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

She said at the end of her order on page 30 from Saturday,

This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs.

Quoting from James Madison, addressed to the Constitutional Convention, a standing military force with an overgrown executive, well, we've got an overgrown executive, will not long be safe companions to liberty.

The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition.

This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.

Defendants have made a range of arguments that have accepted risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power to the detriment of this nation.

That's the judge.

What was the response?

I mean, we always like to know our opponent.

What was the response?

What's the government's position as to why they believe in good faith they could send in California, Texas, or any other national card given her earlier ruling?

What did they say?

And such a weird, I mean, you and I don't have enough time on planet earth to figure out the machinations of the Trump administration or their strategy or lack thereof, but everything reports up in these cases to the same Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

And I would think they're not, it strengthens your hand certainly in the California Ninth Circuit case to see how Donald Trump has interpreted unique set of facts that he was able to at one time convince the Ninth Circuit about, now trying to take them on the road to go to any state that he says, well, I'm having trouble enforcing the law.

Let me just take it.

I don't think that's what the Ninth Circuit three-judge panel had in mind.

Do you?

I like the fact that Judge Emmergut, in her Saturday order, actually tipped her hat to your judge in California, Judge Breyer, and said, I like what the district court judge did about how you spot a rebellion.

I think those... So...

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