Welcome to the midweek edition of Legal AF Legal AF Wednesdays with your host Michael Popak.

I'm Karen Freibnag-Nifolo.

And today Karen and I are going to do three stories that are ripped from the headlines.

One can a federal court judge take steps to stop Marjorie Taylor Greene from being on the ballot for re-election.

Under the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause.

Two, what went wrong with the governor, Whitmer of Michigan kidnapping trial, and why did a federal jury let two of them walk, acquitted them, and hung on the additional counts for two others.

What happened there? I want to hear it from the former prosecutor, KFA, and three.

It was inevitable to happen in the land of SB 8 and Handmaid's Tale in Texas.

A Texas hospital turned in a woman who used abortion-inducing pills for murder.

And she was so indicted by the local sheriff there in Stark County, Texas wherever that is.

And a prosecutor put on a cape and put a stop to it.

We're going to talk about that from our former prosecutor's perspective as well.

Well, Karen, we got a lot to talk about, and a lot of things right in your wheelhouse. Are you excited?

I am. And you look so nice tonight in your suit, Popok.

Thank you. I wanted to lead you to believe that it was only for you and the audience, my, my double-brusted suit.

We were going to have, as we announced last week, Robbie Kaplan, lawyer extraordinaire, who was litigating the don't say gay constitutional case in the Northern District of Florida.

But because, you know, like you and me, she's a practicing attorney, something came up.

And we're going to postpone it for a week or two.

But so I dressed up a slightly nicer for Robbie.

But I, you know, I could do this with you.

Just we could just dress nicely every time we do a podcast. Why not?

Well, you're also a lawyer by day.

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