Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Makes Emergency Filing as Comey Case Quickly Collapses

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

In an error filled “emergency filing” the Trump DOJ seeks to block the release of secret grand jury materials in the prosecution of Former FBI Director James Comey case, the files that according to one judge, demonstrate that Lindsey Halligan committed at least 2 cardinal violations of the US Constitution in her interactions with the Grand Jury, and findings that she likely misled or lied to another federal judge. Michael Popok explains that curiously, the filing IGNORES the lying and the constitutional violations completely and explains what will happen next with the District Court judge who will review the transcripts for himself. Everyday Dose: Go to https://EverydayDose.com/legalaf for 45% OFF your first order! 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, I never saw the Department of Justice in a cold sweat before, but now I have. They filed an emergency motion with typos to the federal judge in the former FBI director James Comey criminal case in which they said, and completely ignored what the magistrate judge is, the heart of the magistrate judge's order related to the grand jury transcripts in which he ordered the release of the grand jury transcripts. They objected to that, filed an appeal to the district court judge. Judge Nakmanoff, but completely ignored the heart of what we reported on that's in the judge's order, which is a couple of things. One, Lindsay Halligan violated the Constitution not once, but at least twice in her presentation of the indictment to the grand jury, turning the Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment upside down and putting the burden on the defense to prove their defense

instead of on the prosecution to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt to suggest to the grand jury that Comey had an obligation, while he does not, has an obligation to somehow refute the evidence of the prosecution or to testify on his own behalf. I mean, legal A.F. audience knows better than that. You don't even have to go to law school for that. Just watch law and order. So that happened, but they completely ignored in their emergency filing as if it didn't happen. See, this is what you do when you have major screw-ups and you're whistling past the graveyard, hoping nobody will notice, okay?

The second major observation or finding made by Judge Fitzpatrick ignored in the emergency filing is that there's a lie that there is something amiss, I'll put it nicely, in the filings by Pam Bondi, the Attorney General,

and by Lindsay Halligan in a related matter in front of Judge Curry in which they said, no, there's no two-hour missing aspect of the grand jury proceedings. Have you heard, about the two hours that's missing between 4.30 and 6.30, where did it go? Oh, Judge Curry, you're wrong, they said in a filing that was then used against them and shoved up their backside by magistrate Judge

Fitzpatrick. See, Judge, that's when the grand jury deliberated. You can't have, telling a 30-year federal judge, you can't have a court reporter there for that. That's not what's missing, Lindsay. And Judge Fitzpatrick pointed it out. He said, I thought because you had two indictments when you've only should have had one that you went back into the grand jury to get the second indictment. But now it's obvious you say you never went back into the grand jury

then how did you learn of the problem of the second indictment? One with three counts and one with two counts, only one can be right. How did you find that out if you didn't go back in and where's the transcript related to the second indictment? Somebody's lying and their names, I'll give you their initials,

Pam Bondi and Lindsay Allegan. So they ignore that in their emergency filing. I'm Michael Popak. I'll tell you what they said in their emergency filing here on the Midas Touch Network and on legal AF. So they file this emergency filing. They spell the word pursuant wrong.

Note to self, word does not spell check all caps. I'll leave you at that. And they say in there, they focus only on this other, like the tertiary issue raised by magistrate judge, Fitzpatrick, where he said, and there's another problem. you've trampled over the attorney-client privilege of James Comey and his relationship with his lawyer, Daniel Richmond, now a professor at Columbia, then an FBI special employee who was his lawyer. And you didn't properly safeguard the privilege in terms of preparing the FBI agent for his testimony before the grand jury.

So you tainted the FBI with potential attorney-client privileged information. because you had this information since 2015. You didn't take any steps to protect it. You didn't protect it. You didn't take any steps to put up a wall, a compliance wall to make sure that people that shouldn't see attorney-client privilege information don't see it. That's what they focus on in their emergency filing.

Let me read to you, and I'm going to put it up on LegalAF substacks so you can get a copy of it. Emergency motion. They're asking for the, when they want to have time to go to the next level, the district court judge, Judge Nakmanoff and have him decide on the grand jury release of the transcripts issue,

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Here's what they say on page five. The government believes the magistrate judge may have misinterpreted some facts he found when issuing the latest order to release the grand jury materials to the defendant. but then they don't cite to really anything. They just say, for instance, whether the defendant has any standing to challenge the Richmond materials, additionally, the magistrate judge acknowledges that he did not immediately recognize any overtly privileged communications. Totally focused on the privilege. What about the fact that Lindsay Allegan committed two cardinal sins and violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendment

and instructing the grand jury? No, we'll ignore that completely. You know, does it ignore that? Comey's lawyers. So they file an opposition paper late last night, this all happened late last night, in which they say on page three, the government contends in its motion to stay

that Judge Fitzpatrick may have misinterpreted some facts, including Mr. Comey standing to challenge the Richmond materials. Second, it's difficult to see how Judge Fitzpatrick could misunderstand the nature of Ms. Halligan's statements to the grand jury when they are on their face appear to be. fundamental misstatements of the law, which they ignore in their filing. Here's what Comey's lawyers say on page five. The defendant faces trial in seven weeks on an indictment that the government

secured through what appears to be significant and prejudicial constitutional errors that affected Mr. Comey's fundamental rights. The government has had the Richmond warrant materials for more than five years. The government's severe misconduct before the grand jury in this matter provides an additional basis for Comey to move to dismiss the deeply flawed indictment, and Mr. Comey needs the grand jury material in order to do so. Now, speaking of orders, Judge McNamanoff, who ultimately decides these things, magistrate judge reports to federal district court judge, who's the Article III judge with

lifetime appointment confirmed by the Senate. He said, all right, you will, I mean, I'm giving, the exasperation is my artist rendering. But here's the order, that the government shall file any objections to Judge Fitzpatrick's Fitzpatrick's order by Wednesday, November 19th. The defense will file a response by Friday, and then he's going to decide the issue. Let me short-circuit all of this. Judge Nachmanoff is going to back Judge Fitzpatrick. He's going to grant it.

He's going to look at the grand jury materials himself. He's going to order them to be provided to the other side, plain and simple, and I think he's going to spot some major infirmities and abuse of power by Lindsay Halligan, that novice prosecutor who went in there by herself, apparently, having been a federal prosecutor for less than two days, having really never practiced in federal court and never been a prosecutor. I mean, they set her up for failure, probably on purpose of the Department of Justice. Nobody from Washington, nobody from Maine Justice, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Stan Woodward, they're all buried their head, they're saying, nobody ran down and helped her.

Nobody sat with her. She went in by herself. And of course, she screwed it up, royal law. and constitutionally, he's going to find that, he's going to grant this, and there's going to be a motion now to dismiss the indictment, not just on obscenely vindictive prosecution and outrageous conduct, which they've already filed, but also to dismiss the indictment because of the problems in the presentation to the grand jury in the grand jury process itself. It's rarely granted, but here, I think this is an easy one.

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