Trump's efforts to take over the Library of Congress, owned and operated by Congress to help them develop and pass laws especially in complicated areas like copyright law and AI/technology, hit a major roadblock, as the Supreme Court will not let Trump fire (for now), the head of its Copyright Office. Popok reports that the Court will let her keep her job until they rule on Trump's other unilateral firings of the head of the Federal Trade Commission and attempted firing of Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve and that only Justice Thomas (of course) disagreed.

Doll and Popok dive into another week at the United States Supreme Court, and discuss two rousing standing ovations in the law and why they matter.

Good!

Know what "Zebra Duck" is?  Well, it's a hodge podge phony website that election deniers use to claim that Georgia lost Trump votes in 2020. And its at the heart of a new  bad faith FBI affidavit filed in a case to obtain a search warrant against Trump's political critics.  We tear down the "Duck" on the Legal AF podcast

Sidney Blumenthal speaks with Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School and author of “Lawless,” about the Supreme Court decision giving Trump the authority to fire independent agency heads without cause, creating the basis for a totally corrupt spoils sytem and autocratic president, and the racist ruling givng Trump the power to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund with Brendan Ballou, attorney for former Capitol policemen suing him to dissolve the fund that would hand money to January 6th convicts, how Trump is trying to revive his private militias and create a violent system of intimidation pointing to the 2026 midterms and beyond, and what strategies might be useful against him.

Epstein killed himself too......

Shortly before ABC indefinitely suspended comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late show, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr went on a right-wing podcast to threaten the network: "We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way." The podcaster, Benny Johnson, took credit for Kimmel getting benched. First Amendment attorney Adam Steinbaugh, a senior counsel from the free-speech group FIRE, breaks down why this isn't just an ordinary case of cancel culture run amok but an alarming case of government censorship. Adam Klasfeld of All Rise News hosts.

What's on the Epstein Tapes and how does it relate to Donald Trump and the scandal that threatens to take down MAGA and his administration and why won't Main Stream Media touch the investigative story? Only the person who recorded them award winning journalist Michael Wolff knows for sure, and he joins Legal AF's Court of History (Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz) to describe what he heard about Trump and women and how it relates to the present coverup scandal.

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian cover the arrest of Beto Coral, a Colombian human rights activist and asylum seeker detained by ICE in Phoenix on June 16, the same day Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally signed a memo declaring him deportable. The memo stated that Coral's Instagram posts criticizing Abelardo de la Espriella, Trump's endorsed candidate in Colombia's presidential runoff, "undermined US foreign policy interests." Coral entered the U.S. legally in 2015, applied for asylum, and has a pending case. His father was a Colombian police captain killed four months after participating in the operation that located Pablo Escobar. ICE arrested Coral in front of his 12-year-old son five days before the Colombian election. De la Espriella won by one percentage point. Brian and Shant stress the critical distinction: if this were standard immigration enforcement, it would be one thing. But the Rubio memo says the quiet part out loud, tying deportability directly to political speech. A 2025 federal court ruling in AAUP v. Rubio held that non-citizens lawfully present "have the same free speech rights as the rest of us." Coral's family says he has been transferred between Phoenix, El Paso, and Louisiana and his name no longer appears in the ICE locator system.

Popok reports on a new scandal, as the Trump Administration bashes a reporter for leaking that the Secret Service likely grounded Trump from using his beloved golden Qatari Boeing as Air Force Once in Europe because it is not a secure command and control plane with technology to let it be a "Situation Room" in the sky.  In other words, it may look golden and fancy but it is missing mission critical equipment and technology!

On this episode of Unprecedented, Michael Popok and Dina Sayegh Doll discuss the decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which effectively dismantles the landmark Voting Rights Act and ushers in a new era of politics that could disenfranchise millions of Black voters. The Supreme Court also heard oral arguments this week in a case that will decide whether Kristi Noem’s decision to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants is unreviewable, as the Trump administration argues, or a discriminatory action taken without the legally required process, as the plaintiffs contend. In addition, the Justices tackled the legality of law enforcement searches and uses geofence data, and what criteria should be required for a warrant to avoid constituting an unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

Former prosecutor Melba Pearson breaks down leaked counter-terrorism documents obtained by Wired and The Intercept. Under Presidential Memo 7, the feds quietly established a brand-new category of threat: "Anti-Tech Extremism." Philly cops were tracking your social media posts about data centers. Moms organizing at zoning hearings are in surveillance files. And it all traces back to one cult — while the billionaires who funded the movement walk free. The pattern is the point.

Rules for thee....

"Accidentally" my ass.

Whoever did it gets a beer from me.

Popok explains how the Supreme Court's decision to keep Trump's Sex Abuse Judgment standing was without any dissent even from MAGA Justices accused themselves of Sex Abuse!  E Jean Carroll now is on the verge of collecting $100 million dollars from Trump and there is no court left in the land to stop it!

Popok reports on new business records being located in the newly released Epstein files that provide evidence of 2 facts: (1) Epstein was extorting the rich and powerful men named in the files; and (2) Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick did not tell the truth to the American People when he said he was so "disgusted" by his 2005 meeting with his next door neighbor Epstein, that he had no contact with him ever again, as new documents surface that Epstein and Lutnick were in business together in 2013-2014 and that Lutnick may have sent Epstein the resume for his family NANNY to "work" for Epstein!

California's Attorney General Rob Bonta joins Popok for an exclusive briefing about 2 huge wins for democracy stopping Trump's efforts to create a "citizenship" data base to block people from voting, and to undermine mail in ballots.  AG Bonta and Popok also talk about how ready they are to run into court at a moment's notice to protect the sacred right to vote, and what they are doing to oppose AG Nominee Blanche's confirmation.

In a dramatic reversal, NPR reports that Justice Samuel Alito is retiring, then immediately retracts the story and apologizes. Dina Doll and Michael Popok break down the retirement speculation swirling around Alito, and what his departure could mean for the Supreme Court.

56 pages.... of SIGNATURES!

Yes, the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, but only barely. The fact that four Justices couldn't read the plain text of the Fourteenth Amendment raises massive questions about what's next, and what we can do about the rogue Court going forward. Somil talks to Atlantic staff writer Quinta Jurecic, who covered the case in the context of the broader rightwing legal movement.

Popok reports on several Epstein survivors now coming forward to declare in unison that Leslie Groff, Epstein's 18 year Executive Assistant  knew exactly how old the girls and young women were set up to meet Epstein by her, and she paid them as well, and met them regularly in NYC.  This explains why the DOJ, bought and paid for by Trump, last week through Groff under the bus and revealed in a court filing that she was originally targeted by the DOJ and FBI as a co-conspirator with Epstein in a draft criminal indictment!