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LIVE: MAJOR ORAL ARGUMENT on Voting Rights

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 1h

Popok: These are the things people need to remember at the midterms: Do you really want this clown car, this dumpster fire shoved into a clown car, running your government?

Popok highlights what is at stake in the upcoming midterms.

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 1h

10 MINUTES until SCOTUS hears Bost v. Illinois, deciding if federal candidates can challenge state laws on the “time, place & manner” of federal elections. At stake: states’ power to count mail-in ballots up to 14 days after Election Day. Tune in on Legal AF at 10 AM ET / 7 AM PT!

LIVE: MAJOR ORAL ARGUMENT on Voting Rights

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 1h

LESS than 15 MINUTES till SCOTUS hears Bost v. Illinois, deciding if federal candidates can challenge state laws on the “time, place & manner” of federal elections. At stake: states’ power to count mail-in ballots up to 14 days after Election Day. Tune in on Legal AF at 10 AM ET /7 AM PT!

LIVE: MAJOR ORAL Argument in front of SUPREME COURT

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 2h

LIVE at 7 AM: SCOTUS hears Bost v. Illinois, deciding if federal candidates can challenge state laws on the “time, place & manner” of federal elections. At stake: states’ power to count mail-in ballots up to 14 days after Election Day. Watch on Legal AF below!

The Hatch Act Be Damned: How the Trump Administration Is Using Government Websites as Campaign Billboards

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Dina Sayegh Doll @askdinadoll.bsky.social · 13h

My article for @legalafmtn.bsky.social on the government agencies using taxpayer money for campaign rhetoric in emails and on their websites:
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LIVE: Popok Gives URGENT UPDATE on Breaking Legal news | 10/7/2025

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 15h

Popok is minutes away from going LIVE for The Intersection podcast. Join below!

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The Hatch Act Be Damned: How the Trump Administration Is Using Government Websites as Campaign Billboards

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 16h

The Hatch Act Be Damned: How the Trump Administration Is Using Government Websites as Campaign Billboards

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BREAKING. AG BONDI MELTDOWN. EPSTEIN FAIL. SCOTUS SURPRISE. POPOK BRIEFS.

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 18h

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LIVE: Popok Gives URGENT UPDATE on Breaking Legal news | 10/7/2025

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 18h

A collapsing DOJ on fire and leaking, former officials warning America, an AG failing on TV, a MAGA Supreme Court suddenly recalling the First Amendment, judges blocking Trump’s Blue State takeover, and the Epstein scandal roaring back. Popok is at The Intersection LIVE @ 8 pm ET!

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 20h

Popok: Is this what you want your head of the Department of Justice to be? Is this how you want them to act, regardless of which political stripe you are?

Popok breaks down AG Pam Bondi's embarrassing hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 21h

If you thought AG Bondi would suddenly find ethics or integrity before testifying as head of the most corrupt DOJ in history, think again. Her Senate testimony is Exhibit A in what former DOJ leaders call a full “attack” on justice. Popok breaks down how her partisan hackery risks her law license.

Trump DOJ CRUMBLES as AG COLLAPSES Under BRUTAL CROSS-EXAM

Where’s Trump’s Phantom $17 Trillion?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schumer: I want to say to Donald Trump, to Johnson, and to Thune: come to the Capitol, sit down in public, and debate us on the health care crisis that’s afflicting Americans.

The public needs to see this.

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 22h

Morning AF 10/7/2025

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Morning AF 10/7/2025

Supreme Court Abandons Trump on Epstein Files

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 1d

Supreme Court Abandons Trump on Epstein Files

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Trump has TOTAL FREAK OUT over His OWN JUDGE

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 1d

Full breakdown:

LIVE SOON: BREAKING: Supremes Refuse to bail out Trump on Epstein Coverup; new updates on Oregon and Illinois Trump attempted hostile take overs. Popok Briefs.

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump defied a federal court order from his own appointee, Karin Immergut, by sending California National Guard troops into Oregon under false claims that the state is "war-ravaged".

Popok breaks down this fast moving story.

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 1d

Popok goes LIVE at 12:30 ET! Tune in below!

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Starting Oct 6 at 12:30 PM EDT

Exclusive: California AG Rob Bonta Speaks Out After Judge Blocks Trump National Guard Deployment

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 2d

Exclusive: California AG Rob Bonta Speaks Out After Judge Blocks Trump National Guard Deployment

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California’s top law-enforcement officer joins Michael Popok of Legal AF to unpack how the courts stopped Trump’s unlawful National Guard deployment, and what comes next.

🚨In Breaking News, an openly defiant Trump Administration has met its match as an Oregon Trump-appointed Federal Judge just issued her second Emergency Temporary Restraining Order in 24 hours to preve...

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 2d

California AG Rob Bonta joins Popok on MeidasTouch Network for an exclusive briefing for our audience on what went down at tonight’s late night hearing before Judge Immergut.

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LIVE SOON: BREAKING:Oregon joins with California to oppose Trump defiance of Judge Immergut’s ruling preventing national guard from being used in Portland. Popok briefs

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 2d

Popok hops on for an urgent break down and goes LIVE at 9:45 ET on the Legal AF Substack to update you on the latest legal and political news. Don’t miss it!

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Starting Oct 5 at 9:45 PM EDT

Trump REBUKED by SCOTUS as He BEGS for a BAILOUT | Unprecedented

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Dina Sayegh Doll @askdinadoll.bsky.social · 2d

On Unprecedented, we dive into Trump’s renewed assault on birthright citizenship and a critical 2nd Amendment case before the Court and talk with Lisa Graves about her explosive new book, Without Precedent. @legalafmtn.bsky.social @thelisagraves.bsky.social
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Why Are We Letting Julie Kelly Dictate Our National Security?

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 2d

Why Are We Letting Julie Kelly Dictate Our National Security?

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Trump SHUTDOWN Immediately BLOWS UP in His FACE

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Courts and Judges and Watchdog Groups are rushing to court and obtaining new orders to prevent him from exploiting the Shutdown he caused, and bring it to an end. Popok ties all the new activity together in his latest hot take.

Trump’s FATAL ERROR is EXPOSED in New SCANDAL

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 4d

A brand new pay to play corruption scandal has been discovered, in which Trump and his family get the money for his crypto currency company, and an Arab Sheik gets a 15% stake in TikTok in return! Popok ties it all together on his latest hot take.