The Jan 6th Fund and IRS Settlement Legal Challenges

0:00Welcome to Legal.aft on the Midas Touch Network. I'm Ben Mycelis and just a little bit will be joined by our co-host Michael Popakis on vacation, but of course Michael Popak would not miss a Legal.aft with all of the breaking legal news to discuss this week. Midas Touch breaking down the breaking legal news also Midas Touch in the legal news making legal news. Midas Touch co-host Katie Fang pushing with her lawsuit against Todd Blanche and the Trump Department of Justice under the Epstein Transparency Act to release the files that are still being concealed. A major order was issued in the federal courthouse in Washington DC in Katie Fang's case, a big win for Katie Fang, a big win for transparency and there will be a major hearing this week Todd Blanche and the DOJ have been ordered to appear to answer questions before Judge Sullivan will break down for you what the court order is there. This happens the same week that Todd Blanche sadly was confirmed as

1:05Attorney General. We warned you you can never have any faith in the spineless mega sick of int bootlickers, even mega sick of int bootlickers who have had their entire careers destroyed by Donald Trump whether that Senator Tillis of North Carolina whether it's Senator Cornyn of Texas or Senator Cassidy of Louisiana you can always count on these individuals to do the wrong things. That's one of the reasons we're in this hell in the first place are pathetic men usually like these mega bootlicking sick offence who think more about still being invited to their MAGA country club than throwing the entire American democracy in the trash but that's why we need fighters and we need to be the fighters too we can't be looking for heroes we need to do it ourselves and that's why it's such an honor and privilege to work with Katie Fang this past week as well another hero David Hurn had his case officially dismissed by Trump's DOJ we talked last week how they requested the dismissal but now

2:10that case is officially dismissed Donald Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic he still did it he's really a vandal further defamation by a despicable little tiny disgusting thing in the Oval Office the again just so utterly offensive but that's Trump's whole life he's a bankrupt her he's a defammer he's a fraud he's a tarot he's a horrible human and that's how horrible humans behave also for other cases that were filed by the DOJ where they fabricated evidence against people they called vandals that was dismissed so big loss for Donald Trump there that's good news other good news the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and a two to one ruling block Donald Trump's further construction of the ballroom they did give a 14 day period for Trump to file an appeal their order stayed in otherwise it's pause for 14 days for Trump to issue or make an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court Donald Trump's obviously going to do that he is a terrible loser but a lifelong loser and now he's

3:12saying my ballroom is a drone port it's the whole the whole thing is a military operation the whole thing that's what I really wanted to do I wanted a turn the White House into a military target that's what I wanted to turn the people's house into and then Donald Trump posting some real sick messages as well because the DC Circuit Court of Appeals said look the president is a temporary tenant of the White House that shouldn't be a controversial statement and Trump goes I'm not the tenant I'm the president and I have rights I have rights as the president you have the obligation to be a public servant and under the Constitution article two to take care that the laws are faithfully executed you are a steward although you don't behave like that you are a steward of the Constitution to take care that laws are faithfully executed and Congress passes laws and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals very clearly said under the property clause of the Constitution the funding for construction

4:17and for major alterations in the White House lies with Congress go do a law and then you can take care that that law be faithfully executed and you can do your renovation so we'll talk about that we'll talk about BBC right Donald Trump scared of BBC all unfortunately it was a Trump appoint to judge though in the Southern District of Florida after the discovery judge who's referred to as a magistrate judge ruled that Donald Trump needs to turn over his financial records because he sued BBC for $10 billion back in was a December of 2025 saying they defamed him for a documentary that just aired in the UK on panorama that didn't air in the United States he said you defame me $10 billion my businesses were harmed so BBC says okay your business were harmed produce your records Donald Trump's like those don't belong to me those belong to the trust that's a third party the Donald J trust isn't me I'm Donald that's the trust they're represented by a different person okay BBC said well then have them turn it over because you're demanding $10 billion so I want to

5:21know how you were damaged $10 billion when you made billions and billion first off there wasn't defamation they said second off how are you damaged $10 billion by what by us splicing together a video and you believe that it defamed you by showing that you supported the January 6th insurrection that's your claim of defamation of character right here um federal magistrate judge said Donald turn over your records you're suing for $10 billion the federal judge supervises the magistrate so a magistrate judge is not appointed or confirmed they are hired basically by federal judges and they handled discovery and they handle some things in criminal cases but in civil cases they handle discovery so Trump sought an emergency action from the federal judge uh who was a judge who Trump appointed in 2019 and the judge was like okay Donald do you want to change your entire lawsuit now when Trump's like yes I do I want to change my lawsuit so Trump wants to now even after

6:24he blew all of the deadlines because the time to change your lawsuit or amend your complaint would have been back in March was the you know when you're a lawyer you have to follow deadlines right and if you miss them especially in federal court you don't get to go to judges and go judge please please you miss the deadline you miss the deadline that's life right that's not a democrat or a republican thing that's being an adult thing and being a professional thing especially in federal court deadlines are very important in the law they're very important so Trump misses the dead the deadlines and goes but now I have an emergency they're going to see my confidential business records and all of the money and I can't let them see that so judge can I change my lawsuit and a judge who Trump appointed because Trump's terrified of BBC right scared of BBC but the judge who Trump appointed said okay Donald we'll pause your obligation to turn over documents to BBC show me how you're going to amend the complaint how you're going to change and Trump's like well

7:25I'm just going to say my reputation was harmed by $10 billion I'm not going to say that my businesses were harmed my reputation was a $10 billion right this fool this coward he goes around he suits everybody for $10 billion oh my reputation my reputation meanwhile and popok will cover this meanwhile what was the thing that he wanted most of all when he sued in another case for $10 billion the IRS and the Treasury Department what he want tax immunity that's the main thing that he wanted he didn't want to pay his taxes and those same cowardly mega republican senators gave him that him you said that they were okay with the DOJ and during into that agreement with him or they were not going to compel Todd Blanche to actually void the settlement agreement which is what they said they were going to do there was a May 18th and May 19th settlement agreement in Trump's stupid lawsuit I mean frivolous lawsuit against the Treasury Department and the IRS remember

8:28and they said well it's okay he clarified the scope what do you mean he clarified the scope the scope we know what it was it was tax immunity for him and his family and his trust and all of his entities he clarified that we knew that so what do you even talking about in any event you have in the lawsuit that was filed in Virginia in federal court where the plaintiffs blocked the anti weaponization fund or whatever the hell Trump calls it for the J6ers which Trump really doesn't even care about he does care is about his own tax immunity in that case the plaintiffs amended their lawsuit to now include allegations to block the tax immunity and the argument is if you look at the so there's a case in Virginia and the argument is in Trump's initial lawsuit in Florida the federal judge they are Kathleen Williams found that the entire settlement agreement is void it was done by collusion it's an improper agreement

