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Michael Popak (7:42)

And then after that, the Trump administration then told effectively the world that they were working on the diplomacy around the return of Abrego Garcia now appears they're back to go pound sand. Judge, we're not telling you what we're doing because we're exercising or invoking the state secrets privilege. She wants full briefing on that by early, by next week. She's then going to make a ruling about it. I'm sure it's going to be against the Trump administration, but we'll see if she'll be affirmed or not. In the meantime, she's also set a briefing schedule for the media who wants basically the parties to stop filing everything under seal and let them be able to do their reporting. And she set a full briefing schedule on that. Let me just show you what it a version of what redaction or ceiling looks like. The plaintiffs also filed a motion for in the last 48 hours, a motion for additional depositions, more questions and answers under oath because the first round was insufficient and the judge had told her, if you need more time, if you need more depositions, come back to me. Why are they doing discovery at all? It is to support a pending motion for contempt that the Abrego Garcia lawyers have brought against the Trump administration. And the judge is probably on the five yard line of declaring contempt. She just wants to have the record complete with this discovery, which is now ongoing. So in this motion to take additional, you'll note, here's the, here's the page in the back. All that black is what I can't tell you what it says. It says, for instance, as. And this is the part I probably want to hear so I can and analyze it for you. On page four of their emotion, it says as to the steps taken in the past to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return. I was like, yes, what are they? And blackout similarly. I was, I thought this is, this is my second favorite page. This is what the media is trying to lift the veil, if you will. This one's all it says on this entire page is as to the steps anticipated in the future to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return. I was like, yes. And all right. So that's my world of ceiling and redaction. That's your lesson for today. And we're going to, we're going to see. Here's my prediction. I think the judge is going to let the media in for the sole purpose of her going through methodically the already sealed documents, putting the pressure back on the parties to justify the ceiling. And then she's going to lift the seal and we'll be able to do more reporting. That's what happens in a case. Sometimes a year into the case, they start kind of backfilling and releasing documents that were filed originally and then we can do reporting on it. It sounds like it's old reporting, I'll say something like four months ago and you know, in October or whatever, Pop, what kind of hot take is this? But it just got released and that's why we're doing it. So she's doing that. I think she'll rule that way. She'll start ripping the black tape off on a lot of these filings and on the state secrets privilege. I mean, I'll have to see the briefing, but I would be shocked. I mean, Jeb Boasberg, the chief judge In Maryland, in D.C. had a very, very similar issue and he pretty quickly rejected the assertion of the, of the state secrets privilege in that regard as well. So that's the backdrop of sort of where we are right now. I'll do another hot take. Four different judges have ruled against Donald Trump in the last four days on his invocation of the Alien Enemies act to begin with, all of them saying it was unconstitutional and improper. Texas, Colorado, New York, Maryland, you know, the whole, the whole gamut. So he's on a real loot. He's really on a losing streak. Trump and trying to bring the country down with him. And he's pressing his losing hand with his various appeals related to these issues. But we'll follow it the only way we know how without blowing smoke or sunshine right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Come on over to the Legal AF YouTube channel as well as we continue to grow that pro democracy channel. And all you gotta do is hit the subscribe button. Boom. You'll get all the reminders for our almost hourly updates at the intersection of law, politics and of course, Legal AF the podcast, which is on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8pm Eastern Time here on the Midas Touch Network. So until my next report, I'm Michael Popak. Can't get your fill of Legal af. Me neither. That's why we formed the Legal AF substack. Every time we mention something in a hot take, whether it's a court filing or a oral argument. Come over to the substack. You'll find the court filing and the oral argument there, including a daily roundup that I do called wait for it Morning af. What else? All the other contributors from Legal AOFF are there as well. We got some new reporting, we got interviews, we got AD free versions of the podcast and hot takes where Legal AF on substack. Come over now to free subscribe.