Strict Scrutiny host and Constitutional scholar Leah Litman joins Popok to brief our audiences on what just happened over the last 9 months at the Supreme Court, how to interpret Trump's winning streak on emergency cases at the Court; the rise of Ketanji Brown Jackson and the importance of dissents, and so much more at the intersection of law, politics, and the Supreme Court.

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A federal judge is moving closer to certifying a class of all "babies born since February 2025" to protect their birthright citizenship especially based on the Trump DOJ's new filing in which they basically told the judge they are going to start deporting US baby citizens as early as the end of this month. Popok reports.

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A federal judge has found the "brains" behind the inhumane, cruel and unusual "Alligator Alcatraz" -- Florida's Attorney General -- in contempt for undermining her order stopping the enforcement of criminal immigration statute. Popok from Miami reports on the nearby detention center planned for the swamps of the Florida Everglades and what public interest groups like the ACLU can do about it.

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In breaking news, a federal magistrate judge, who doesn't trust the Trump Administration, is stashing Abrego Garcia in protective federal detention to make sure Trump doesn't deport or remove him out of the country and away from Federal Court jurisdiction before a hearing before the District Court Judge on 7/16, Popok reports on this extraordinary turn of events of a federal judge jailing someone to protect him from the Trump Administration!

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Senator Doug Jones joins Popok and Legal AF to brief our audience on the rise of MAGA violent political rhetoric and why Trump's pick for life time appointment to the federal appellate court, his criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove is "disqualified" from being confirmed.

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Will Trump be successful in overturning a federal judge's order declaring his attack on law firms to be unconstitutional? Popok looks at the new appeal Trump filed against Perkins Coie and why it is a likely loser.

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Trump is about to devastate rural and Red state communities with more than 11 million people being thrown off insurance rolls, and almost a Trillion Dollars cut from Food Stamps and Medicare programs. Popok examines Trump's strategy of harming his own voters and what we can do about it.

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In breaking news and less than 3 hours after the MAGA Supreme Court 6-3 ruled that no federal judge has the power to almost ever issue nationwide injunctions in the context of birthright citizenship attack by Trump; the plaintiffs counsel filed a new motion for temporary injunction and to certify a class to get the birthright citizenship issue back up to the Supreme Court has fast as humanly possible. Popok explains how this exactly what Justice Sotomayor and even Kavanaugh told them to do in their separate opinions.

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In a special cross over edition of Strict Scrutiny meets Legal AF, constitutional expert Professor Leah Litman joins Popok to break down the repercussions of the latest US Supreme Court MAGA right majority decision destroying the ability of federal judges to reign in Trump's abuse of power, and its impact on future civil rights litigation.

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As a failed diversionary tactic from the fact that Trump can't locate Iran's uranium stockpile, he has now attacked the NYT and CNN and threatened them with what else -- a defamation lawsuit-- because they properly reported "preliminary" assessments in leaked top secret Trump intelligence community documents that said that Iran's nuclear program only set back a few months. Popok keeps his eye on the "loose nukes" on his latest hot take.

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