9:31using her name on the agreement and acting like that was a settlement in her court it wasn't she said that's not something that occurred here and so in Virginia now in a separate lawsuit the argument as well look in Trump's case against the IRS and Treasury Department the federal judge there said it's void so if the anti weaponization fund is void the whole thing is void because the settlement agreement is voided by the judge because it was done by collusion and fraud and you can't have a settlement agreement made by collusion and fraud so they amended their complaints and they want a preliminary injunction there popok will break that down he also is going to talk a little bit about Lisa Cook what's going on with the federal reserve governor and Trump's attempt to now fire her by creating a kangaroo court that will try to find forecaused basis to terminate her with the foregone conclusion type of stuff you see in banana republics and in authoritarian regimes we'll talk about that popok will talk about the capital one case where they push back against Donald

10:38saying that they didn't debank him because he's Trump they didn't let him bank there because certain triggers of money laundering were flagged and when those are flagged no matter who you are if you're Trump if you're dump if you're gump if you're stump whatever your name is doesn't matter this criteria is hit the bank has an obligation not to bank you and they said that's what we were doing we were following the criteria all right so in other words we've got a lot to discuss I covered a lot of it there let's just go at the outset and talk about Katie Feng's case so you know Katie Feng sued under the Epstein Transparency Act she sought a preliminary injunction her preliminary injunction was granted the court ordered that the DOJ do certain things the DOJ didn't do it so then the court said send send me certain documents I want to look at them immediately I want to understand why you have certain categories of redactions and why you are redacting people who appear to be co-conspirators the bad guys their names appear to be redacted show me why you're

11:42redacting their names and we should unredact their names but let me justify those redactions then show me the notes regarding FBI 302 reports regarding an underage girl who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault of Trump denies those allegations but there's an FBI 302 report which says Donald Trump and their allegations against him produce the notes you just produce the 302 report I want to see those notes and then the court said tell me what's going on with the privilege log I want to know about what's happening with the other five million documents that you have been produced what's the update there the DOJ fully violated the court order didn't do anything so this past week federal judge Sullivan ordered the DOJ to now show up August 13th 2026 regarding the redaction log or privilege log the judge said I want all of the five million documents

12:43I want to know when you're going to have a justification for withholding every single one of the five million documents that you have been turned over I'm not asking you if you're going to I want a timeline of when that's going to be done that's a big win for Katie thing the judge said why aren't you producing the notes of the FBI interview about the allegations against Trump you're saying because it's substantially similar to the FBI report that's not a that's not a reason to withhold under the Epstein transparency act and if you're withholding documents by coming up with your own category of exclusion substantially similar that's another reason why I want to see your privilege log and your redaction log is that how you're withholding lots of other documents in appropriately and then the court talks about how we want to understand why you're labeling people who appear to be the bad guys the co-conspirators the powerful men why are you redacting their names why are you covering them up in the filing that blanche previously made he said well it's because their lawyers

13:48called up and said their victims so you see what Katie Fendon covered here and this is amongst many reasons why she's so heroic because what we've been able to now identify through Katie Fendon's courage through her pushing this forward is a really broader sick conspiracy where it appears that Trump's DOJ would go to all of these wealthy men these powerful men who are implicated in the files and they would say here's how we're going to help you call up with your powerful high paid lawyers and tell the DOJ that you're the victim if you tell us the DOJ you're the victim will have to acknowledge that you're the victim and we won't show your name and we will hide you and we will basically that's our way that's our loophole around the Epstein transparency act because it's intended to protect the victims so bad guys perpetrators co-conspirators just say you're a victim and then we'll just say got it you're a victim and we'll acknowledge that. Meanwhile the real

14:53victims and survivors were tormented and tortured one by Epstein and by the co-conspirators and by the Trump DOJ because their information was leaked their privacy their photos their dignity was not respected but the bad guys claimed victim protection and Judge Sullivan is on to that Katie Fang is on to that big hearing happening on August 13th great work Katie Fang let's talk about the big ruling as well regarding the ballroom Donald Trump's golden ball my golden ballroom a golden ballroom it was a two to one ruling two judges to one and in this ruling you had and obviously the Trump judge who's trying to judge Rao who's trying to get on the Supreme Court was the one who gave the Trump sick of in boot liquor ruling but really in short the ruling boiled down to

15:55uh the property clause of the United States Constitution provides that these alterations these adjustments these any demolition obviously it requires Congress I mean the Constitution makes it very clear that this is Congress has to approve it and pay for it and if you can get Congress's approval all good in terms of national security if you're claiming underneath the ballroom you're building bunkers and hospitals and all of these things and that there is a actual national security basis for it you can still do that as the federal judge judge Leon who by the way is a George W. Bush appointee already ordered saying look the ballroom itself that needs Congress if you want to improve the bunker underneath or build a hospital or whatever then you can do that with taxpayer

16:55money um but you can't and this is what the judge said though too in the district court I'm not stupid like you can't claim the ballroom is the military installation to get around this order the judge made that very clear and the DC Circuit acknowledged the federal courts order saying there's no loophole just to claim the entire ballroom is a military facility and judge Leon and the DC Circuit and ruling against Donald Trump also used Trump's words against him because Trump's lawyers said that they were independently building the bunker and all of these things and that was separate and apart from the ballroom and the reason that they were saying that also is because they wanted to use taxpayer dollars for all of this stuff and they wanted to make it seem like what we were using the money of Trump's billionaire buds to build the ballroom so that's separate there's

17:56an underground project that's why we had to do it so quickly but the ballroom is being paid for over here and that's why we didn't go to Congress because it's being funded by the billionaires or whatever who are obviously in on these quid pro quo and then that's why we did the hospital and the bunkers and all of these secret military installations or whatever the hell they're trying to come up with I mean such a ridiculous, demented regime so in any event the federal court and the DC Circuit said your own lawyer said these are separate things so you can't claim the ballroom is now foreign is like a shield for you and also to see Trump's paranoia so Trump's golfing obviously golf today he golf's all weekend he golf's now with an E3 one of those surveillance planes are always up in the sky he's terrified of Iran right now and he's paranoid that they're always

