Michael Popoc, Legal A.F. was in breaking news. I did earlier today a hot take talking about why the second attempt to remove the criminal trial of Donald Trump being convicted on 34 felony counts trying to drag it across the street to Judge Hellerstein and the federal court was doomed to failure.

I just didn't know how quick that doom was coming. It came in the same day.

As one of our producers said, Jeff Bessos would be proud of this same day delivery by Judge Hellerstein.

We already have the order and it is exactly what I said was going to happen.

He denied it. He found there was no good cause for him

as a federal judge to interfere with a state court proceeding where there's already been a conviction

and were just before sentencing. That's exactly what Donald Trump and his

lawyers wanted. They wanted to interfere with Judge Mershawn who's about to sentence

Donald Trump on the 18th of September and they went and went and cried for help

with Judge Hellerstein except they screwed it up they

didn't follow the rules they didn't follow the law when you file a notice of

removal after there's been an arraignment after there's been a trial in this case after there's been a

conviction you have to show good cause you also have to overcome another doctrine that all

appellate courts know that all appellate judges know and which this judge relied on

which is known as the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. See this is why you come to

legal AF because you learn about the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. What it says is a

federal judge is divested of jurisdiction and can't disturb

certain state court rulings because they can't sit as a supras state court. They're not a state court and they can't, they have

original jurisdiction and they can't interfere with things that have already

happened at the state court level, especially convictions and things about to be

sentenced under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine

named after two separate cases at the United States Supreme Court that we in the law refer to as that

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