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
May 5, 2025 • 19 mins
Trump as payback for his father and him being investigated by the civil rights division of the DOJ has moved to shutter the once proud crown jewel division that was responsible for enforcing the Fair Housing Act, Voting Rights Act, anti-discrimination and harassment laws, investigate and sue over hate crimes, including church and synagogue attacks. Now, under Trump, the division lost 70 percent of its lawyers and has now been reduc...
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May 4, 2025 • 82 mins
Ben Meiselas & Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast and tonight address many firsts from this week: the first federal judge to declare as unconstitutional Trump's relentless attack on an independent bar and lawyers in our free society; the first federal judge to declare Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act unconstitutional and an abuse of power; the first standing ovation in the Supreme Court led by its Justices to su...
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May 3, 2025 • 19 mins
Trump’s new Executive Order to “unleash” cops on Americans, defend them with the free legal work he extorted from major law firms, and then use the military against the American People, is not only a violation of the Constitution and the Posse Comitatus Act, but is one step closer to Trump declaring Martial Law. Michael Popok explains how Big Law, which gave Trump a billion dollars worth of free legal service, is complicit in Trum...
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May 3, 2025 • 21 mins
Trump is continuing to press his losing hand with the United States Supreme Court, and has filed his 12th phony “emergency” application to convince the Supreme Court that it when it called all Venezuelans “scum” and “dirtbags” it was only kidding before deciding to end their protective status and deport them. Michael Popok explains why filing this particular emergency application that Justice Kagan considers first may backfire for...
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May 2, 2025 • 15 mins
Trump has so destroyed the DOJ’s reputation for candor and integrity that federal judges won’t handle their cases unless a court reporter takes down every word in a transcript to ensure that their words are not twisted out of all meaning. Michael Popok looks at new reporting that Trump’s former criminal lawyer Emil Bove is running amok at the DOJ, destroying its Public Integrity Unit and its Civil Rights Division to use the DOJ to...
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May 1, 2025 • 76 mins
Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo return for the top-rated Legal AF podcast to debate: 1) Trump’s disastrous first 100 days; 2) the Supreme Court potentially tearing down the final wall between church and state; 3) a judge moving closer to holding Trump and his administration in contempt; 4) a new “mother of all lawsuits” filed against the Trump administration—and much more.
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April 30, 2025 • 19 mins
The Trump Administration has declared all-out war against Jeff Bezos and Amazon because of Amazon’s plan to disclose the impact of Trump’s tariffs on pricing for each item on Amazon. Michael Popok looks at the broader issue of Trump being bad for business, simultaneously attacking all of the pillars of the US Economy in his first 100 Days: Universities; Service Professionals; federal funding and employment, and now Big Business, a...
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April 28, 2025 • 17 mins
Trump’s own administration just confirmed that he lied to Time Magazine when he falsely claimed that they did “200 deals” since announcing the failed Tariffs and hit the pause button, as it turns out he also lied about having a phone call with China about the trade embargo, as the world wide supply chain collapses, with 40% less cargo coming into US Ports in the first ships in since the Chinese embargo was announced. Michael Popok ...
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April 28, 2025 • 17 mins
As the feds struggle to even obtain a grand jury indictment against hero State Court Judge Hannah Dugan for not trusting the Trump Administration and demanding a proper judge-issued arrest warrant before allowing the feds to arrest an undocumented defendant in her court room, and other judges threatening to close their courtrooms in solidarity, the Trump Administration won’t rule out arresting other judges all he way up to the Unit...
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April 27, 2025 • 74 mins
Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok, the founders of Legal AF, are back on the latest edition of the podcast, drilling down on Trump’s failed immigration and deportation policies leading to mass voter defections in new polling; the hallowed out Trump DOJ and its new blooper real of screwups, including filing a secret attorney client memo with a court; and deporting a 2 year old US citizen without due process; even MAGA judges turning o...
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April 25, 2025 • 17 mins
Trump has blood on his hands, as his weak and undermining erratic policy to undermine our allies in Ukraine has now led to a new bombing of Kyiv has killed more than 10 people. Trump’s response? Posting a morning 1/2 a paragraph social media posting to beg “Vladimir” Putin to STOP the bombing. Michael Popok explains how Trump’s “Dear Vladimir” posting proves Trump’s weakness and that he has been lying to the American people about ...
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April 25, 2025 • 21 mins
The Federal Reserve’s new report is predicting a worsening economy in just the first 90 days of Trump, driven by his erratic trade, tariff, and immigration policies, as the 12 US economic regions report cratering manufacturing, home sales, tourism, and banks tightening their lending criteria. Simultaneously, Trump’s new poll numbers paint a disastrous presidency where he lost 7 points of support and now the majority of Americans “...
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April 25, 2025 • 16 mins
Open warfare has broken out in the Trump Administration as the Dept of Transportation goes on the pubic attack of its own lawyers at the DOJ office in New York, claiming that they are trying to intentionally sabotage Trump’s own case against New York State by intentionally filing on the Court’s public filing system a secret confidential memo of client advise that criticized the Trump position and said it would not work with the Jud...
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April 24, 2025 • 75 mins
Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo on the top rated Legal AF podcast, discuss: Judge Xinis' scathing new order against Trump putting his Administration well on the way to another contempt finding; the Supreme Court and 4th Circuit rulings rocking Trump's world as he reconsiders his losing fight with Courts and the Supreme Court because the public is telling him he's a loser in polling; Trump's pathetically weak attacks on NY...
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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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