Judges Make Unprecedented Move to Address DOJ Lies

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

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Trump has so destroyed the DOJ’s reputation for candor and integrity that federal judges won’t handle their cases unless a court reporter takes down every word in a transcript to ensure that their words are not twisted out of all meaning. Michael Popok looks at new reporting that Trump’s former criminal lawyer Emil Bove is running amok at the DOJ, destroying its Public Integrity Unit and its Civil Rights Division to use the DOJ to intimidate students on college campuses and threaten them with deportation or worse to chill their First Amendment expression. Allermi: For 60% off your order, head to https://Allermi.com and use code LEGALAF. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Career federal prosecutors, federal judges and magistrates don't believe a word the Department of Justice under Pam Bondi, Emil Bovet, and Todd Blanche have to say, and are taking extraordinary steps to protect the rule of law.
0:16.1	This coming out of some new reporting in the New York Times and other places about how Emil Beauvais, who was once
0:21.9	Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer, now the number three in the Department of Justice, he's the
0:26.9	henchman, he's the bad cop. He might be the homicidal cop to Todd Blanche's bad cop, his found a way to go
0:34.3	after and try to intimidate a student organization on Columbia and Barnard's campus
0:40.3	under the guise of trying to get to the bottom of anti-Semitism on campus, ordering prosecutors to do extraordinary and unethical things
0:51.0	to try to intimidate the student group who has a First Amendment right to express
0:55.6	whatever it is as long as it's not in support of terrorism.
1:00.1	But that wasn't good enough for Beauvais.
1:02.2	And when he lost an issue or had his lawyers, his lawyers lost an issue before a federal
1:08.5	judge, a magistrate judge took an extraordinary step. She said, basically,
1:13.6	in effect, I don't trust the Department of Justice. And when you go back to the federal judge
1:20.0	that's responsible for this case, you take a transcript of everything that was said in my
1:24.5	courtroom back to him. So there's an accurate record. Wow.
1:29.0	I'm Michael Popak. You're wow. You're on legal A.F. and Midas touch. Let's get into it.
1:34.7	A lot of new reporting about how the Trump administration and its senior DOJ officials are using
1:41.7	their bully pulpit to intimidate in a way we've never seen prosecutors
1:46.4	ever do before, maybe because they're ethical rules that say you cannot do that. And the DOJ
1:51.6	guideline, which the DOJ officials for Trump seem to have only a passing interest in, only a passing
1:58.1	acquaintance of, seemed to be allergic to the DOJ manual, would not permit.
2:03.4	And so when Bovet decided to go after the Columbia apartheid divest group at Columbia University
2:10.9	and a Barnard campus, he ordered his civil rights division.
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