Breyer, Affirmative Action, Seditious Conspiracy Trials, & the Death Penalty

Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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🗓️ 30 January 2022

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Anchored by MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, the top-rated news analysis podcast LegalAF x MeidasTouch is back for another hard-hitting, thought-provoking look in “real time” at this week’s developments. On this episode, Ben and Popok review: 1. The retirement of Stephen Breyer and President Biden’s short list for a new Supreme Court Justice to be confirmed in the next 45 days or so. 2. The Jan6 Committee and the DOJ going after the false “elector” certificate makers and their role in the “Big Lie.” 3. SCOTUS making new (and inhumane) law in the area of the Death Penalty. 4. The same week Biden has a Supreme Court pick, SCOTUS revisiting Affirmative Action in Higher Education. 5. The NY Attorney General firing back at Trump’s federal suit to have her removed as the lead investigator against him. 6. Stewart Rhodes, founder of the ironically named “Oath keepers” charged with Seditious Conspiracy being detained in jail until his trial in the summer, while other Oath keepers charged with Obstruction will be tried in April. 7. A Pennsylvania intermediate appellate court finding that its state’s “mail in voting without excuse” law based on a bipartisan basis in 2019 is violative of the Pennsylvania Constitution. 8. A 3-judge federal trial court rejecting Alabama’s latest attempt to disenfranchise Black voters and finding its “gerrymandered” redistricting map violative of the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. 9. Delays to Sara Palin’s libel case against the New York Times scheduled to begin jury selection this week because she – wait for it—is unvaccinated and caught covid, which didn’t stop her from enjoying a nice Italian dinner in NY without a mask, against NY State law. 10. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) legal troubles following an FBI raid of his home likely related to his close relationship with the oil-oligarchy Azerbaijan. And much more. Reminder: Check out Legal AF's new mid-week show every Wednesday with hosts Michael Popok and new co-anchor veteran prosecutor, policy analyst and defense counsel, Karen Friedman Agnifilo (“KFA”). Watch the latest episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrVqX... Support the Show! Blinkist -- Right now Blinkist has a special offer just for our audience. Go to https://Blinkist.com/LEGALAF to start your free 7 day trial and get 25% off of a Blinkist Premium membership. Super Speciosa -- Super Speciosa is offering Legal AF listeners 20% off all of their amazing kratom products when you use promo code "LegalAF" at checkout. Head over to https://GetSuperLeaf.com/LegalAF to get started. Smith.AI -- Work uninterrupted, run your business with less stress, and get more leads from your marketing efforts. Save $100 when you sign up using promo code "LegalAF" at https://www.smith.ai AG1 by Athletic Greens -- Athletic Greens is going to give you an immune supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit https://athleticgreens.com/legalaf today. SHOW LESS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to MidasTouch Legal AF. If it's the weekend, it is Legal AF. Ben Micellas, Michael
0:12.0	Polpock breaking down the critical legal issues of the week indigestible ways that you
0:20.6	could understand some have called this Legal AF University. We are not an accredited
0:28.3	law school, but we do feel that we are teaching you the law, the nooks and crannies, the nuts
0:35.2	and bolts, the popokian, everything. Michael Polpock, how are you doing this weekend?
0:42.8	It's crazy. We're the Thomas and the English muffins of law schools. We do the nooks and
0:48.0	the crannies. Yeah, we got it. We're getting, we're on our way to a foot of snow with men
0:53.2	hadn't, but it did not stop me from, as people know from the tweet this morning, did not
0:58.0	stop me from heading into the office wearing ski goggles and digging my way out to make
1:04.1	it to my podcast studio, ie my office so that I could spend another Saturday night with
1:09.7	you.
1:10.7	Polpock, you don't know this, but I have some business meetings that are scheduled this
1:15.7	upcoming week in New York. So I may be seeing you in person, but that blizzard out there
1:22.0	or that bomb cyclone as it's being called, it's certainly giving me some pause. Should I
1:27.7	come? Should I not come? I think you should, A, you should come. B, we need to see each
1:32.7	other for various reasons. If you're in town long enough, maybe we do a live podcast, although
1:37.7	we still have the mask man going on in New York right now. But yes, come, it's going to be,
1:42.3	we're New Yorkers. This thing gets cleared out by tomorrow and we're up and running. I took
1:47.4	a, I took an Uber here through the snow this morning. So don't worry about that. And before
1:52.3	we move on, talking about Sartorial things, loving the baby Yoda shirt for those that are
1:58.1	watching us tonight and on YouTube in the future. What is that all about?
2:03.6	Well, it was a gift that was given to me from my girlfriend, Sochi, she got this for me,
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