Special Counsel Jack Smith has broken his vow of silence and is demanding to be heard by the public when he testifies about Trump’s criminality before Congress. Trump’s other self-created destroyer, New York Attorney General Letitia James, is more powerful than ever—filing multiple motions to destroy Trump, his DOJ, and Lindsey Halligan—as her criminal case falls apart right...
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Trump Screws Up Big as AG James Shows Up for Criminal Case

October 24, 2025 • 21 mins
Trump will rue the day he took on NY AG Leticia James, who turned the tables today with the Attorney General going on the attack against outmatched and outgunned and outwitted “loaner” federal prosecutors. Michael Popok reports on her arraignment, her fiery public comments in defense, and her filing MULTIPLE motions against Trump’s pet of a prosecutor Lindsey Halligan and his DOJ, including to gag the entire administration includi...
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Trump Screwed as Prosecutor He Needs Refuses to Indict

October 24, 2025 • 18 mins
Trump’s handpicked prosecutor in Maryland, US Attorney Kelly O Hayes, who only a few days ago indicted one of Trump’s political enemies Ambassador John Bolton, according to sources, just told the DOJ that she WILL NOT prosecute Trump’s political rival Sen. Adam Schiff. Michael Popok explains that a newly leaked memo from the Trump Administration’s own files likely convinced her not to prosecute, but nobody seems to have told cluel...
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🚨 Trump Gets Tables Turned on Him as DOJ Headed to Trial

October 23, 2025 • 17 mins
The very FIRST trial against the Trump Administration and his DOJ for vindictive prosecution and dismissal of an indictment brought against one of his political enemies starts in just a few days, and the Defense is going after top DOJ and Trump lawyers to have them testify in open court. Popok breaks down the new trial subpoenas issued to DOJ #2 Todd Blanche and others, and how Trump’s and Melania’s civil suits will force him and ...
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Trump Screwed as Prosecutor He Needs Refuses to Indict

October 23, 2025 • 18 mins
Trump’s handpicked prosecutor in Maryland, US Attorney Kelly O Hayes, who only a few days ago indicted one of Trump’s political enemies Ambassador John Bolton, according to sources, just told the DOJ that she WILL NOT prosecute Trump’s political rival Sen. Adam Schiff.  Michael Popok explains that a newly leaked memo from the Trump Administration’s own files likely convinced her not to prosecute, but nobody seems to have told cluel...
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Legal AF Full Episode - 10/22/2025

October 23, 2025 • 79 mins
Dina Doll (in for Popok) and Karen Friedman Agnifilo anchor the top-ranked law and politics podcast Legal AF, and break down this week’s biggest legal and political bombshells at the intersection of law and democracy, including: 1) a new bombshell lawsuit against Melania Trump brought by Michael Wolff over Epstein claims; 2) Jack Smith striking back against GOP senators over their claims over his DOJ investigations; 3) a busy week ...
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The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode - 10/21/2025

October 22, 2025 • 60 mins
A bombshell new lawsuit is filed by Arizona to force MAGA Mike to swear in Rep. Grijalva and get the release of the Epstein Trump Coverup Files to a House vote. Trump tries to steal another $230 million from American Taxpayers seeking to arrange a phony settlement of a phony lawsuit of his with his corrupt DOJ. Trump tries to steal $400 million from a not that wealthy college in Miami to pay for his Presidential Library to park h...
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