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Is anyone shocked that in the wild wild unregulated West of Cryptocurrency, someone may have just defrauded the Trumps by launching an “approved” $Trump meme digital wallet with Trump’s likeness that the Trump family knows nothing about? Michael Popok reports on a the launch of the $Trump meme wallet, that quickly led to denials by Eric and Don Jr! Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https...

While on its face the Supreme Court just apparently dealt a set back to assault weapon gun owners in America by allowing for now a Maryland ban on AR15 assault rifles and a Rhode Island ban on high capacity magazines to remain in effect, there are warning signs in both orders that the MAGA right— led by Thomas and Kavanaugh — is prepared in the next term to find that people have a 2nd Amendment Ri...

A federal judge who presided over Trump’s criminal case just refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that Trump violated the Appointments Clause by letting Musk take control of 17 agencies and departments without Congressional approval, a suit that she claims addresses “tyranny” and illegal attempts by a president to abuse power. Michael Popok explains why Trump was dismissed as a party, but why tha...

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok, hosts of the #1 law and politics podcast on YouTube, dive into a packed agenda tonight: Trump’s meltdown over his recent court losses and his attacks on the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo; his failing legal strategy surrounding tariffs and the courts’ response; his corrupt pardon scheme and blatant influence-peddling; and his bizarre claim of severe emotional di...

While foreign governments have adopted a TACO strategy banking on Trump chickening out in their trade negotiations with him, Trump has now been forced to appeal his hand picked court, the US Court of International Trade, who just blocked his entire retaliatory tariff policy as unconstitutional. Michael Popok explains what specialty appeals court gets the case next, and why the Supreme Court may no...

If you are a member of the Cuba, Venezuelan, Haitian or Nicaraguan American community who voted for Trump, you are in for a rude awakening, as the Supreme Court MAGA right majority just gave a big green light for Trump to immediately deport “Documented” people from those countries living under protective status in the US under Biden as they with US sponsors help seek asylum and other legal status....

Wait a minute, did embattled Trump Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth just lie to Trump’s own advisors about using an illegal warrantless wiretap to justify firing 3 of his underlings in a phony “mole”/leak hunt? Or did Hegseth’s personal attorney lie to Trump’s advisors about using the illegal wiretap? Either one is bad for Hegseth, as the hunt for leaks in the Trump Administration just backfired and cr...

Trump and his Commerce Secretary’s family are about to launch a new crypto grift in advance of this week’s Vegas Crypto conference, with each raising several billion dollars from poor investor suckers to use their money to buy billions more of crypto currency to shore up their sagging balance sheets. Michael Popok puts on his Wall Street hat to expose another suckers bet launched by Trump this wee...

At the same time that a Federal Judge in Boston entered a Preliminary Injunction to prevent the Trump Administration from killing Harvard’s foreign student program which is more than 25% of its student body, just 9 miles away, 32,000 people in the Harvard Community joined together to provide thunderous applause for Harvard’s President Alan Garber as a rebuke of Trump as the crowd learned that Harv...

In a fast moving breaking story, we have 2 major developments about Trump’s unconstitutional tariff policies: (1) All the judges of the  Federal Circuit Court of Appeals have issued an Administrative Stay of last night’s Court of International Trade ruling blocking Trump’s global retaliatory tariff policies, until it has time to hear the appeal; while (2) a different federal judge in DC has also r...

Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo return with a new episode of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tonight’s docket: Judge Chutkan green lights a lawsuit challenging Trump’s “tyranny” and use of Musk/DOGE, while issuing a surprise ruling involving Trump himself. A federal judge slams Trump for deporting individuals to South Sudan who aren't even from there—prompting Trump to appeal to the S...

In response to a Federal Judge blocking Trump’s latest efforts to destroy Harvard by denying it the ability to recruit foreign students, Trump has gone another holiday rager, posting on Memorial Day that he will try to divert about $500 million dollars in funding meant for bio medical research, to trade schools presumably in Red States. Michael Popok takes a careful look at Judge Burrows' ruling,...

