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Michael Popok (4:54)

But I'm head of Article 3. In other words, I don't want to hear about your popular vote. I don't want to hear about your mandate. And if you got a problem with one of my federal judges, the call is not for impeachment or his head or as a. As a. Another judge, Beryl Howell, once said, you know, like, you're the queen of hearts and you're displeased with somebody in front of you. So it's off with his head. That's not what you do in this country. And the fact that Roberts felt that he had to reach out and do that at this moment in time shows you the extraordinary pressure the Supreme Court is under. I have a secret weapon. I got a joke in my back pocket that I can pull out at a dinner party and it's never failed.

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And the Supreme Court would be incapable.

Michael Popok (7:53)

Of issuing any rulings. If, if, if Roberts actually recused himself, which he won't, it wouldn't get Donald Trump what he wants anyway because the Supreme Court wouldn't have the five votes to approve what he's doing. So careful what you wish for. I don't think even in their wildest imagination, the Trump administration and its half baked legal gurus thought that they were going to catch the ire of Chief Justice Roberts before an actual case where he could write something like that. The fact that he made a statement as the administrator of the federal courts is beyond extraordinary. And what it signals to Donald Trump about what he's doing. The fact that Roberts woke up in the morning and said, I gotta step in and make a statement to show the battle, the friction, if you will, between Article 3 judges and Article 2 president. I mean, well, this is the checks and balance we've been waiting for. I just thought it was going to have to come in the form of a case or a decision, but not. Roberts woke up, brushed the teeth, brushed his teeth this morning and said, I got to protect Jeb Boseberg after. See, and it just happened. I mean, this is, this is sequential. One after another crazy attacks on the presidency. Now we, by the president on a federal judge. We've seen this before with Donald Trump. We've seen it in criminal defendant Trump, we've seen it in, in criminal convicted defendant Trump going after Judge Mershon, the state court judge, the Supreme Court judge in New York and his wife and his daughter. You know, and of course, he got convicted on 34 felony counts there, going against Judge Angoron, the Supreme Court justice in New York, who presided over his judge, his $450 million civil fraud case against his wife and his law clerk. All women going again, you know, going up against Chutkin, the federal judge in D.C. who presided over his criminal case there. It's always the same. They're depraved, they're lunatics, they're out of control, they're animals, they're liberals. They're just doing their job, just like you're allegedly doing your job. You know, this is what they get paid to do. This is why they got lifetime appointments. And who cares who at this moment in time, who cares who appointed them? You know, Chief Justice Roberts, who was appointed by a Republican, is up against you now and calling you out. So what's going to happen Next? Well, there's a number of parallel things all going on at the same time as Chief Justice Roberts just stuck his finger in it. You got Boseberg, who's still presiding. Donald Trump tried to get rid of him at the DC Appellate Court and they did not respond. He said, oh, he's making some crazy decisions on temporary restraining orders restraining the power of the presidency.

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He needs to be removed as the judge. That didn't work.

Michael Popok (10:49)

He then tried to convince Judge Boasberg that he didn't have jurisdiction over anything over the president. That didn't work. Then they went into a hearing on fact finding to determine whether the Trump administration committed contempt. And there's going to be a filing today about that that will report on at the same time, the actual underlying injunction is being litigated at the same time with the Trump administration filing their paper to dissolve that order that in which Judge Boasberg certified a class of all those who who were subject to the Alien Enemies act and prevented them from being continued to be deported as he determines whether they were already deported in violation of his order. So all that's going on throughout this week, which will end up at the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and then up at the United States Supreme Court. And then we have Roberts signaling to everybody, you want to talk appeal, talk appeal. But don't talk to me about impeachment or calling for one of my federal judges heads on a pike. Well, continue to follow it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF until my next reporting. I'm Michael Popeck in collaboration with the Midas Touch Network. We just launched the Legal AF YouTube channel. Help us build this pro democracy channel where I'll be curating the top stories, the intersection of law and politics. Go to YouTube now and free subscribe @legalafmtn. That's egalafmtn.