18:58going to try to get him while he's golfing and it's truly haunting him right now one of the things that Trump and his sycophants have said was well what do we do now we've already we have this hole in the ground what do we do what do we do well judge Leon Bush appointee address this point as Dan Diamond explains defendants predictably object arguing that any delay to construct would imperil national security and expose the White House to damage grasping for straws defendants call the construction site a coordinated and managed safety hazard that has disrupted existing security protocols in other words they broke it and now they're complaining and saying well now it's a security threat to us because we have this hole in the ground and we have all of this material everywhere so now it's a national security concern to Trump because he destroyed it and now we have this big hole in the ground and that's dangerous thus according to defendants trump any construction delay will undermine national security that Donald Trump now caused the problem for himself please

20:04the judge goes please exclamation point while I take seriously the government's concern regarding the safety and security of the White House grounds and the president himself the existence of a large hole besides the White House is of course a problem of the president's own making ball assertions of national security cannot excuse the government's failure to follow the law and then insulate those failures from judicial review and that was affirmed by the DC Circuit and that's a that's a busher pointing man that's like what a Republican judge once was you know where I would see stuff that that judge would do and I'd probably disagree with a lot not not that I'm just saying in normal times you know we may have different broader perspectives on things but you would respect the judge it's judge smart intelligent well reasoned you wouldn't really see their politics drip into the rulings you would see them apply the law and you know they may come out certain

21:06ways differently than you'd like but that's the way it used to be George W. Bush appointee these this whole new batch of Trump's sick of fantic judges though are unqualified young people often who don't know the law and who are just mega bootleckers and that's why I've been showing you a lot of their confirmation hearings where they all show up and they're all just like you know they all they can't even answer the basic who won the election oh there's a electoral college that's who won who won you know you have this whole crop of just like awful terrible people but judge Leon's good judge so Trump's been posting drone port this is my drone port look this whole thing is a military asset sits on top of the ballroom why would you want to turn the White House into a military target though like just at a common sense level why would you what we have military bases why would you want even at just the most logic level so in an all-out war you want the White House to be saying

22:07as a legitimate military target under the rules of war by turning it into a drone port I mean and and this AI slop on top of it when what the hell is this even on top of it I mean why why are there military trucks and why do these drones look gigantic and why is there an entire army I mean like well how dystopian and sick is this right like if you if you wrote about this scene in some sci-fi book with these drone port posts and you describe that scene in a sci-fi dystopian alternative history type book which I used to enjoy growing up but I can't enjoy them now I don't enjoy I don't enjoy those shows anymore I don't enjoy those books anymore because it's real life and we're in the trenches fighting it so I just can't watch that stuff anymore personally but you'd be like come on what are you talking about here I'll leave you with this though because here is what Donald Trump's been posting I could show you 40 of these but I'll just show you one

23:09two judges one appointed by Barack Hussein Obama the other by sleepy Joe Biden set in a ruling on the desperately needed secure ballroom military complex including a major drone port on the roof that quote each president is a temporary tenant of the White House then Trump says we are not tenants who pay rent and do all other things that a tenant must do we are presidents elected by the people of the United States of America and have many rights including the right to fix renovate secure protect and beautify the White House grounds which has been built and rebuilt renovated and re renovated repaired and simply made better many times since 1792 but as the court order explains we are aware of no instance in American history in which a president unilaterally and using privately collected funds demolished a substantial portion of the White House that Congress authorized

24:10to be built an American taxpayers paid for until now that's the truth and when you look at the order and you look at Trump's frantic chaotic crazy social media posts you have to ask yourself which country do you want to live in and to me this is never a oh well Democrats Republicans independent and no no it's it's really much deeper and more profound of bizarre Kim Jong-un authoritarian frankly Kim Jong-un looks very rational very well-reasoned compared to Donald Trump's behavior I think it's I think his craziness is truly unprecedented even amongst the authoritarian class even as you think through some of the people who we may have conceived as the craziest authoritarian the most unhinged Trump is in a authoritarian crazy pantheon to himself right um do we want that do we want that or or do we want logic rules evidence the truth reality and the reality is is that

25:19the president is a public servant you serve us we don't serve you you work for us we don't work for you we're not your employees we're not your cogs we're not your data center robots we the people we the people and you work for us and you're supposed to make our lives better not inject deranged chaos unpredictability pain and suffering every day and I believe call me naive but part of what we're building here at the Midas Touch Network is to do this that one of the ways out of this hell is through a strengthening of our legal organizations our legal systems working hand-in-hand with what I can control here building the independent media ecosystem the way we have to get out the truth to bring in the top experts all right I'm going to bring Michael Popeok and I'm sure you're

26:23saying Ben enough of you let's bring in Michael Popeok okay deal a reminder if you were someone you know has been injured in a car accident trucking accident if you've been injured by the negligence of somebody else reach out to Popeox firm we'll put the link in the description below subscribe to Michael Popeox YouTube channel legal AF and his sub stack legal AF let's keep that growing all right after this break I'm going to bring in Michael Popeox Popeox on vacation but he wants to be here he wants to make sure he updates you with the legal news so let's bring in Michael Popeok let's take it for our quick break first running a business means you're always reachable until you're not and the moment you miss that call that text that follow up a competitor is the one that picks it up that's why today's episode is brought to you by Quo spelled QUO the business phone system built so you never miss an opportunity I like the Quo keeps all your calls texts and voicemails in one place so anyone on your team can see the full conversation history and respond quickly

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29:32because he's immoral because he's unethical and illegal and he promotes and enables the worst instincts of a lawless president some people question whether it was worth the fight was it worth having a 50 to 49 squeak through for Todd Blanche and I would argue that he's been left damaged goods as a result a result of the promises he made that he cannot keep to senators he's going to be subjected to oversight he's going to have a unfavorable congress senate and house that he's going to have to respond to after the election in just about three months did he lay the framework and the groundwork for his own impeachment and removal as attorney general you know I had the opportunity to interview within a couple of days apart two members of the democratic leadership in the senate judiciary committee Cory Booker the senior senator from New Jersey and senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and both of them said it was worth the fight in their own way

30:36let me show you a clip I think it's important of senator Cory Booker as to why the fight even if it was one that we ultimately lost will pay dividends in the future let's play the clip I would say please don't surrender to that idea because that will lead us into a pretty terrible place I I know from my own history as a black American that people fought hard as hell for every inch of ground we gained and this idea that if we just acquiesce if we just give in maybe it won't be as bad as we imagine it to be that to me is inviting disaster and accepting resigning yourself to injustice we have to fight I am telling you right now when it comes to principled stands we have to stand up or there'll be the slow erosion of the very principles that are worth fighting for so

