Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Federal Judge Makes Major Ruling on Trump Troops in LA

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

A federal judge has rejected California’s request to immediately, without further briefing, block Trump’s takeover of the Cali National Guard and his use of armed forces on domestic soil, but only for another 2 days while setting a new briefing schedule to time out with a historic court hearing on Thursday. Michael Popok explains it all on his latest hot take. Get 20% off all IQBAR products. Text LEGALAF to 64000. (Message and data rates may apply) 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

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Bet MGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Well, we got some breaking news in that California case against Donald Trump and his administration to try to block their hostile takeover of California. The case filed in San Francisco Francisco assigned to Charles Breyer, the judge based on competing request, one from the California group that wanted an immediate stay

to block and kick out the feds from controlling the National Guard, and the other one, Donald Trump, asking for more time to brief the issue. Well, we got a new new ruling by Judge Breyer and I'm gonna report on it right here and explain what it means let's get to it I'm Michael Popak and you're on Legal AF. Charles Breyer 83 years old senior status judge he's the brother of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, appointed by Bill Clinton. He currently is declining California's request

for an immediate restraining order or administrative stay. But he is holding a hearing on Thursday after a full briefing in which he will revisit the issue. So at least for now, based on this ruling, the federalization of the National Guard and the use of military troops on the streets of California ordered there by Donald Trump through his Department of Defense Secretary Hegseth will continue but maybe not past Thursday. Let me read to you from the order that we just

obtained. Plaintiff, and I'll interpret it for you, Plaintiff Scaven Newsom in the state of California filed an ex parte motion for temporary restraining order at 11 a.m. on June 10th. Ex parte means they didn't do it with the permission of the other side. They ran into court to try to get the injunction and the stay. Courts generally hate ex parte. They like to have full briefing. They like to have the other side with notice. They like to have hearings even if it happens quickly. Defendants Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the Department of Defense on the

other hand, Defense requested 24 hours to file their uh from the filing of the motion for temporary restraining order to file a response brief. Um based on that, the judge has granted Trump's request by but he wants the brief by 11 a.m. tomorrow, Pacific time, on June 11th. Plaintiffs will then have the right by 9 a.m. Thursday morning to file a brief, and at 1 Thursday, 1.30 Thursday morning, they're all going to be in court, in open court for a hearing and any party wishing

to appear by Zoom may do so. We might be able to get access to that particular hearing so we can report on it on Midas Touch and Legal AF. How did we get here? Yesterday, the Newsom administration filed their 22-page complaint alleging that Donald Trump not only violated a particular statute that is really the only one that he could use at present to federalize and nationalize the National Guard and try to take it over and violate the sovereignty of California and violate the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, which sets up the relationship between states and the federal government. They filed that suit arguing ultra-varez, that Donald Trump's actions were rogue and

in violation of the 10th amendment and of a particular statute, a violation of the 10th amendment. And they also argued that it was a violation of the Administrative Procedures Act, the actions of the Department of Defense. They asked for a preliminary injunction. At the same time, they filed a motion for temporary restraining order on an ex parte basis, meaning they wanted the court to rule without the other side being heard from. They thought the papers were sufficient, and the judge may have done it except Donald Trump ran in and lobbed in a request. We can debate the reasonableness of it given what's happening on the streets of California and its chance of tipping over and becoming even worse, giving Donald Trump another excuse to crack

down on resistance in California. But the judge saw it. He said, look, they want another day or two. Fine. Wednesday, file your brief by a time certain. I'll give the other side, California, one more brief to file in the morning of Thursday. And Thursday at 1 30 after lunch, let's all get together. We'll talk about it. This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar, our exclusive snack sponsor. IQ Bar is the better for you plant protein based snacks made with brain boosting nutrients to refuel, nourish and satisfy hunger without the sugar crash. IQ Bar's plant protein bars are packed with high quality ingredients to help keep you

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That's LegalAF to 64,000. Message and data rates may apply. See terms for details. What will likely come out of that is a ruling by the judge. He may rule from the bench, he may take it under advisement, but I think he's gonna rule from the bench.

And if he rules for California, which would be a momentous shove back by the federal judiciary against Donald Trump, then we're gonna have, we know, an immediate appeal by Donald Trump to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This is all going to be the tick-tock, the timeline for Thursday. In the meantime, Donald Trump, taking a page out of the Harvard playbook, is attacking California,

wasting our hard taxpayer dollars of $140 million in order to send the Marines and take over the National Guard. For what reason? The protests were not that bad, and law enforcement there on the ground could have handled it and is handling it, would have handled it a lot better had Trump coordinated with California before they purposefully sent in the federal bootjacks in order to foment this kind of uprising in order to suppress it. That's what we're watching. So that's what's gonna happen in court. Now let me just leave it on

this. Breyer is a very interesting selection. First of all, he's senior status. He's 83. He's probably went senior status eight or nine or 10 years ago. But think about who his brother is. Stephen Breyer, now retired and free to speak, went after in his own way Donald Trump in the last several months supporting Chief Justice Roberts, saying that Donald Trump's attack on the federal judiciary was wrong and inappropriate, and the federal judiciary needs to stand up against Donald Trump. And now his brother is the one that's going to make this decision about how much we're going to stand up against Donald Trump. The case is important.

And as I've said before, the attempt by California to stop the fascist, totalitarian instincts of Donald Trump is important to our democracy. Just like Harvard can't lose against Donald Trump or really bad things will happen in public education in this world and in America. California can't lose because it will only embolden Donald Trump to try to take over and attack other blue states. And there's another 22 or 23 of them out there. And so the fight, which I put my money on Rob Bonta,

the Attorney General for California and Gavin Newsom, he had no choice. His hand was forced. They literally attacked Gavin Newsom and threatened to put him in jail. And so he, you know, other than saying in social media, you want a piece of me, or words to that effect, the lawsuit we knew was coming. Exactly what we outlined, ultra-varez, rogue, breach of the Constitution, the 10th Amendment. And now it's all in the hands, the capable hands

of Charles Breyer at the San Francisco Federal Courthouse. We'll continue to report on it. Tune back in here. We're gonna get our hands on the briefing tomorrow from Donald Trump. We'll post it on Legal AF, the substack. We're gonna get our hands on the next filing on Thursday morning. We'll post it. We'll report on it. Legal AF, substack. And then of course we'll zoom in if we can to the hearing and report on it in real time here on MidasTouch and on Legal AF. Come on over to Legal AF and help us continue to grow that pro-democracy channel at Legal AF MTN. So until my 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

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