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Max Career Federal prosecutors, federal judges and magistrates don't believe a word the Department of Justice under Pam Bondi, Emil Beauvais and Todd Blanche have to say and are taking extraordinary steps to protect the rule of law. This coming out of some new reporting in the New York Times and other places about how Emil Beauvais, who was once Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer, now the number three in the Department of Justice. He's the henchman. He's the cop. He might be the homicidal cop to Todd Blanche's bad cop. Found a way to go after and try to intimidate a student organization on Columbia and Barnard's campus under the guise of trying to get to the bottom of antisemitism on campus. Ordering prosecutors to do extraordinary and unethical things to try to intimidate the student group who has a First Amendment right to express whatever it is as long as it's not in support of Terr. That wasn't good enough for Beauvais. And when he lost an issue or had his lawyers lost an issue before a federal judge, a magistrate judge, took an extraordinary step. She said, basically, in effect, I don't trust the Department of Justice. And when you go back to the federal judge that's responsible for this case, you take a transcript of everything that was said in my courtroom back to him. So there's an accurate record. Wow. I'm Michael Popak. You're. Wow, you're on Legal AF and Midas. Touch. Let's get into it. Lot of new reporting about how the Trump administration and its senior DOJ officials are using their bully pulpit to intimidate in a way we've never seen prosecutors ever do before. Maybe because there are ethical rules that say you cannot do that. And the DOJ guideline, which the DOJ officials for Trump seem to have an only a passing interest in, only a passing acquaintance of, seem to be allergic to the DOJ manual, would not permit. And so when Beauvais decided to go after the Columbia Apartheid divest group at Columbia University and at Barnard campus, he ordered his civil rights division again. This is Harmeet Dhillon's attempt to dismantle the Civil Rights Division, turn it upside down and have a duke do things against its very DNA of being a civil rights division, turning civil rights on its head, going after student groups. I'm not gonna debate the content of what these students are saying. People know my background. People know I'm not necessarily supportive of their point of view. But I'll be damned if I'll let the government try to intimidate somebody from exercising the First Amendment rights and getting up on their chosen soapbox in the public square. So when Beauvais struck out and the prosecutors started to resist, and having watched what he did already to dismantle the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice, which is now down to just a handful of people, because there is no integrity to this, to this Trump administration. The Public Integrity Group, after much pressure and firing everybody that got in their way, dismissed the Mayor Adams indictment. Now Emile Beauvais moves on to the civilization, to the civil rights division, headed by somebody that's more in line with his thinking, Harmeet Dhillon. And they go after the student group and then when they go to a judge who refers in Federal Judge Cattell, who refers the issue over to, to Magistrate Judge Netburn to decide whether there should be a search warrant issued, a search warrant to get to the student group's Instagram and try to create some sort of list, probably to set up future deportations. The judge said, well, why don't you go to Magistrate Judge Netburn, who works with me? And then she held a hearing and she decided there was no probable cause to issue a search warrant. That's a federal judge doing her job as a firewall against what we're seeing is the fascist tendencies of the Trump administration. Well, that wasn't good enough for Emil Beauvais. So he went back. Because when you, when you send something down from federal article 3 federal judge down to magistrate judge, you can quote, unquote, appeal back to the federal judge and say, well, we don't like the ruling from your magistrate. Won't you intervene and reverse her, her report and recommendation? And the judge says, I'll send it back. I'll remand it back to Judge Netburn, Magistrate Netburn, with instructions to take a closer look. Lush grass, florid flowers and plants. But sometimes I think I live in a prehistoric paradise, and these days, my allergies never seem to stop. 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We've said this is what's happened under Donald Trump. When you attack the rule of law, especially on law day, when you go after federal judges, when you disobey, when you do open defiance of federal orders, when you attack the Supreme Court, when you jail judges and you lie in court or you send lawyers in who have implausible deniability, who are not given any information or facts by their client, the Department of Justice or the Trump administration on purpose so they're in the dark, Mark, you don't Think federal judge see this. Just two and a half weeks ago, Judge Boasberg was this close to finding the Trump administration in criminal contempt. He already found probable cause that they were in criminal contempt. Judge Zinnis in Maryland is about, she's at about 11:30, the clock's about to strike midnight to find civil contempt or worse against the Trump administration and the Abrego Garcia case. And you don't think this is having an effect? When the Department of Justice came into the courtroom before the proud institution of the Department of Justice and they looked the judge in the eye with candor, with honesty, and said, this is how the facts are, this is how the law was or is, you could rely on it. You can't anymore. Magistrate judges, so don't trust and federal judges, so don't trust the Trump administration. They're not going to give, they're not going to do their, their judicial work without having a court reporter present. Wow. Absolutely. Wow. So this is the debilitating impact of Donald Trump on the justice system. His own Department of Justice has fallen into such disfavor in the courtroom that judges won't trust them. What's going to happen to this group? Well, as of right now, thank God, federal judges are protecting the students group's First Amendment right. You know, somebody's got an issue with it. You want to sue them civilly, go ahead. Yeah. But to threaten crim and try to intimidate them. Because now everybody knows it's on the front page of the New York Times that this Columbia divest group is the target of an investigation, an intimidation campaign by the, by the Trump administration led by Emil Bovet and the Department of Justice. You don't think that's going to have a chilling effect on First Amendment rights? Listen to me. Columbia University apartheid divest group. Find a good lawyer, good lawyers out there. Find this group. Bring a lawsuit. The chilling impact on First Amendment expression here is palpable. What Emil Beauvais has done in violating the ethics and the ethos of the Department of Justice, following in the steps of Trump. Bondi Harmeet Dhillon, Civil Rights Division. Todd Blanche, second in command. Yeah. Is all unethical, is all disgusting and depraved. And I got to talk about it on Law Day, the day since 1958 that we celebrate the rule of law and the, and the role of, and the role of law in the public square. That's what we do on Legal af. 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