31:37I just hope your viewers understand this is one of those moments where even if we lose the fact that we stood history will look back and take strength from our resistance and with with the senator blumenthal it was a different angle I asked him about impeachment yeah Todd Blanche may have a pardon in his back pocket I'm sure he does which makes it ironic that his office is now considering whether to indict dr. Anthony Fauci who frankly his shorthand guided us through a very treacherous moment during covid with an out of control a rational president you know the guy that was saying we should drink chlorox and and got a pardon by Biden along with everybody in his administration that make key decisions now it's landed in the lap of Todd Blanche does he really need based on an a nine to eight senate oversight committee homelands security and government affairs oversight committee headed by Rand Paul does he really need

32:42to be prosecuting Anthony Fauci after he just got done telling senators that he would not do the president's bidding and he would not go after the perceived targets of the president he is not stronger to date Todd Blanche than he was yesterday or two days ago and I don't think the first thing on his agenda should be going after an enemy and critic of Donald Trump so we'll have to see what happens there when I asked senator blue mithal do you think this is the the makings of his impeach his own impeachment that he hang himself in the way he conducted himself in testimony before the senate judiciary committee and in promises that he made in order to secure votes and he has with senator blue mithal had to say I think that you know he's failing to acknowledge that the January six writers committed crimes his support for pardons his enabling Donald Trump's profiting from crypto 1.4 billion dollars is what Donald Trump made last year from crypto alone

33:43two billion dollars plus total it is absolutely stomach-turning it's jaw dropping the kind of corruption that Todd Blanche is enabling as we speak so I think the the kind of complicity in that kind of corruption is for me a very important reason that there could be impeachment but remember that Donald Trump under recent spring court opinions can't be held responsible criminally while he's in office for anything he does while he's in office but Todd Blanche could be so it's worth the fight it's worth the struggle right the arc of history is long but it bends towards justice we just don't know at any given moment where we are along the arc if you know what I mean but we need to be bending

34:43it towards justice because history will look back and and future you know very immediate future generations will not look kindly on us if we don't fight that good fight and we have and now it's left to the federal courts there are only safety valve circuit breaker fire wall whatever you want to call it between now in the midterms and the installation of a new Congress hopefully led by the Democrats come in next a year January right and one of the key cases there's actually two in particular that I'm thinking of but one of the key cases is before judge Brinkama senior judge eastern district of Virginia she's the judge that blocked with a injunction the operation formation and operation of the Jan 6th anti weaponization 1.776 billion dollar fund now she didn't reach at that moment a month ago the issue of whether Todd blanches next day gift

35:51obvious quid pro quo to get the nomination from Todd from Donald Trump in giving his boss his client his friend and his family and 400 companies that Donald Trump controls through a trust and affiliates of effectively a free pass to tax evasion giving him immunity or a release for the last couple of decades of IRS investigations and audits including some that are ongoing worth a hundred million dollars to Donald Trump and his family running with interest that issue of the next day massacre of our rule of law by Todd blanches and Donald Trump and the illegality of it the crime that was committed a crime on the book since post watergate in Richard Nixon that is not in front and center with a judge and wasn't considered at the moment by judge Brinkama our friends democracy forward with a public interest group and law firm that is prosecuting the case in front of judge Brinkama

36:54on behalf of a series of plaintiffs as diverse as municipalities like New Haven Connecticut former federal prosecutors who are drummed out and have been attacked by the department of justice protesters and members of the internal revenue service and former members of the internal revenue service they have now filed their amended complaint to put squarely in front of judge Brinkama the first and only of its kind lawsuit right now to have a federal judge declare that may night that may 19th unilateral declaration of a pardon by Todd blanches to be illegal in valid and unconstitutional and that just got filed in her court as of right meaning they didn't have to seek leave or emotion to be filed because the government had not responded to that particular motion now the government is going to file another motion to dismiss but in the meantime judge Brinkama who sided with democracy forward a month ago has this issue front and center even in

37:58judge Williams courtroom in Miami and I'm going to talk a lot about Miami in the coming segment because of about three or four different cases there even judge uh uh Brinkama or judge Williams sorry did not did not address the issue of the next day settlement she did in her own way she's the one that declared in response to a motion by 35 former federal judges that the entire lawsuit was a illegal illicit collusive conduct among Todd blanch Donald Trump the internal revenue service and the treasury department and Donald Trump's private lawyers and therefore the settlement with the Jan six fund settlement agreement and the amendment to that settlement agreement giving to giving Donald Trump and his family a free pass to tax evasion was also illegal it was like a silver bullet illegal and illicit but there's still issues that are being resolved in

38:59her courtroom the way that she handled it enter judge Brinkama enter democracy forward now I had in the last 24 hours sky pariamen who's a CEO and runs democracy forward on to talk about the new filing and here's a clip who does to our brave clients that have been you know in this case from the beginning the Floyd case we have amended the complaint and we've continued to add allegations about the slush fund because as we know every time Donald Trump opens his mouth he talks more about how the slush fund needs to exist and so we are still challenging the slush fund but we also added new brave plaintiffs the national employees treasury union or the national treasury employees union NTEU which has employees as members who work at the IRS and those employees are essentially alleging that what this agreement that the that blanch and Trump and the Trump organization are engaged in to provide Donald Trump and his associates his family his organization IRS immunity

40:05conscripts them into the violation of law and is unlawful and is an unconstitutional amolument it's giving the president a gift that you know that that that it's an unconstitutional amolument so so those are the claims with respect to the IRS immunity provision that the amended complaint if you if you I know your listeners always go to our actual court documents you guys love to feature the actual court documents there is tremendous great history in there about why there are provisions of our tax code that prevent exactly what this agreement did including by the way in a circumstance where in the watergate era in the Nixon era he was seeking to weaponize the IRS against people and and to use also the IRS to favor his friends and congress took action there to add additional protections which is one of the many legal bases for our for our case exactly now what's going to happen the Department of Justice is going to file another motion to dismiss to argue that none of

41:06these people can be plaintiffs they're going to argue that the case has no merit which they've already done in a Todd Blanche's own filing here's what Todd Blanche said on August 2nd as he was trying to get the votes from senators cornon of Texas until us of North Carolina to get out of the Senate judiciary committee he said for the avoidance of doubt nothing in this order is intended to contradict or otherwise be contrary to the prior representations by the Department of Justice that the fund is not operative that doesn't answer the question they're still going to they're still going to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to Jan 6th defendants who beat up capital police and they're going to get paid to do it with your taxpayer dollars through Todd Blanche the Department of Justice through the back door because there's budget allocations in the DOJ budget to pay these things even without the fund that one would have been easier but they can do it they can do it in

