Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Admin Instantly Blocked from Unleashing Disaster

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

In breaking news, a federal judge has blocked the Trump Administration and RFK Jr’s anti-vax policies, allowing children and babies to go without Hepatitis, meningitis, COVID19, influenza, and Rotavirus vaccines based on the policy set by a band of anti-vaxxers RFK Jr. brought in to the Center for Disease Control and the Congressionally-required vaccine committee. Popok reports on how a Supreme Court decision that Trump once supported may lead to Trump losing again on trying to destroy public health. Subscribe:  @LegalAFMTN  Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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who has put up the big stop sign against RFK Jr. and his whole band of merry anti-vaxxers, which make up his committee related to advisory opinions about which vaccines children should take. Judge Murphy has said, no, you're not going to fire 17 experts on vaccines and immunology, replace them with a whole group of people who have no background or expertise in that particular science, and then tell American doctors and pediatricians to remove at least six vaccines from the recommended list, including meningitis vaccines against rhodovirus, influenza, hepatitis A and B and COVID-19.

That's a, it's a good day when we're not allowing children to get meningitis. And what Judge Murphy found is that RFK Jr., that notorious anti-vaxxer, that non-scientist, he's barely a lawyer, an environmental lawyer at that. He doesn't get to undermine public health. Even the White House is concerned about RFK Jr. they're trying to rein him in. Remember at the start of the administration, Donald Trump effectively turned over all of public health

over to RFK Jr. And said he could run wild. Well, how's that going? Not great with the largest measles outbreak in the country. Let me read to you from Judge Murphy's order and get down to it here on the Midas Touch Network while you're here. Take a minute.

Come over to Legal AF YouTube channel, won't you? And hit the free subscribe button. Following this case very closely, since it was filed back in the summer of 2025 and updated in September of 2025. Just in January of this year, after he fired the entirety of the 17-member panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and don't be fooled by the advisory part, it is a congressional, statutory, mandated stakeholder in the decision-making about children's health.

and to RFK Jr., it was just an unnecessary guardrail around his crazy anti-vax theories. And so he fired them all and replaced them with many people, while don't be fooled by the doctor in their title, are not doctors related to anything concerning vaccines or immunology or anything like that. And that was called out by Judge Murphy as well. Who can forget when the gravely voiced R.S. FK Jr. during one of his many oversight committee hearings had this exchange about his advisory committee and other and other lies. In fact, let me play back to back clips. Simply trying to say

that the people that you have put on that panel after firing the entire... You're evading the question. No, I'm asking the questions here. You're evading that question. I'm asking the questions Mr. Kennedy. I'm asking the questions for Mr. Kennedy on behalf of of parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America who deserve so much better than your leadership. That's what this conversation is about, Mr. Chairman. Senator, they deserve the truth, and that's what we're going to give them for the first time in the history of that agency. We tell the head of the CDC that if she refused to sign off on your changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, that she had to resign?

No, I told her that she had to resign because I asked her, are you a trustworthy person? And she said no. So I'm sorry, but this is not what she has said publicly. She has said she was surprised about that. So you're saying she's mine? Yes.

Every conversation I had with her that were witnesses. And let me get just straight. This is the same person that less than a month earlier, you stood next to her and described her, as unimpeachable and you had full confidence in her and that you had full confidence in her scientific credentials. And in a month she became a liar. Yeah, you should ask her what changed. And by the way, a month ago you were voting against her because you thought she was either incompetent, ineligible, or unsuited to the task.

I was not against her because I was afraid she was going to bend the need of you and Donald Trump. And it looks like she didn't bend the niece, so you fired her. Are you telling us that the former head of CDC went to you? You asked her, are you a trustworthy person? And she said, no, I am not a trustworthy person? She didn't say, no, I'm not a trustworthy person. She said no. Wow.

I'm having a quote. And you're also repeating now that she is a liar, correct? What she wrote in the Wall Street Journal. If she wrote that I fired her because, She refused to sign on in advance for the ASEP committee. No, that's not accurate. All right. You're calling her a liar.

And I look forward to her coming before the help committee. Maybe this committee as well. Now, here's what Judge Murphy, a Biden appointee, had to say in a case brought by, thank God, the American Academy of Pediatrics against RFK Jr. And the Department of Health and Human Services. Like I said at the start of the hot take, I thought he was going to start with, she blinded me with science by Thomas Dolby. me, but he started with Carl Sagan, first line of his order. Science is far from a perfect

instrument of knowledge. History is littered with once universal truths that now come under scrutiny, and nevertheless, science is still the best we have. And that's his starting point for his order. He talks about the advisory committee on immunization practices formed by Congress in 1964, Congress has recognized the importance of and value of having such independent experts the judge writes on page two involved in setting our national public health agenda by cementing the committee's role in the Center for Disease Controls, issuance of immunization schedules, determining which vaccines are available. Unfortunately, the judge says on page three, the government has disregarded those methods

and undermine the integrity of its actions. The government has removed all duly appointed members of the committee and replaced them without undertaking any of the rigorous screening that have been the hallmark of selection for decades, and they've abandoned technical knowledge and expertise embodied by the committee. The judge pointed it out by an exchange that he was particularly struck by during a hearing in which the lawyer for the Department of Health human services said this in response to a question from the judge. Their main argument was,

it's all discretion. And judges can't provide any oversight over what the agency does about what they think is healthy or not healthy, what they think should or shouldn't be a vaccine for a child. It's all unreviewable. See, that's the little dirty lie that the Trump administration always begins all of its motions with, that judges have no role in providing any oversight, even when you're talking about something simple like statutory interpretation. See, you have a statute which is created by Congress, the executive branch, in this case the Department of Health and Human Services needs to execute on that statute. And according to the government, if there is a gap or a variance between what the statute says and what the agency action is, well, that's just too bad.

