Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Federal Judge Issues Restraining Order on Trump for Shocking Conduct

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

In breaking news, a fed up Federal Judge Ellis issued from the bench a 90 minute preliminary injunction ruling against Trump’s shock forces being used in Chicago to menace and attack members of the press, clergy, veterans and first amendment protestors of Trump’s immigration policy, and found that the chief of the operation for trump Greg Bovino, lied under oath about the need to fire tear gas at protestors. Michael Popok reports on Judge Ellis leading off the hearing by reading in full Carl Sandberg’s famous poem “Chicago” and lending it with John Adams plea to save liberty. Go to http://mackweldon.com/?utm_source=streaming&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcastlaunch&utm_content=LEGALAFutm_term=LEGALAF and get 20% off your first order with promo code LEGALAF Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We got breaking news coming out of Chicago. Judge Ellis has not only shut down the Trump administration's Operation Midway Blitz, going after journalists, First Amendment protesters, and members of the press, firing pepper spray, pepper balls, and tear gas at them. But she found, in her 90-minute delivery of her preliminary injunction from the bench today, she found that Greg Bovino, the face of Operation Midway Blitz and a federal officer for Customs and Border Patrol lied, repeatedly in his deposition, saying that as a prerequisite, and before he fired tear gas in Pepperball himself,

he was hit with rocks and other things, and Judge Ellis said that you are a liar and that that did not occur. She opened today's recitation of her order, quoting from Carl Sandberg, the famous poem about Chicago, and she ended it with the letter that John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail about Liberty Lost. And in between, she shut it down.

once and for all subject to an appeal. I'll cover it all right here on the Midas Touch Network in Legal A.F. And we came with the receipts, including the deposition coverage or deposition transcript video testimony of Bevino that the judge relied on. Let's break it down. Judge Ellis, about two weeks ago, issued a temporary restraining order. I can't believe I even have to say this, stopping federal forces from firing pepperball. and tear gas at First Amendment protesters who were trying, as Judge Ellis said,

just to protect the most vulnerable in their community about immigration policy. And she set up in her temporary restraining order that the government could not use weapons of war and non-lethal riot munitions against these people, including firing pepperball into the face of members of the clergy who can forget that video will play it here.

And she said, shut it down. And then she brought everybody back in for a further hearing because it was clear from press reports that after her order was entered, that her TRO was violated by the federal forces of Donald Trump, who are continuing to fire tear gas and pepperball and other non-lethal rubber bullets and the like at protesters despite her order.

And now she pulled it all together with her preliminary injunction today. Here's the line. She read the entirety of the poem by Carl Sandberg about Chicago. And particularly, she paused at this line in the poem. I'm going to put in the notes a link so you can read the poem for yourself. And having answered, so I turn once more to those who sneer at this. my city, and I give them back the sneer. She then looked up at the packed audience in the room. She also made findings that she found the evidence of the Trump administration to be completely

not credible. She said in her oral order, which will be reduced to writing, and we'll get a copy of it, describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are and how extreme their views are, where whistles were used to alert everyone within hearing distance of the presence of federal immigration officers. She also found, as a judge, she made findings that Bovino, the commander of Operation Midway Blitz, repeatedly lied during the deposition. He said that a rock hit him before he used tear gas in Little Village last month. In fact, he was not hit by a rock before a lot. lobbing a tear gas canister without warning at the crowd and a second canister.

Here's a clip from his deposition transcript where the judge says he lied. Mr. Bovino, I want to talk with you next about another comment that you have made. You said on October 30 that from what you have seen, all of the uses of force by yourself and the men under your command have been more than exemplary. your words. You still stand by that? Yes. So when you tackled Scott Blackburn as shown in the video marked for identification as Exhibit 8, that use of force on your part was more than exemplary? Objective Formlax Foundation. As we talked earlier, that was not a reportable use of force. I placed him under arrest. I didn't tackle him. I placed him under arrest. Gotcha. I love fall. There's nothing about the fresh air, the cozy vibes. And all the moments it opens up,

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with promo code legal AF. that's M-A-C-W-E-L-D-O-N dot com, promo code legal A-F. In addition, he lied about his conduct outside the ICE facility, where the video shows that he was obviously attacking and tackling a man without provocation. Now, the end of the injunction, she quoted along the way, quoting other their famous founding fathers, she quoted John Adams in a letter to Abigail Adams' wife.

The famous quote, liberty once lost is lost forever. And what she said is she is proud of the Chicagoans who stood forward in protest, including the clergy, to protect the most vulnerable in their community. That that was the city of big shoulders that she is accustomed to, which is why I believe she started it with a poem. You can look at all the rhetorical flourishes that judges are using now to reign in Donald Trump, the frequent citation to the founding fathers, to the framers of the Constitution,

to the Federalist Papers, to the works and the writings of Madison and John Adams and Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and the rest, you know, when it comes to trying to put this in historical context. And I like this certain flourish that went into reading the entirety of the four or five stanza poem by Carl Sandberg about Chicago having big shoulders. And this stands in contrast.

There's another order, I want to make sure we're clear here, Judge Perry had issued an order that stopped the deployment of the National Guard, which is up on appeal to the Seventh Circuit and now to the United States Supreme Court. And that has not yet been ruled upon. In the meantime, the deployment has been blocked, and the National Guard is not on the streets. When we talk about Donald Trump's shock forces, we're talking about the federal forces here led by Bovina. I can't emphasize enough as a longtime 35-year lawyer in federal courts. The jaw-dropping observation by a federal judge that a person in leadership with a person in leadership

within an administration came into her courtroom and lied and was caught doing it. It is earth-shattering. If you don't have your credibility, if you don't have your honesty and candor to the tribunal, you have nothing. And we got another problem that wasn't necessarily mentioned there, but I'm sure she will follow up on. The lawyers for the Department of Justice that put on Bovino and put on his testimony, knowing or should have, or they should have been knowing, or it should have known, sorry, that Bovino lied

did something bad. It's called suborning perjury. It will get you to lose your law license. It will get you a referral to the Chicago bar regulators. That's how bad it is. So a lie is not just about the person lied and the judge caught it because of counter evidence. The lie is also bad for the lawyers who have an obligation of candor to the tribunal, which has been violated. And so just as Donald Trump brought down the rule of law and our justice system when he was criminal defendant Donald Trump, and all the lawyers that lost their bar licenses were sanctioned and or indicted, including Alina Haba, including Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani and Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman and Ken Chessboro.

And the list goes on. It's going to happen all over again with the people in the Department of Justice that are allowing this to happen, that are violating the basic ethos of being a lawyer with a sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and to never lie in court. or allow lies to be presented in court as evidence. We'll continue to follow it. As soon as I get in my hot little hands, the written order, I'll come back on. I'll put it on Legal AF Substack for you. In the meantime, I'm Michael Popock.

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