42:06the back so here's what they said about the judge brink them a case nevertheless several frivolous lawsuits have been filed challenging the fund I don't think judge brink them up thinks it's frivolous in fact she said when the lawyer appeared for the Department of Justice in her courtroom alone she said you're a very brave man to be to be and it went downhill from there in the hearing she ended up blocking the fund and the fund creation and now of course turning to the next day settlement and unilateral agreement by Todd Blanche to give his boss a pardon just hours after he granted that he was nominated by by Donald Trump after being passed over three prior times three prior times Todd Blanche was passed over for attorney general until he finally hit the magic button give my boss the immunity that even the United States Supreme Court would not have provided we're going to follow that case very very closely if you want to if you want to read the lawsuit it's up in legal

43:10AF sub stack for paid members so we got that going on now let me pick up with a series of cases that all have a common theme filed by Donald Trump in his alleged personal capacity even though he keeps referring to himself as the president and all the filings in the southern district of Florida in a Miami courthouse all in the same courthouse but with different judges I practice in the southern district of Florida I know these judges well and let me give you my perspective and kind of synthesize what's happening as Trump loses a series of cases already filed filed for political reasons filed to save his ass filed to divert attention away from his failing administration I mean let's be frank we're 550 days into the administration it's pretty good sample size don't you think people in general hate the administration we just saw the new polling numbers that just came out he's lost his core MAGA group of of non college educated voters he's lost them favorable to unfavorable by 32

44:14points from where he was when he beat Kamala Harris right they people are running away from Donald Trump and his administration and heading for the exits I know there's new reporting that Donald Trump is about to avoid JD Vance to be the heir apparent where is JD Vance I'm about to put him on the back of the milk carton I have I mean between Melania Trump abdicating her responsibilities as first lady completely and and JD Vance who I haven't seen hide nor hair of in a long long time despite a lot of let's just say challenges and scandals around this administration I mean what do they have them in they haven't been like some sort of cryogenic chamber he's he's he's been wrapped in bubble wrap to protect him and his reputation not going to work okay so you see the failing polling numbers you see the failing economic numbers we're supposed to be in the throes of Donald Trump's grand golden era every time I have to go on the White House's website which I have to do for my job I have to be my eyes burn you know

45:16when I have to look at the golden era of Trump and everything everything literally gold gilded but when you get past all of that and you look at the job numbers coming out from Donald Trump's own administration his commerce secretary runs the labor department the labor the labor numbers for the jobs are abysmal and that's being kind he didn't make jobs last month in the month of July he lost 23,000 jobs they just revised May and June's number to lose another 125,000 jobs so he's only been averaging about 50 or 60,000 jobs per month which I guess sounds like a lot but now when you have an economy of 330 million people by contrast Joe Biden was making jobs at about three to four hundred thousand a month every month of his administration Donald Trump I don't know 10% of that so we feel it prices sky high inflation above the federal reserve target percentage of 2% for five years in a row 60 months in a row and the failing polling numbers so everything that we

46:26talk of many many of the things that we talk about here on legal AF we have to also acknowledge that they are a bag of tricks they are a bag of monkey wrenches that Donald Trump throws out after he's had a terrible week or a terrible day in lawsuit failure after failure after failure you would never know for instance looking at this administration and it spokespeople that they have lost 19 cases in a row they're oh and 19 about trying to get voter data from states and these judges that voted against it were ruled against it run the gamut from arch conservative republicans to democrats and everything in between you would know in watching in watching them that they've lost about six or eight cases in the last week worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Americans in funding you would never look at it if you if you heard their spokespeople or Donald Trump's ramblings that you know

47:27he's going to have to stop the ballroom likely and its construction he's going to have to stop screwing around with the reflecting pool right here you would never know it because what he tries to do is distract right bad news cycle let's try to indict Anthony Fowdoctor Anthony Fauci bad news cycle let me try to fire Lisa cook again from the federal reserve I'll talk about that at the ending segment bad news cycle oh let me let me try to rewrite the supreme court's decision against me in birthright citizenship by issuing a new executive order that's equally as unconstitutional so whenever we talk about these things you you we always have to see it with a jaundiced eye that is actions a social media post that that mainstream media chases a lawsuit that gets filed with no merit by his private lawyers a prosecution that is Department of Justice led now by his his right hand man Todd Blanche

48:28his console year he goes after those are all distractors from a completely failing administration which will go down in history as one of the worst ever and Donald Trump can't live with it I mean we just heard him say out loud basically acknowledging he's going to lose the midterms in saying they don't hate me they the public hates the Republicans the public hates the public hates the Republicans I think you are the leader of the Republican party you know you you he sticks his big fat nose into controlling the house so he's effectively his own speaker of the house forget Mike Johnson he's trying to become his own Senate majority leader forget John Thune so he's running around in the Capitol in the legislative branch making a mess he's trying to run the federal reserve into the ground it's not working his economic numbers are terrible the only thing that's up is his bank account

49:30and he thinks it's the public is doesn't like the Republicans I mean I agree that the unnamed Democrat versus the unnamed Republican the Democrat is now up about 10 points in the polls without even putting a name to it I mean you have to still run the races so I don't want to say that these are not important because the fight for the soul of America is now with the federal courts because we can't rely on Congress until it changes hands yeah so let me talk now about three cases one involving the BBC one involving the Wall Street Journal and one involving the Capitol one what are they having common they were all sued by Donald Trump in what I guess is his favorite courthouse although he keeps losing which is in Miami Southern District of Florida he done this is this is interesting he doesn't file these cases in the in the northern hinterland of the Southern District of Florida to try to land them in the alien cannon courthouse

50:36which is she's the sole judge in that courthouse in Fort Pierce she if they could they could file all these in Fort Pierce I have a working theory why they're not doing that it's because these are loser cases brought in bad faith as judge Williams another judge in the courthouse in the IRS case has ruled and they're using Alejandro Brito this local lawyer in Coral Gables to sort of run interference like like chaff you know for the media to go follow to get heat off of the white house to get heat off of Donald Trump with these failing in my personal capacity lawsuits generally for defamation or something else ridiculous and they don't want to put that in front of judge cannon because a they're saving her for things like the grand conspiracy criminal investigation that allegedly is still going on under Todd Blanche led by Joe DeGeneva and 81 year old former Reagan appointee and conspiracy theorist who's trying to figure out whether he can indict Barack Obama