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You figure out what's good for clean air and clean water. While the Supreme Court and John Roberts, the Chief Justice in particular, said, no, that's abdicating the responsibility of the judicial branch. It is the judicial branch, they said, in the ruling which overturned Chevron. It is the judicial branch that must interpret even highly technical statutes. Okay. Then why is the government still taking the position that agency, action, and discretion is unreviewable by courts? It's against the law, literally. So the judge says, let me test this theory of yours, that it's unreviewable, because that's what judges do.

We look at statutes and see if the executive branch is complies. with those statutes in promoting or effectuating the goals of the statutes or not, that's the judicial branch in our three tripartite branches of government, right? Our system of government. The court says this struck him on page 19. Let's say that instead of revising the vaccine schedule, that the Center for Disease Control said, we think measles are good for you. You should have measles lunches.

We should schedule measles all in every city and come. And we're pro-communicable disease. That would seem to go right up against the goal of preventing those diseases in the statute. Would it not, sir? Would such a policy by the CDC be just judicially reviewable? Could a court make a declaration about it? And I love the commitment here to the position even in the face of having to answer the question this way. The lawyer for the Center for Disease Control said,

I think it's agency discretion, Your Honor. And the court said, so even if what the agency is saying is we like communicable diseases, we think we should have more of them. That's not judicially reviewable? No. Suffice it to say, the court said. The court disagrees.

And would be unlikely to find much difficulty, for example, in assessing whether the secretary's theoretical endorsement of getting a communicable disease like measles could be reasonably calculated to, quote, advance the prevention and suppression of communicable diseases under the statute. That's what judges do. They interpret the statute. Then he took on the qualifications, and I use that term lightly, of the new members of the panel,

this advisory committee on immunization practices, the ASIP committee, which is at the heart of immunization recommendations. And there, this new committee, after the 17th, experts got fired by RFK Jr. How convenient. He put in a bunch of people, many of which are anti-vaxxers like him, who don't believe in many of the vaccines. And they say, well, we consulted with Germany and Japan and best practices in other countries. We're supposed to be one of the leading countries on health care. We know we're not. But we're one of the leading, especially on immunology, starting in the 60s. And we're now consulting with other countries. I thought other

countries were bad. I thought America first, but not apparently when it comes to health care. This is probably one of the reasons that the Trump administration is trying to reel back in JFK, RFK Jr. So this panel that eliminated hepatitis A&B influence, erotivirus, and meningitis from, and COVID from the list of recommended vaccines, is comprised of the following. Here's what they say. Here's the judge says on page 29. of the 15 members of the panel, I guess he couldn't find 17, even under the most generous readings, only six appeared to have any meaningful experience in vaccines. So nine out of the 15 are just quacks when it comes to vaccines.

You know, he says, and that's the very focus of the committee. He said, the statute requires that they have the expertise in vaccines. He says six of the ASIP members, Dr. Hillary Blackburn, Dr. Griffin, Dr. Hillbell, Dr. Milbone, Dr. Pagano, Dr. Pollack, lack any expertise or professional qualifications related to vaccines or immunization. An additional three, Dr. Levy, Dr. Malone, and Dr. Stein, although they have this information, he's effectively saying they're effectively anti-vaxxers. So no, the judge rules on preliminary injunction.

that they're more likely to prevail, that the public health issue and the impact of public health is so great, and the likelihood of success on the case so great that he's going to block it. Now, this is going to go up on appeal to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Massachusetts and Boston. It's going to end up with the United States Supreme Court. This is going to be an interesting test for the Supreme Court, as I said earlier, because in one of their decisions where they overturned this agency discretion standard, They said it's for judges to review, not for the agency's expertise to be completely deferred to, to be given agency discretion, it's called.

So I think right there the court says, we can review. The question is whether on this particular health topic, they're going to defer to the non-scientist, anti-vaxxer, RFK Jr., and his merry band of anti-vaxxers on the advisory committee on immunization practices, or they're going to let a judge determine that no, things that were done here in the execution of the law were improper and illegal. Sometimes they side with Donald Trump when it comes to immigration, migration, war powers, and the like. Sometimes they don't when it comes to aspects of the economy, like tariffs. This, they side with Trump when he's protecting Christian values rights, they don't side with him when it comes to other things that have to do with due process,

you know, constitutional due process issues. So we'll have to see where this one falls. I would hope it would fall in favor of protecting America and that these issues are too important. The protection of our children, the most fragile group in our society is too important to leave it to the crass politics and insane ramblings of rfk junior but we'll have to see we'll continue to follow it they may take that case up this year before they're done on an emergency application or otherwise and we will cover it on the mightest touch network and on legal a f in the meantime i'm michael popock until my next report can't get your fill of legal a f mean either that's why we form the legal a f substack every time we mention something in a hot take whether it's a court filing or a oral argument

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