Special Edition: MeidasTouch Presents 'Legal AF', Episode 7

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4.9 • 56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

On Episode 7 of Legal AF, MeidasTouch’s weekly law and politics podcast, hosts MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, first drill down on the “dawn raid” and search warrant on former Trump consigliere, Rudy Giuliani based on “probable cause” that the former “America’s Mayor” committed a federal crime related to the Trump Administration’s dealings with Ukraine. And for added fun, Ben and Michael discuss who is leading in the “Fredo” award race – Don Jr. or Andrew Giuliani, while commenting on the rogues' gallery of convicted, soon to be convicted and/or trying to be convicted allies of the Former 45 all attempting to witness tamper. Next up, the “Analysis Friends” tackle the aftermath of the Chauvin conviction in two ways. First, they examine the attack on one of the 12 jurors for posting photos to social media showing that he supported #BLM on his way to a march celebrating MLK in DC, and discuss whether this could give rise to a successful appeal by Chauvin. Then Ben and Michael take a hard look at the DOJ’s decision to not only criminally prosecute Chauvin and the other 3 cops involved for civil rights violations under the 4th Amendment, but to also investigate the entire Minneapolis police department. Ben and Michael then update on the Cyber Ninja/Q-anon “ballot recount” farce playing out in Arizona under Trump’s guidance. And last but not the least crazy, “Miami” Michael walks Ben through the Miami private school whose socialite and DeSantis-supporting owners took almost $1 million in federal bailout funds and then thought it would be ok to violate every one of its teacher’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) rights by firing them if they decided to get the COVID-19 vaccine. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/meidastouch/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/meidastouch/support 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 A stands for analysis and the F stands for
0:14.4	friends. Ben Myceles here of Garagos and Garagos also of course of Midas Touch and Michael
0:22.0	Popak of Zuprano, Patricia and Popak. Michael Popak, how you doing today?
0:28.6	I'm doing really great. I can't believe another week has passed. We're up to episode seven.
0:34.7	And fortunately for our followers, there's lots of new stuff to talk about.
0:40.0	People love Midas Touch legal AF. Some of the Midas Touch legal AF podcast fans go as far as to say
0:50.9	they like the legal podcast better than the Midas Touch podcast. It's a very controversial position.
0:59.2	But I think I see it both ways. On the one hand, you got the brother banter, you got the brothers
1:06.2	going after each other and then telling the news without really the legal analysis. On legal AF,
1:12.8	you got the Ben, you got the Popak banter back and forth. And we go deep into these legal issues.
1:19.7	And I think the problem with legal analysis generally is that lawyers sometimes give lawyers
1:26.7	a very bad name. They're very disconnected from reality and don't talk like straight shooters
1:34.0	to people. And we try to deliver this in basic, understandable, digestible ways. And we use the
1:41.6	current events and the political landscape as entry points to teach these important legal issues.
1:49.1	Yeah, I think one of the most satisfying things if you and I doing this and we start talking about
1:54.0	and almost at the moment you launched Midas Touch with your brothers and we did some early,
1:59.0	early, early tapes that people can find them online. I think we've come a long way in the last year
2:04.0	both production values and analysis. But the most rewarding thing has been for me
2:10.2	getting tweets and direct messages from our followers who have complimented our ability
2:17.5	to really explain complicated legal and constitutional legal issues in a way that they both find
2:25.5	entertaining and instructive. And we didn't want a whole audience of lawyers. We wanted exactly what
2:34.0	we're getting, which is interested and interesting people who want to know more about the law and not
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