Michael Popok

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611 appearances 19 recordings 7 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 22 Jul

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · California AG Rob Bonta reacts to Late Night Court Victory · 6 Oct 2025 podcast

This was an Oregon case until about a half a day ago, and then it became a California and Oregon case.

You were on the hearing.

It was by phone mainly.

Tell our audience what happened today, what Judge Emmergut did, and why you think it was correct.

And thank you, AG Bonta.

And what we've known from the past is there were about seven red states that sent their National Guard into D.C.

And I'm sure this is the same group that Donald Trump is trying to cycle through to try to find.

I don't even think he's trying to do find a loophole.

I think he's just openly defiant of Judge Emmergut.

And it sounds like she might she thinks that might have happened as well.

Just to frame the issue, we have a judge who, yes, was appointed back in the the

first term of Donald Trump, but he's already blaming whoever the people were, you know, at the Federalist Society or Leonard Leo or whoever led him astray, because he doesn't like her particular rulings.

And she framed the issue in her order on Saturday

so perfectly uh in my to my audience i said it's 31 pages but you really just need to read the first paragraph and uh one of her last paragraphs to understand it in her first paragraph for our audience she said on on saturday and this like you said it was illegal then and it's illegal now

She said, this case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our constitutional democracy.

The first concerns the relationship between the federal government and the states.

The second concerns the relationship between the United States Armed Forces and domestic law enforcement.

And the third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative branch.

Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

And then she ended it this way, and I'm sure this is sort of the animating force in her decision-making.

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