All posts tagged "Michael Popok"

Legal analyst Michael Popok broke down a dramatic day in Missouri's redistricting war, describing a "very hot and upset" state Supreme Court that found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt for trying to defy its order.

On his MeidasTouch show Legal AF, Popok recapped this week's twin hearings, in which the court ruled Hoskins "was in contempt" of its Sept. 3 injunction barring him from using a Republican-drawn congressional map. The GOP secretary of state had emailed local election officials directing them to use the 2025 map anyway, citing a conflicting federal court order.

Hoskins escaped punishment only by "purging" the contempt, reversing course and instructing officials to use the older 2022 map after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the GOP version hours earlier....

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin should "go back to plumbing school," a legal expert said, warning that his own on-camera words are a crime.

In a Monday episode of the "Legal AF" podcast, lawyer and legal analyst Michael Popok unloaded on Mullin after the secretary suggested federal agents could turn up where people cast their ballots. Popok said Mullin, or "somebody," needs a lesson in "18 United States Code 592" and "593," the statutes that govern "armed forces or troops at polling places."

Popok said Mullin gave away far more than he realized when he floated sending agents to serve a warrant....

A legal expert sounded the alarm on a pair of lawyers who he fears have a plot in mind for upcoming elections.

During an episode of Legal AF, Michael Popok warned that the Trump administration is maneuvering to "spring on the American people" in upcoming elections. While Popok said he doesn't know what the administration has in mind, he warned about the "crazies that are inside the White House," including Kurt Olsen.

"Kurt Olsen, a failed lawyer sanctioned twice by the Arizona courts for bringing up false information to the courts related to Kari Lake's attempted bid for governorship," Popok said. "He was so nuts that even team crazy, which was the name for [Rudy] Giuliani's group during the first Trump administration, wouldn't have Kurt Olsen around."...

A legal analyst expects Todd Blanche to be confronted with tough questions about President Donald Trump's fixer during his upcoming confirmation hearing.

During an episode of Legal AF, national trial lawyer and strategist Michael Popok said that aside from questions about Blanche's handling of the Epstein files, Trump's pick for attorney general will have to answer for his ties to Trump's personal lawyer and "consigliere," Boris Epshteyn.

"There's a shadowy figure that controls all of Donald Trump's private lawyers and law firms, his battalion of lawyers going after his political enemies in courts, suing baselessly for defamation and even going after his sex abuse victims like E. Jean Carroll," Popok said. "All of those lawyers, whether they're located in Miami or in New York or in Chicago or D.C., are controlled by one person, an advisor to Donald Trump named Boris Epshteyn."...

The Trump Justice Department stumbled in an Jeffrey Epstein files case with an "embarrassing" excuse flagged by a legal expert on Saturday.

In a recent episode of the Legal AF podcast, analyst Michael Popok discussed the DOJ's response to an injunction requiring it to translate foreign-language documents in the Epstein files. The injunction stems from journalist Katie Phang's lawsuit demanding translation and a published redaction log, which has seen early success, Popok noted.

"It's not like the World Cup. It's not like there's 48 different countries of languages," Popok said. "What is it? Four or five languages. We know who was involved in the Epstein scandal. Maybe French, maybe Italian, certainly English, not a foreign language, but you know the way the Brits speak."...

The Trump Department of Justice's stonewalling with a judge keeps backfiring with each new filing, according to a legal expert.

Michael Popok, a legal analyst, said during an episode of All Rise News that the DOJ's refusal to kill Trump's $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund isn't swaying Judge Leonie Brinkema from the Eastern District of Virginia.

In early June, Brinkema blocked the anti-weaponization fund, which critics have called a slush fund amid worries it would pay Trump allies, after doubting the administration's claims that it was truly dead. She then gave the DOJ until June 19 to file a declaration swearing it wouldn't move forward with the fund under penalty of perjury or the lawsuit challenging the fund would continue....