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In a stunning and breaking news, this morning in a 7-4 decision the full en banc panel of the US Court of Appeals for DC — with 3 Trump appointees dissenting — has ruled against the Trump Administration and reinstated the two Democrats fired by Trump from independent boards formed by Congress, Gwen Wilcox to her position on the National Labor Relations Board, and Cathy Harris to her position, find...

In breaking news, Chief Justice Roberts has issued a stay of a federal judge’s order requiring that by midnight, KILMAR Armando Abrego Garcia be flown back to the US from his El Salvador prison cell having been sent there illegally by the Trump Administration, and has set a very fast briefing schedule to make a final decision. Michael Popok explains how we got here in this fast-moving story that i...

When you see warped Trump policies that hurt the middle class, follow the money for an explanation. Michael Popok examines how Trump’s insane tariff policies that caused the “dumbest recession ever” overnight, have caused investors to run to the bond market, a market controlled in part by companies owned by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Michael Popok puts on his Wall Street hat to discuss how...

Trump is so weak, that he is threatened by the pacifist former president of Costa Rica who called him a wannabe “Roman emperor” and revoked his US visa, as the Trump Administration helps strong-arm right-wing governments to suppress democratic voices in their own countries. Michael Popok shows how this is a tell-tale sign of a presidency circling the drain in less than 80 days. Get 10% off plus fr...

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast, and tonight discuss: Two separate Federal Judges declaring that the Trump Administration is acting in "bad faith" and committed an "illegal act" concerning its illegal deportation powers; the Supreme Court's alarming decision about Trump's cutting funding and spending and what it means for future cases; MAGA trying to suppress the...

Welcome to the Bear market that Trump created in 24 hours, with China grounding the world economies to a halt with a new 34% tariff, the world recognizing that Trump doesn’t know what the word “reciprocal” means and used a 3rd-grade formula to calculate his tariffs, and JP Morgan doubled its prediction of a recession to 60%. Michael Popok reports that even leading Senate Republicans think that the...

Michael Popok and Dina Sayegh Doll, contributing for KFA, on the top rated Legal AF podcast, discuss: Trump's failed economic plans and "Liberation Day" as contrasted with the Democratic winning big and defeating Musk and Trump in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, and Senator Cory Booker spending 25 hours on the Senate Floor reminding America who the Democrats are; the Supreme Court deciding what...

A California federal judge, citing Trump’s and Kristi Noem’s statements showing illegal hatred and prejudice against the Venezuelan people, has entered a Nationwide Injunction to stop the deportation of Venezuelans here legally under Biden’s extension of their Temporary Protected Status, finding that if they are returned to their unsafe country that Trump declared to be controlled by drug terroris...

When A Rupert Murdoch-controlled paper targets you in the Trump Administration, you know your days are numbered. Howard Lutnick, the ambassador of Liberation Day, who one Trump insider called a “loose cannon pushing half-baked ideas” on Trump, may be the first one “liberated” from his Cabinet post when, not if, the new tariff policies announced Wednesday go terribly awry and backfire on the Americ...

Once a week, Popok is unleashed in a freewheeling and freeform unplugged commentary on Popok Live on the MeidasTouch Network. This week Popok dives into: the NY law firm that represented Shay Moss and Ruby Freeman and obtained their $150 million dollar defamation judgment against Giuliani, just agreed to give the Trump Administration $100 million in free legal services and kill their DEI hiring pr...

Americans are waking up to the fact that Trump’s economic policies are not for them; and polling numbers show that they they understand that Trump is making their lives worse off, as the world economies and what used to be the US trading partners brace for “Liberation Day” on Wednesday, when Trump callously imposes tariffs around the world, pushing the US ever closer to a recession. Michael Popok...

AG Pam “Lock her Up” Bondi and FBI Director Kash “Jail Hillary” Patel have failed the great test by “signaling” that they will NOT open an investigation into whether Espionage Act and other crimes were committed by the top Trump security, defense, and military leaders by leaking war plans in an unsecured messaging platform, as Bondi responds to reporters questions today by blaming Biden, Hunter Bi...

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast, and tonight discuss: 3 straight losses for the Trump Administration, as federal judges block their efforts as violations of the First Amendment and Due Process Rights to blacklist major law firms that once opposed Trump; an update on the fast moving Alien Enemies Act case, in which a federal judge has blocked, affirmed on appeal,...

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...

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 judg...

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 bo...

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...

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 di...

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 g...

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,...

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 le...

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...

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. Michae...

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....

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 ht...