The Legal AF Evening Briefing

Popok here,

This is your hub for today’s top moments from Legal AF, breaking down the stories at the intersection of law and politics. No smoke or sunshine.

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Programming note: I am LIVE tonight at The Intersection at 8 pm ET! I’ll be covering Trump and Natalie Harp, Melania’s absence, the Ballroom and Kennedy Center scandals, the Epstein document controversy, Disney’s legal battle with Trump, the Supreme Court’s looming mail-in ballot ruling and much more!

Bring your questions and I will see you all at 8 pm ET! Tune in with the link below.

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Michael Popok, Legal AF co-founder, reports:

Trump was secretly listening in to a board meeting with the Kennedy Center Board filled with Trump allies to pressure them to vote to ADD Trump's name to the Center, again, and to add insult to injury, renaming the plaza after him too. These are clear violations of Judge Cooper's order being led by Howard Lutnick, the beleaguered Commerce Secretary. And why, Popok asks, does even the Kennedy Center scandal have Epstein links?

Donald Trump is lashing out at the press as questions grow over his relationship with longtime aide Natalie Harp and Melania Trump’s absence from major public events. The scrutiny intensified after Sen. Jon Ossoff publicly questioned Harp’s unusually close role in Trump’s inner circle. Trump is now attacking CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes after she questioned him. Popok breaks it down.

In breaking news, ABC, threatened with the loss of its 8 tv station licenses by Trump in retaliation for their coverage of him, have finally found their backbone and sued the Trump Administration first! Popok breaks it down.

Michael Popok, Legal AF co-founder, interviews Katie Phang's attorney and the head of the Public Integrity Project, Brendan Ballou:

Brendan joins Popok for some exclusive updates in her case against AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ for the full release of millions of Epstein documents still withheld by the DOJ, and what Judge Sullivan will do about it next.

Court Accountability Action’s Alex Aronson interviews Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate, host of the Amicus podcast, and contributor at MSNBC:

Alex and Dahlia discuss the Supreme Court, judicial supremacy, and the growing movement to reclaim constitutional interpretation as a democratic responsibility. They explore popular constitutionalism, structural court reform, and what it would take for the American people and their elected representatives to exercise the constitutional power they have ceded to the Court.