Trump Under Investigation, Obamacare Saved, and the #RetireBreyer Movement

Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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🗓️ 20 June 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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On a “Baker’s Dozen” Episode 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, first explore the House Judiciary's decision to open an investigation into the Former’s misuse of subpoena power against the media, Apple, and Democratic leaders. Next up, the Legal AF analysts drill down on 3 new SCOTUS decisions: (1) 9-0, affecting LGBTQ+ foster parent rights, (2) 8-1, addressing child slavery lawsuits against Nestlé under the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 (ATS); and (3) a 7-2 decision crafted by Justice Breyer confirming the constitutionality of Obamacare once and for all. Speaking of Breyer, Ben and Michael give their views on the growing #RetireBreyer movement seeking to have him step down before the midterms to given Biden a guaranteed SCOTUS pick. Walrus-alert: Ben and Popok discuss the DOJ’s decision to end both the criminal and civil cases against former National Security Advisor John Bolton for publishing a memoir which the Former did not like. Easter egg alert: Popok slips in a Hamilton: The Musical reference. Rounding out the podcast, the Analysis Friends discuss Biden’s decision to protect transgender and gay students under Title IX from discrimination and retaliation in higher education in response to 20 states attempting to ban transgender students from competing in sport. And no #LAF pod would be complete without Ben and Popok discussing some gun-toting political candidate, in this case the white St. Louis Republican attorneys who brandished guns and AR-15s when peaceful #BLM protestors marched past their wealthy enclave, and the husband’s decision to now run for the US Senate. Finally, and for added fun, Ben, perhaps listening too intently to a “supersonic dog siren,” forgets momentarily just which legal podcast he is actually hosting, prompting Popok to ask if Ben’s law partner (and host of another legal podcast) is renting space in Ben’s head. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.9	Friends.
0:44.9	Ben Myceles of Garagos and Garagos joined by Michael Popak of Zupano Patricius and Popak
0:53.0	Michael Popak.
0:54.9	How are you doing this weekend?
0:56.8	I am doing terrific, we're recording from a remote location again, Popak on the move.
1:03.1	We are coast-to-coast, cover-to-cover with all the legal info fit to podcast.
1:08.7	I love it, and Popak, you know, there is a little bit of an internal feud brewing, you
1:15.6	know, my law partner, Mark Erragos, who clearly listens to the legal AF podcast.
1:22.4	He threw in a little line the other day, which he said to me in connection with the very
1:27.8	positive result he did on one of our cases.
1:30.8	He made a comment he goes, so next time, Ben, you say that legal AF is the number one podcast.
1:37.5	You may want to think again because Mark is the host of the reasonable doubt legal podcast.
1:45.5	And I think Mark was taking it a little to heart that we were saying we're the number
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