51:39for something that happened 15 years ago even though all presidents have immunity for what they did when they were when they were in office uh so they're saving her for the big the big magilla right and I've got a working theory that even though Sam Alito said he's not retiring this year you know um and it's going to it's going to ride it out maybe to see what happens in November with the midterms and who controls the Senate they are saving her for a potential seat on the United States Supreme Court heaven help us that's my working theory let's get back to what's going on in the courthouses in Miami in the BBC case Donald Trump in December of 2025 sued the BBC for what he first said was $5 billion but then it was $10 billion related to them clipping his hour long how boring hour long vomitist speech on the ellipse that led to people attacking the Capitol and they cut they use the

52:39first part of the first minute last part of the last minute they put it together he's suing for defamation what's called defamation by implication saying there's my words but the way they edited it and made me look bad made me look like an insurrectionist which of course we did now which we of course he was but you have to put that in context because in order for there to be damage a in order for there to be defamation it has to be untrue and you have to have a reputation that's capable of being defamed think about that as when it comes to Jan 6th putting it aside Donald Trump a sex abuser Donald Trump as many other fraudster you know Donald Trump as convicted felon if you're just looking at Jan 6th how can you defame his reputation his reputation has been set in the public conscience in consciousness by the Jan 6th committee and at 600 page report that I still have in my desk in my office by the eight days of hearings and testimony of dozens and

53:43dozens of witnesses who were Republican against him by Jack Smith's indictment in DC in front of judge Chutkin and the resulting volume one of his special counsel report when you look at all of that and Donald Trump's own words in and around Jan 6th walk into park innocent bystanders political prisoners how could you defame that reputation there is just some reputations that can't be defamed like Hitler could not have brought a defamation case that makes sense right Jeffrey Dahmer could not have brought a Charlie Manson could not have you know brought a defamation case uh Trump can't by view given everything that he's done can't bring a defamation case they're actually bringing they're actually raising that same argument in the Wall Street journal case which is before a different judge judge gales this first case is in front of judge Altman so in that the new reporting that we have is that in the BBC case about a video clip on a documentary nobody I'll be I'll be

54:48I'm trying to be kind here that nobody watched in America on a channel I never heard of the BBC runs they Trump's trying to argue that he suffered 10 billion with a B billion dollars worth of damages but because he didn't want his trust the Donald J Trump trust to have to be compelled to release all of his tax returns all of his financial reports for the last two years so he ran in a court on an emergency application but what he did is he killed this case because he had his lawyer tell the judge oh oh you don't have to look at the business numbers of the trust or its assets or its brand because we're not suing on that we're gonna we're gonna rewrite our complaint to only focus on reputational arm to Donald J Trump let me translate that from the law that means that Trump's gonna have to show that he for a guy that made two billion dollars last year while he was president of the United States his best best year ever of of of revenue of income he's gonna have to show

55:54that he would have made about 10 billion dollars more he would have made 12 billion dollars except for that pesky little two-minute clip on a documentary nobody watched on a channel that BBC barely distributes in America okay good luck as the lawyers for the BBC said if he's changing it to reputational and that's all we'll take it because because his reputation for Gen 6 is terrible that was the best thing the BBC ever heard I know mainstream media reported it like Donald Trump won an emergency motion related to his his finances and that's a big win that's because you know I don't mean to be what's the word I'm kind to fellow commentators but many of the fellow commentators are not practicing lawyers and they don't understand what happens next you know they just rip the headline and they can't explain it to you because they never try to case in front of a live jury and I think that's one of the competitive advantages we have on legal AF I think that's

56:58one of the reasons that you come to us and then you've got so that's what's going on to the BBC case he killed his own case because he says I'll stake my reputation on the case good for you you're going to lose on the Wall Street Journal case that's before Judge Gales down the hall from Judge Altman and in that case he's so sided with the Wall Street Journal who got sued for billions of dollars again because why because they published an article about the Epstein birthday book the scrapbook that Galeen Maxwell put together for volumes for Epstein's 50th birthday filled with disgusting comments and pictures bringing down most of the men that were listed in there but for Donald Trump he said yeah it's not me. It's clearly gonna believe me or you're lying guys that's not my signature. I don't somebody must have set me up yeah 30 years ago before Epstein was arrested and before you ran for president somebody time traveled and shoved your birthday card into the book

58:01with a naked woman and some crazy language nobody buys that in any event Wall Street Journal got a copy of it we know where they got a copy of it from they got a copy of it from the Epstein a state that same book got published by Congress hell we have it up on legal AF sub stack and might as touch as it up as well. So how can you continue to maintain a defamation case about oh well I've denied it okay well I called Rupert Murdoch Trump said now I told them I'd deny it okay and they wrote that in the article but that's not actual malice to publish reporting about what they've seen and what it what it implies I mean that's not how journalism or the first amendment works or freedom of the press works. So he filed a couple of laws a couple of complaints one got dismissed he tried it again and the judge took a look at it I'm pretty sure he's signaling judge

59:02Gail's he's going to dismiss it finally impermanently and put it out of its misery because he's blocked all discovery in the case he's not allowing Donald Trump to go trapsing around the electronic forms and files and information and emails and depositions whatever of the Wall Street Journal to try to find a lawsuit you know needle in the haystack my lawsuits you're somewhere yeah you're not going to go finding it in discovery because to unlock the key to unlock the door of discovery you've got to have a valid operative complaint and it looks like you don't so that's going to be judge Gail's just get ready when I come back on legal a affer on substack to tell you the Wall Street Journal case is finally dead and buried which brings us to the third case in Miami all happening this week also before judge Altman the BBC judge in a case brought by Trump against capital one Trump and his family why because capital one fired the Trump family and 400 or 300 of their bank accounts for 400 of their businesses so Trump did like it and he said oh I'm the

1:00:05reason I got debanked at at capital one and chasing all these because they're woke they're they're woke yeah their diversity equity inclusion they're trying to take advantage of John sixth on me what capital one did now that we know because they just made a filing is that they told the Trump family we're getting rid of you because activity in your accounts triggered our anti-money laundering compliance program and anti terrorism funding program which is run by a combination of AI software and law and former law enforcement and they have the right to fire anybody from the it's in your account opening documents I assure you in my prior life of being a deputy general counsel in a Wall Street firm financial services firm I work very closely with the compliance department and I know all about know your customer regulations a male regulations america anti money laundering patriot act and and the rest and bank secrecy act and when you onboard a client or