The law firm of Jenner and Block, whom Trump tried to effectively give the death penalty to and put out of business because he doesn’t like their clients and lawyers, obtained ON THE SAME DAY, an injunction from Judge Bates blocking the Trump Administration from putting them out of business, and an injunction from Judge Burrows blocking Trump from putting Harvard out of business. Michael Popok pro...

Ben Meiselas & Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast and tonight debate: The Supreme Court's schizophrenia on full display, sometimes siding with Trump, sometimes not, as it lurches from one presidential crisis to the next at the end of the term; Harvard's fist fight with Trump; Trump's own press secretary opening him up to criminal prosecution in the future for the Meme Coin/influence...

On the midweek edition of the Legal AF podcast, Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Dina Doll break down a new ruling by a federal judge finding the Trump administration in violation of a court order, Trump’s official acceptance of a Qatari jet, Alina Habba’s use of legal retribution to target political opponents in New Jersey, and a new probe into Andrew Cuomo launched by the Trump DOJ. This and more on...

A Federal Judge —with the full support of the Supreme Court— ripped Trump’s DOJ a new one in court, and is likely about to find the Trump Administration in contempt for refusing in “bad faith” to comply with her order to detail under oath steps taken to obtain the return of Armando Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador jail. Michael Popok explains what Judge Xinis is likely to order this coming week a...

Ben Meiselas & Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast and tonight debate: The Supreme Court's rulings against the Trump Administration and its assault on Due Process and the Fifth Amendment and how the Court is fighting back; whether the Court will allow Trump to continue to play "catch me if you can" with his policies, or off a new oral argument put an end to it and give lower court ju...

A desperate Trump, trying to distract from a terrible overseas trip and bribery scandal,l is accusing the former FBI Director of plotting his assassination by posting a photo of seashells arranged on the beach during a morning walk. Michael Popok looks closely at the allegation that all of Trump World has jumped on it, as First Amendment expression remains under attack. IQBAR: Get 20% off all IQBA...

Did the US Supreme Court issuing its 4th loss in a row for Trump, just break him over their knee, and is he about to cry about it in his latest tantrum of a social media post?  Michael Popok connects the dots about the Supreme Court’s Ruling and Trump’s unhinged attack on the Court because — even though he won more votes than Kamala — they won’t let him be a full on fascist tyrant— yet. Miracle Ma...

Trump just suffered his 4th loss in a row at the US Supreme Court, this time another 7-2 ruling that prevents Trump from continuing to fly undocumented people to foreign prisons without proper due process, and before the Supreme Court can ultimately rule on whether he is properly using power under the Alien Enemies Act.  Michael Popok ties the last 4 losses together, and explains how this one mirr...

Trump just had his Director of National Intelligence fire his intelligence community experts because he hated their conclusion that he was wrong about proclaiming that we are at war with Venezuela. Michael Popok reports that Trump is firing people who tell the truth to the American people again. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com...

Just hours after she was indicted by a Wisconsin federal grand jury, Judge Hannah Dugan is fighting back, filing a motion to dismiss her indictment, and citing as a key basis, Trump’s own Supreme Court case giving him immunity from prosecution! Michael Popok pulls it all together in his latest hot take. JubileeTV: For $25 off your order, head to https://GetJubileeTV.com and use code LEGALAF Rememb...

Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo anchor the midweek edition of the Legal AF pod and debate: how Trump is selling the presenting and influencing peddling on his tour of the Arab countries; whether the Supreme Court will pull the plug on birthright citizenship or hand trump another loss tomorrow during its oral argument; how federal judges are resisting Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act;...

Trump along with his Sec of State and Attorney General and Homeland Security Advisor may have been lying to the American people all along about Armando Abrego Garcia, telling anyone that would listen in their base that they are leaving him to rot in El Salvador, while secretly telling the Court that they are working on bringing him home. Michael Popok reports on new filings that explain it all. Sm...

On Popok Live, co-founder of Legal AF Michael Popok brings his unique powers of observation and humor to break this week’s legal and political news including : a breaking update and shocking confession by the Trump Administration in the Abrego Garcia case; a Trump judge sets up a show down with the Supreme Court on the Alien Enemies Act, Trump keeps stealing billions from Americans; the Library of...