Welcome to the midweek edition of Legal A.F, the podcast at the intersection of law and politics.

I'm Michael Popak. I'm joined with my regular co-anchor, Karen Friedman Ignifalo, and we sit at the intersection of law and politics so that you don't have to, at least not every hour every day. We do it here on the Midas Touch Network.

And today's curated topics, Karen,

I think we need to touch on Judge Zinnis and how she's handling the Abrago-Garcia case,

the fact that in particular she is getting one step closer. I think she's on the, I think it's 1159 and midnight

when it strikes is going to be contempt in the, in the Abrago Garcia case. She's had it with the

Trump administration and the game playing. She's had it with them violating her orders. She's

done it properly. She's waited a month and a half to two months

to give the other side the rego garcia's the side time to put together their motion to develop their

discovery but now she's given them a week from today file their motion she could well be not the first

judge but the second judge to find this administration in contempt of court.

And then we've, in continuing our sort of profile is encouraged here, people fighting back,

you've got the mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Shout out to New Jersey. Proud New Jersey and

the largest city of New Jersey is Newark, and its mayor,

Mayor Baraka is running for governor. He's on the short list of people, the Democratic Party, who would

run for president. But Alina Haba, as political henchman for Donald Trump, forgot that she was the head of the

office of the Department of Justice there, the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey,

and decided to make political mincemeat out of Mayor Baraka, arresting him, putting his hands behind his back, cuffing him, and taking him away when all he was doing is heading down to the immigration detention center that had been built

and is operated in Newark along with members of Congress. And after she decided to dismiss

the trespass case and was excoriated by a federal magistrate in doing so because having even brought the charges

finally mayor baraka is fighting back and filed the new lawsuit for fourth amendment violations

and defamation against the lena haba cases mainly against the lena haba and a guy named ricky

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