1:01:09off board them the decision making process that goes forward and so they didn't make it public because you know listen just go find other banking took them about six months they gave them an extension go I think they went to Charles Schwab in some other places oh no they wanted to bring the suit for billions of dollars against capital one because they got their taste for getting what's the word getting uh uh extortive payments extortion payments from media companies and banks and and law firms I thought they could try it on capital one capital one fired back this week and said you know the reason we got rid of you and put it in a public filing motion to dismiss bright red letters blinking because we thought you you were a potential money launderer along with your companies and a or and or a terrorist financeer what happens is they look they scour and audit the accounts and they look at the transactions the money in the money out the wire in the wire out the timing of it the counter party and stakeholder on the other side where's the money coming

1:02:14from is it consistent with what the bank understands your business to be right are you tiding checks are you running personal expenses through your accounts probably all of it and bells and whistles go off and people in positions of authority at banks have to fill out suspicious activity reports s a r's there are probably dozens and dozens of s a r's that were filed for the bank to make the decision to fire Donald Trump up by the way they could have done it for no reason any reason even a bad reason that's what your account opening statement say or document say in the agreements they could have done it because he's a persistent fraudster as a judge by a New York judge he they could have done it because his companies two of his companies were convicted of tax evasion and books and records fraud 17 counts and he was convicted of 34 felony counts of books and records fraud and election fraud could have been that could have been he's a judge the sex abuser could have been that he was indicted related to john six pick it they didn't use any

1:03:18of those they said no our own personal AML program flagged him and we fired him and they pushed the bank so hard that he that they had to disclose it I mean I think they did it with special delight they actually didn't have to put that in the motion to dismiss that they filed but they have and that's in front of judge Altman as well in the southern district of Florida so we've got the BBC case we've got the capital one case and we got the Wall Street Journal case all in the Miami Southern District of Florida along with judge Williams who has the IRS case all the same courthouse he's doing terribly there but remember what I said at the top of the segment why aren't they bringing these matters to judge cannon and I I've given you my working theory on that when I come back I want to talk about Lisa cook on the federal reserve them going after her again to try to fire her and get control of interest rates in this country by undermining the federal reserves independence and I want to talk about birthright citizenship and how Donald Trump once again is

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1:09:45that is without blowing smokers sunshine we wouldn't be here and we never let ourselves forget that and it motivates everything we do on might as touch and legal AF let's come out of the home stretch now two cases that are a back I mean as I joke recently in a hot take I feel like I'm watching Jordan peels masterpiece nope when I hear the Donald's drums trying to fire a Lisa cook of the federal reserve again and trying to rip birthright citizenship as now redefined by the United States Supreme Court out of the constitution I thought we did this already he just got the rulings in june that he is wrong on both counts he can't screw with the federal reserve and it's independence the way that he's decided to do it by taking out Lisa cook whose term ends in 2038 in order to gain control of not just the federal reserve board of governors but it's open market committee that sets interest rates and no he can't ignore the clear direction of the

1:10:52Supreme Court five to four decision that the 14th amendment to the constitution precludes any attempt to deny people birthright citizenship no matter who their parents are no matter what crimes may have been committed including birth tourism whatever that's supposed to be but no Donald Trump's issued a new executive order and he's sent a letter to Lisa Cook say he's in a starter firing all over again that's I mean they are conjoined twins so let's talk about them that way Lisa Cook pointed by Joe Biden giving at least through 2028 the Democrats or non-Trumpers a four to three advantage on the seven member board of governors they pick the regional president to the border of the federal reserve five of those rotate on they form a committee once a month called the federal open markets committee to set interest rates which determines how much you and I pay for mortgages and loans and credit cards how much people who borrow money for business purposes or

1:11:57otherwise ultimately pay and it the lower that number the more free money is in our economy to stimulate it if you overstimulate it you get hyperinflation we're already at inflation that's five years too long so Lord knows what happened if Donald Trump got his hands on the spigot related to cash he tried to fire federal reserve chair Jay Powell claiming there was criminal construction cost overruns related to the refurbishment of three or four hundred year old buildings that make up the federal reserve lost there badly Jay Powell is still stepped down as chairman when his term was over but it's still on the federal reserve so he went after Lisa Cook Lisa Cook is one in a series of half a dozen political targets of Donald Trump that he's tried to claim committed mortgage fraud suddenly mortgage fraud is so rampant everybody in Donald Trump's administration or on the federal reserve is doing it including reporting by the Wall Street

1:12:57journal that Scott best at the treasury secretary has done exactly what Donald Trump claims that Lisa Cook and others did like leticia james the attorney general of de york or adam shif which is have multiple homes okay and check certain boxes that gave them a slight advantage in an interest rate maybe thirty or fifty dollars a month by claiming that this was a first home not a rental home not a second home that they wouldn't rent it out or whatever the particular circumstances were he tried leticia tames the new york attorney general try to get her indicted three times grand juries rejected it he hasn't tried since he never got a grand jury to indict adam shif the senator from california mortgage fraud he and then of course he went after Lisa Cook by having bill pulty is political hack who is a mini-trumper who runs his mortgage unit the federal uh uh fanny million freddy mac to violate the privacy act picking choose pieces of

1:14:00paper out of thousands of pieces pieces of paper about Lisa Cook's buying of two homes from her credit union and land a condominium in a home in michigan from the same credit union so how do you defraud the same bank i mean isn't that literally impossible to say well she said the the land a home was her primary and the michigan home it's the same bank don't they know what their own branches or their own loan officers are doing so they take oh look at these signatures on the same day right it was a double closing right on the same day it's not fraud it's not criminal fraud it's not criminal fraud to provide a good reason to remove her from the federal reserve but they're trying to rattle her cage and get her off fortunately she's not easily rattled she's key she she's won every court case involving this that has she has filed including up to the united state supreme court and her lawyer api looal is ready for the next round why are we in a next round because

1:15:05when the supreme court in june blocked Donald Trump firing her they said they didn't like it because the heating giver do process the the good reason for firing her wasn't properly developed they affirm that courts have jurisdiction to provide oversight in this area there has to be a good reason there has to be due process and they also said in in one of the footnotes they also said that she Trump can try it again but they have to develop the facts and show that the thing she's being accused of would undermine her ability to be fair and independent on the federal reserve or that's your personal mortgage fraud that was allegedly committed before she became a member of the federal reserve of the way this is being alleged constitutes that but we're going to find out really quickly because they've now sent a new letter to her in which they've said again not any of the facts we think there's reasonable cause to believe that you are you've committed

