Trump Criminal Charges, Republican Maskholes, Cyber Ninjas and Racist Immigration Laws

Published: Aug. 22, 2021, 7 a.m.

b'The\\xa0top-rated weekly law and politics podcast,\\xa0LegalAF, produced by MeidasTouch and anchored by MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, is back for another hard-hitting, thought-provoking, yet entertaining look at this week\\u2019s most compelling developments at the intersection of law and politics.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\nBen and Popok\\xa0lead off with a detailed update of the pending and future state criminal charges\\xa0led by the Manhattan DA against Trump, his company executives and cronies, including those who received last-minute federal pardons by then President Trump.\\nNext, the Analysis Friends look at the Arizona\\xa0appellate court decision to compel the Cyber Ninjas to disclose all their files as public records concerning the Maricopa County \\u201cfraud-it\\u201d.\\xa0\\xa0Talking about bizarre election conduct, Ben and Popok shake their collective heads about Pillow Guy\\u2019s\\xa0\\xa0latest misadventure of hiding from the FBI the Mesa County (Colorado) Clerk who is on the lam for having allegedly disclosed to Q the passcodes to election equipment.\\xa0\\nThen, spanning the country on a whirlwind tour of this week\\u2019s legal developments about mandatory school mask litigation,\\xa0\\xa0Ben and Michael\\xa0explore litigation around the death-rattle of Republican governors\\u2019 executive orders banning school masks in Texas, Arizona, and Florida, and Biden\\u2019s likely response to it all, while reserving a special shout out to the Kentucky Democratic Governor\\xa0and all around thinking person, Andy Beshear and his sensible school mask policy that was just invalidated by a federal judge (appointed by Jimmy Carter no less).\\xa0\\nBen and Popok conclude the episode with a close examination of this week\\u2019s 2 potentially game-changing immigration decisions: (1) a Nevada federal judge\\u2019s finding that a law on the federal books for more than 70 years making it a felony to reenter the country once deported, is both racist and unconstitutional under the 5th Amendment and (2) SCOTUS\\u2019 decision just today to decide on a fast-track whether Biden\\u2019s ending of Trump\\u2019s \\u201cstay in Mexico\\u201d while seeking asylum policy is legal.\\xa0\\nSpecial Easter Egg: Popok makes Ben get up really early to record, and hijinks ensue.\\xa0\\nReminder and Programming Note:\\xa0\\nAll past episodes of Legal AF originally featured on the MeidsTouch podcast can now be found here.\\xa0\\nThank you for listening and remember to tell all your friends to subscribe to Legal AF by MeidasTouch!\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'