Sessions, Barr and Trump's Illegal Targeting of Journalists

Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 12 of LegalAF (#LAF), MeidasTouch’s Sunday law and politics podcast, hosts MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, explore the Garland Department of Justice (DOJ) three-ways, first tackling the recent revelations that Sessions and Barr, doing former 45’s bidding, created an enemies list and subpoenaed not only journalists’ phone, text and email records, but also targeted some of the highest ranking members of the US Congress, like Rep. Adam Schiff. Then, Ben and Popok analyze the DOJ’s return to muscular enforcement of the Voting Rights Act to prevent voter intimidation and minority discrimination against the 14 states that have recently passed voter suppression laws under the guise of “election integrity.” To round out the DOJ segment, the co-hosts discuss why on occasion the current DOJ feels compelled to continue to support some positions taken in court by Former’s DOJ, like the one seeking the dismissal of a defamation case brought against him arising out of a sexual assault. Next up, the “Analysis Friends,” take a deep dive into all things SCOTUS as this term comes to an end, including the eyebrow-raising 9-0 decision to deny a path to citizenship for the almost 500K people in the United States here under Temporary Protected Status program. SCOTUS’s decision to hear two (2) separate cases based on the government’s use of the “state secrets” defense also leads Ben and Michael to handicap the odds of the Court using the cases to weaken the defense (unlikely). After a brief tutorial on crypto currency like Bitcoin and why it's loved by the criminal underworld, and the power of the federal government to seek asset forfeiture of bitcoins used in ransomware attacks, the podcast brings this action-packed episode to a roaring conclusion by discussing whether MeidasTouch should go after Fox for refusing to air its January 6th insurrection ad on television, Popok challenges MeidasTouch’s “PAC-hood,” and Ben fires back! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Midas Touch Legal AF podcast, the AF stands for Analysis Friends.
0:14.1	Ben Micellus here of Garagos and Garagos, joined by Michael Popak of Zumphano Patricius
0:20.9	and Popak.
0:22.8	We are your weekly enablers of legal dissection.
0:28.9	Welcome to another episode on our new day, new time, Sunday, great to be here, Popak.
0:35.6	How are you doing?
0:36.6	I'm doing great.
0:37.6	And if it's Sundays, it must be legal, AF.
0:41.4	Exactly.
0:42.4	Exactly.
0:43.4	We have a lot to talk about today, including some minus touch legal battles.
0:52.0	He knows that Popak has become the, essentially, the general counsel of all Midas Touch related
1:01.4	legal matters, which has kept us all incredibly busy enough for, I think, a whole law firm
1:07.4	based on Midas Touch's battles with Fox and other enablers of the GQP will get to that
1:14.4	at the end of the podcast, but we've been hearing a lot about the Department of Justice.
1:21.4	So I want to get in and I want to talk about all these various issues surrounding the
1:26.9	Department of Justice and just at a very basic level, the Justice Department, what is it?
1:33.5	It's the Federal Executive Department of the United States government.
1:37.8	It's tasked with enforcement of federal law and the administration of justice was formed
1:44.0	in 1870 in terms of at least the modern incarnation of what the Justice Department
1:50.4	is.
1:51.4	It's headquartered, of course, in Washington, DC, the current Attorney General is Merrick
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