Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Gets INSTANTLY HIT with Lawsuits after INAUGURATION

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

The Trump Administration is just minutes old and already he is FACA’d; his phony DOGE group headed by Musk is in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (“FACA”), says 2 new federal lawsuits filed in the DC federal court. Michael Popok explains the if they are an outside group, DOGE is violating FACA and if they are an inside group, they are in violation of constitutional delegation doctrine, and in either event they are subject to having to turn over all of their data, information and personnel records under public records laws. Smalls: Head to https://Smalls.com/LEGALAF and use promo code: LEGALAF at checkout for 50% off your first order PLUS free shipping! Visit https://meidastouch.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 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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That means it looks like he has violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the FACA, by creating a phony FACA, I'm not making this up, in the form of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is neither a department nor in the government. And that is a problem. Two new lawsuits just filed within minutes after the swearing in today. Did that happen? I was watching Puppies and Kittens on the MidasTouch network, but assuming it did happen, new lawsuits were already coming. Oh, chef's kiss. I said that there were going to be two lawsuits in the first 48 hours, one against Doge, the other against Donald Trump's executive orders not recognizing birthright

citizenship under the 14th Amendment. That'll be for another hot take. Let's get into the suits against Doge. They're either inside or out. They're either innies or they're outies. If they're inside the government, they've got a problem with an inappropriate delegation of authority from the executive branch. If they're outside the government, then they are an illegal, impermissible FACA, right, federal advisory committee that had to have filed a charter with Congress, keep minutes, and more importantly, have an open process, be fair and objective, and have on their committee, you know, a part of their membership, stakeholders concerning the issue that is at hand. Where are the federal employees or federal employee

representatives on DOGE? It's all it's all made up it's all made up, but it's also all made up of Elon Musk and his tech bros is Silicon Valley bros. It's the it's the PayPal mafia. It's the teal group It's all that it's all those tech bros have no federal employees whatsoever, no stakeholder from within. It violates FACA. FACAs have to comply with that law or they get put out of their misery, put out of existence. The other argument that Donald Trump is going to try to make is that they're not an advisory committee at all and don't have to comply with that law, but that they're inside the

government and they are part of the Office of Management and Budget. An Office of Management and Budget headed by who? Headed by Russell Vaught, who is the architect and the father, self-proclaimed, of Project 2025 for the Heritage Foundation. He's now in charge of the Congresses and the government's purse strings and checkbook. So if they're affiliated with them and they're sharing office space with OMB, then we have another problem

that the lawsuits will address. Then we have an improper delegation of authority from the executive branch to this quasi-legislative thing, or even within the executive branch, improper delegation. Not a properly established, not properly established by the Constitution or by Congress. No check, no balance. That's also a problem. So the two new lawsuits filed right where I thought they would be, DC Circuit Court. That is going to be where we're going to live over the next four years. The DC Circuit Court, which leans to the left. A lot of

Obama, Biden, and Clinton appointees are on the DC Circuit Court. That's where Judge Chuckin was who presided over the Trump election interference case and a lot of the Jan 6th prosecutions. That's the court we're going to live in for the next four years. Take a seat, grab some popcorn or a yogurt and let's go. All right. DC case filed, two different cases. One filed by an organization called Democracy Forward, which represents a bunch of veterans, public health officers and others,

claiming a FACA violation. That's why I started with Donald Trump is FACA'd. And then you have another group of, with an entity that's called National Security Counselors who's brought their case also in DC Circuit Court, or yeah, the trial court level for DC. Now these cases may be combined before one judge, or they may not be, we'll continue to follow it.

What I find even laughable about Doge is how many people are already bailing out of it and the administration is a minute old. Remember that guy, Vivek Ramaswamy, right? All excited to be with Elon Musk and to form this new entity. He's already out! He's already out. He's already kissed it goodbye. He's now left Doge, the thing that didn't exist. I don't know how you leave a job that never existed, but he's done it. And now he's

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This is why I quit my day job to join Midas Touch Network full-time here. So the suits are just getting going. The next one you're going to see this week, you'll see me right back here, here on Legal AF, the YouTube channel is going to be when Donald Trump signs that executive order and it's challenged immediately saying that the federal government that he now controls will not recognize the US citizenship of US citizens who were born on US soil and therefore are US citizens under section 14th amendment section one because their parents are undocumented or have some sort of compromised immigration status.

It doesn't matter since the Supreme Court case from 1898, it doesn't matter, Trump, and you can't by executive order in the giant rock, paper, and scissor, you can't beat a constitutional amendment. Only another constitutional amendment with two-thirds of the states approving it, with two-thirds of Congress, good luck approving it. Or an interpretation by the United States Supreme Court that is completely against over 100 years, 124 years of precedent. That could happen.

I just don't see it happening. But they're going to keep trying. Maga, Maga, Maga. Maga does, Maga sees. But they're gonna keep trying. MAGA, MAGA, MAGA. MAGA does, MAGA sees. MAGA goes to Supreme Court. Suddenly I'm Dr. Seuss, I'm sorry. So, it's those dogs and cats again. So, we're gonna see that lawsuit filed.

I'm gonna be right back here. But do I think they'll be able to slow down or stop Doge? Yes. Do I think they're gonna get under Donald Trump's skin? Absolutely. Do I think we're gonna get under Donald Trump's skin? Absolutely. Do I think we're gonna get the transparency that we need, not this black opaque box of this department? And if they are inside and not out, while we're litigating the improper delegation of authority from the executive branch to this thing,

we on the Midas Touchush Network and on Legal AF and others are gonna make Freedom of Information Act requests. FOIA public records request, give us your records please. Tell us all about the 18 people that are on there. Give us your minutes. Where are your records? What are you discussing?

What are you considering? How much contact between you and the executive branch? Who's making the decisions branch? Who's making the decisions here? Who's in charge? That's a perfect FOIA request. Note to Ben and my other partners, we need to make a FOIA request. We'll continue to do it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and on LegalAF. You're already here. Hit the Midas Touch Subscribe button. Help the LegalAF YouTube channel. It desperately needs your help. We're over 415,000 subscribers in four months, but we need you to grow bigger independently without

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