Justice Served, Justice Delayed, and a SCOTUS Justice is Made

Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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News Commentary, News

4.9 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

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 look in “real time” at this week’s most important developments. On this episode, Ben and Popok discuss and analyze: 1. President Biden’s selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (KBJ) as the next US Supreme Court Justice to replace Breyer and her path to confirmation. 2. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s loss of his two lead Trump prosecutors, the appointment of a new prosecutor, the role of Governor Hochul and what it all means. 3. Oklahoma’s proposed 30-day abortion ban and what it also means for Texas women. 4. The conviction on federal race discrimination charges of the other police officers who contributed to the murder of George Floyd by Chauvin. 5. The conviction of Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers on federal hate crime charges. 6. The Woman’s Soccer Team reaching a landmark settlement with the United States Soccer Federation to address years of gender inequity in pay and working conditions. 7. A State judge in Memphis reverses course and orders a new trial for Pam Moses who was convicted and sentenced to 6 years in prison for trying to vote while still on probation. And much more. Support the Show! 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. Calibrate -- Your weight doesn’t reflect your willpower. Get back in control with Calibrate. Get $50 off the one year metabolic reset when you use promo code LEGALAF at https://JoinCalibrate.com ExpressVPN -- Protect your online activity TODAY with the VPN rated #1 by Business Insider. Visit https://ExpressVPN.com/LegalAF and you can get an extra 3 months FREE on a one-year package. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Midas Touch Legal AF. If it's Saturday, it is Legal AF Live. If it's Sunday,
0:11.4	it is also Legal AF. It's Legal AF basically every day of the week, then, my cellist,
0:17.8	and Michael Popak delivering and downloading you with the legal cases of the week, the
0:24.4	key legal issues of the week, the key legal issues of our time in digestible ways that you can
0:31.1	all understand Legal AFers. We've got a lot to talk about this week, Michael Popak. Welcome
0:38.6	and great seeing you. Hey, you two, Ben. This one I could not wait for you and I to record tonight,
0:45.4	just so many great things for us to talk about, a lot of updates. But, you know, just as a heads
0:53.1	up to you and to the, uh, and to our followers and listeners, this is episode 51. This is our
0:59.8	51st podcast together doing Legal AF. We're coming up on our, our birthday soon.
1:06.0	Wow, we didn't. I thought we should have probably celebrated 50. That's usually a milestone.
1:11.7	We kind of glossed right over 50. But here at Legal AF, the milestone is 51 congrats on
1:18.4	hitting 51 maybe at episode 107. Popak, we can also celebrate maybe 211. We can just celebrate
1:27.3	at the oddest of numbers. But I think as we reflect on this week's legal news, I think I want to
1:34.4	talk a lot about temperament of a good lawyer because there are lots of ups and downs in the life
1:45.0	of a trial lawyer. And there are lots of ups and downs in legal news. And last week we reported
1:52.6	on a lot of great important developments in the various prosecutions of Trump. This week we're going
2:01.8	to be reporting on some developments that are not so good. Granted, there are some conflicting
2:08.6	reports about the Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg and what he's doing or what he's not
2:15.8	doing out of the district attorney's office. But later in the podcast, we're going to talk about how
2:20.6	he lost his two top deputies, his two top prosecutors who were incredibly experienced,
2:30.6	incredibly talented prosecutors who were leading the investigation. Mark Pomerans and
2:38.2	Carrie Dunne have left that prosecution. Alvin Bragg confirmed it. The governor of New York,
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