1:16:08mortgage fraud I mean when you have a supreme court case that tells you you better be pretty specific very specific in your case that you're building against the federal reserve member before you fire them do you think this satisfies that here's here's what the letter reads from those that have you are hereby provided notice that the president is considering removing you from your position on the board of governors of the federal reserve due to their being sufficient reason to believe stop right there who wrote this to believe that you made false statements on one or more mortgage agreements they signed dance kavino for the president are you are you effing getting me that's not going to pass muster and abby loll the lawyer for Lisa cook ready has been ready for this as soon as the supreme court ruled in her favor abby loll came back and said that the new allegations whatever they are supposed to be they're basically they're not even grammatically correct as baseless now as they were a year ago no matter what president

1:17:12Trump tries to do next abby loll said this much is clear there is no valid cause for removing governor cook as we did before we will challenge this latest pretext and preserve her position in the historic role of the fed because the get rid of her would give Donald Trump a four to three advantage on the federal reserve board of governors which would let him pick the five additional members of the federal open markets committee and he would gain control of all the votes there right now he's just controls the chairperson and maybe one or two other votes and it's and it's making him upset so he's going back after Lisa cook will update you as this will inevitably land probably back on judge gia cooks bench she was the judge in the lower court on the original case and then up to the United States Supreme Court I don't think it's going to be an August event I think the new term is going to reopen we're going to have some litigation in the courts below through the month of

1:18:13August probably into September and sometime when the new court opens for the Supreme Court the first Monday in October will probably see some action October November December similar last year related to Lisa cook again in the federal reserve again this is just Donald Trump trying to distract from the failings of his economy when you're not making any jobs and prices are stubbornly high and people continue to suffer and blame you in your administration you got to come up with something else let's attack Lisa cook again now let's turn briefly to the birthright citizenship case there we go now when we did the reporting on birthright citizenship which just got completely affirmed with a final notice by the Supreme Court in the last few days we reported as either a five to four or six to three decision led by chief justice robberts to reaffirm a hundred year old precedent in a case called long king Kim arc from I think 19 1901 that said that if you are born in the United

1:19:13States accepted very rare circumstances like you're born to an ambassador on on you know like inside the embassy then you're not going to be a US citizen but everybody else is that precedent five to four Roberts ca Roberts a Katanji Brown Jackson so to my or and Kagan right that's four and then you had a couple of more people sort of join including Kavanaugh right but it was dangerously close you know we like to say it was 63 was really five to four on the constitution Kavanaugh ruled that the nationality act which came out later after the one Kim arc case effectively was Congress memorializing what the Supreme Court had done in a statute but in a footnote Kavanaugh said but if Congress wants to create new exceptions where

1:20:14people aren't US citizens Congress can do it that was an invitation apparently to Donald Trump to use the what we now call the great concurrence the great concurrer in Kavanaugh he's always concurring about something to say aha Congress can do it I probably can do it by executive order no you can't in fact John Roberts said in his decision that this historical precedent of birthright citizenship stretches back before the American revolution into like 15 and 1400 you uh Britain London England and it's a right that has been unchallenged and it was the it was the the purpose or the goal by the framers and by the 14th amendment framers to have as broad birthright citizenship as back in you know precolonial times in England and the only

1:21:15exceptions were very limited it was like certain Indian tribes you know an Native American tribes and um like ambassadors Trump heard that and saw Kavanaugh's concurrence and said aha I can create an entire new group so he had a whole thing and an executive order about well if you're participating in birth terrorism and you're committing a crime a child that's born on US soil whose parent was involved in birth terrorism that's not going to be a US citizen that's not what it says look if he if if Trump wants to make illegal birth terrorism people trying to drop baby have babies here in America on purpose in order to make him into the US citizens you can criminalize that you can criminalize that you can criminalize the mule the broker and the uh service the person put him in jail but the baby if the baby slips through no pun intended if the babies comes out in America it's a US citizen so saying no no with its birth if you're not just ambassadors anybody that works for a

1:22:24uh a foreign country that's in America anybody anybody anybody the front office of the pack office clerical otherwise yeah we're gonna throw you yeah your kids are are US citizens either if you're in certain territories that are American territories like the Mariana islands and what are now you're not going to be a US citizen either uh if you uh work for a uh a government a foreign government or a foreign corporation and you have some sort of immunity in this country from suit yeah your kids are going to be US citizens either what does it say that in the Supreme Court decision it didn't in fact it's the opposite the Supreme Court was trying to shut down the exemptions not add to them or let Donald Trump add to them but you see how hot Donald Trump got about Cavanaugh's uh observation the Congress can do let then let Congress try and then we'll see if that if Congress's act is inconsistent with the 14th Amendment and whether there are five votes five votes which right now there are to um protect the uh birthright citizenship as a part of

1:23:33the 14th Amendment not as part of a statute so what's gonna happen there you know it's gonna happen groups are going to join together and file multiple lawsuits like the first first birthright citizenship case in places like Washington State federal court, Rhode Island federal court, Massachusetts federal court, Maryland federal court, the District of Columbia, LA you know there's a reason that these cases are filed in those federal courts and then they'll go up to favorable appellate courts like the ninth circuit the first circuit the fourth circuit you know um you know we sort of avoid the fifth circuit the eleventh circuit and then it'll it'll land on the door step of the United States Supreme Court in blocking this executive order some judge in the next 30 days based on a lawsuit filed maybe by the Democratic Attorney's General next week is going to

1:24:33block this executive order as being inconsistent with the case of Barbara versus Trump which is the birthright citizenship case and then it's going to get up on an appeal and a fast track to the Supreme Court I don't think again it's going to be in August but maybe in late September or early on October we're going to be reporting on it where do we do that right here on my touch and legal AF I'm so glad you've joined us you can see that even though Ben was on vacation last week and I'm still on vacation with my family now this is important to us the continued um cadence and content and speaking to our audience and keeping our audience knitted together in the face of Todd Blanche's confirmation and focusing on the federal courts that are doing God's work right now the laboring or right now to protect our democracy whether it's Judge Sullivan and Katie Fangs lawsuit about the Epstein survivors and their dignity and the documents that we all deserve or Judge Williams in the Southern District of Florida who's protecting us about the way she's declaring bad faith and foul

1:25:40in the way that Donald Trump and Todd Blanche created the Jan 6th fund or Judge Brinkham who's about to decide whether Donald Trump's immunity pass for tax evasion given to him by his now attorney general is constitutional or not as other federal courts about Malian Balloting which is now up at the United States Supreme Court as we speak and about the weaponization of the post office whether their decisions are going to be upheld you know these these cases matter and even the private cases by Donald Trump as president not president in all of his defamation cases the cases in front of judge in front of Judge Gales about the Wall Street Journal in front of Judge Altman about the BBC or capital one these cases matter and you need and you deserve to get the straight scoop right honest commentary knowledgeable educated commentary I'm so tired of reading in mainstream media

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