FURIOUS Judge DEMANDS Trump TURN OVER RECORDS NOW!!!

Ajouté : 2026-05-29

[00:00:00]Judge Barl Howell, a federal judge in the District of Columbia, is taking matters seriously about whether the Trump administration, its new director of homeland security and ICE, are planning to scare the crap out of voters at the polls using ICE agents and military. The Department of Justice and others in the administration scoff at that, like, well, what's the big deal about having uh, you know, armed agents walking around intimidating people at polling places? But Judge Barl Howell, who knows a thing or two about intimidation and the impact on an election, having presided over most of the grand jury work that led to the indictment of Donald Trump for election interference, Judge Barl Howell has now issued just in the last few moments what I consider to be the world, the Guinness World Book of Records for longest minute order. A minute order is a docket entry.

[00:00:55]It usually lasts about a paragraph. This goes on for several screens, meaning that the judge is very concerned that there be no delay. and she's ordered that they the government produce on her schedule all documents to the Democratic National Committee and the other plaintiffs led by Mark Elias Democracy Forward uh democracy docket um to produce those documents ASAP so that from there the Democratic National Committee and others can take appropriate steps in court including potentially getting an injunction to block it. Got to get the documents and information first and you're getting yours here on Legal AF. I'm Michael Popock. Hit the free subscribe button.

[00:01:40]Let's get to the what I refer to as the world's longest minute order. Just shows you how how quickly she wanted to get this order out. Now, Barl Howell used to be the chief judge of all things in the federal district court in the District of Columbia. She presided over dozens of Jan 6th insurrectionist trials. She sentenced many of them, all of which have now, of course, been pardoned. She also was the judge involved with the trial of Rudy Giuliani for defamation uh that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of damages being awarded to Ruby Freeman and Sheay Moss. Just wanted to orient you as to which judge we're talking about. She successfully opposed many things the Trump administration has tried to do, including trying to put law firms on blacklists and deny them the ability to earn a living representing people before the government because Donald Trump didn't like the law firms or who they hired or what lawyers were working there, etc. Here's the minute order that has just come out. um upon consideration of the party's joint meet and confer report.

[00:02:48]That means the parties were required to report to the judge after having a discussion about where they were directing defendants to begin processing records potentially responsive to plaintiff's request at a rate of 500 pages per month for each outstanding request. Further directing the parties to file by July 1 another joint status report. The judge is now stepping in at issue in this case. The judge says is defendants responses to plaintiff's 11 freedom of information act request to three defendants. The Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Defense seeking records related to the deployment of uniformed military or National Guard personnel to polling places, ballot dropboxes, or election offices. You know, that's serious.

[00:03:36]Judges take voter intimidation really seriously. Supreme Court may not, but your run-of-the-mill district court judge really does. Even if you have the head of the Department of Justice makes statements like this one, play the clip of Todd Blanch so you see what's concerning the judge. Play it.

[00:03:52]>> Now, when it comes to ICE officers, you recently expressed some support to deploy them to polling locations, armed federal officers. Now, how do you reconcile that with obviously the federal law that prohibits federal law enforcement to be armed at these locations?

[00:04:06]>> Well, I didn't that's not true. I I have not said that. Um what I what we have talked about is whether there's a need to um to make sure our elections are fair that to make sure that only people who are supposed to be voting are voting which isn't an incredible um statement to be made by a government official. I hope everybody in Congress everybody in in the Senate thinks that. Now the other thing is if you're here illegally you are not allowed to vote. So, I also am not sure of the uproar of the risk of having a border patrol or an ICE agent at a polling location or looking into whether somebody is voting that shouldn't be. If you are here illegally, you cannot vote. And so, what's the risk? Why wouldn't everybody in Washington, everybody in the United States be supportive of that to make sure that people that are here illegally are not voting? I don't know.

[00:04:50]>> So, you are in support of federal immigration officers to be checking the validity of someone's voting status. I was not talking about whether I'm supporting or not supporting it. My point is that this idea should not be complicated. It's it's what we're saying is that if you are here illegally, you can't vote. How do we find out if somebody is here illegally? All kinds of different ways. One way is using um immigration information and databases that the Border Patrol has and and we will do everything that we can to keep people from voting who shouldn't vote.

[00:05:19]>> All right. over the last several months, seven months, the judge continues, the defendants have produced no responsive records. So, she said, "I'll give you a break. 500 a month." So, there should be 3500 pages already produced. So far, it's zero. The components of the three agencies um have not yet are as follows.

[00:05:39]The the Federal Protection Service has not started the search. Custom and Border Patrol has no timeline as to when the search will be completed. ICE has found no documents and the Department of Homeland Security has about 2,000 documents that may be responsive and they're still searching. As to the DOJ, the Criminal Division has found no responsive documents. The FBI says that it anticipates getting stuff done by July 17th. You can see where this judge is going now. And that they've collected 55 gigabytes of data. The parties commendably work together to reduce the review burden by narrowing narrowing the scope of search. And as of yet, there's no searches yet begun by these entities.

[00:06:21]You can see she's getting hotter and hotter as she writes this order, this minute order.

[00:06:28]While defendants urged that the processing of the request to issue not be expedited, plaintists focus on the time-sensitive importance of the records, the importance of the records to the prospect of a free and fair election in November. Indeed, the time-sensitive nature of the request uh and the fact the records are sought to inform an imminent public debate dictate the resolution of the party's competing proposals. The 2026 midterm elections are currently already unfolding. people are already voting. The court's equitable powers uh to expedite processing will thus be relied upon to supplement the work of both sides.

[00:07:06]Um, and she therefore says that she's going to enforce and set a an or she's going to set a timeline here that's going to get these documents into the hands of those that need them in order to do whatever injunction they need to do in an expeditious fashion. So, it's the right thing to do. She let the parties work it out. She gave reasonable aspirational goals. And when those goals were met with derision or um the federal government just sort of mocked the judge by not producing any documents at all, she stepped back in and said, "I got this." You know, let the parties work it out. And she's even commending the lawyers. It's She doesn't believe it's the lawyer's fault. She believes it's the client's fault on the on the government side. Well, of course it is.

[00:07:58]You think the government cares? You know, they think it's an okay thing.

[00:08:03]They've always said it was an okay thing to send agents to the polling place.

[00:08:08]Look, I've grown up being a poll watcher, being an election lawyer inside the polls in uh to make sure that there's a full and fair and free election and election integrity and make sure voters aren't afraid. They don't pull up to the polling place, see, you know, a whole, you know, a van filled with masked agents and say, "You know what? Screw this. I don't who needs this. I don't think I've done anything wrong. Did I pay that parking ticket?

[00:08:36]Did I return that library book? Is my tail light broken? I'm out of here." You know, so it's not just scaring off the criminals. It's scaring off people who who just were like, I don't need this. I don't And the line is longer as a result. You know, anytime the federal government gets involved with a process, the line doesn't get shorter, it gets longer. And that shouldn't be. I mean, the states run elections. That's why states have rules on the books. States have rules on the books about law enforcement in uniform. If they're not voting, hanging around a polling place, they're not allowed. There's a there's a level of security, but they can't stand there brandishing their weapons and sort of, you know, glaring with their, you know, sorry, with their aviator frames, you know, and their hats as people are trying to vote. There's a good reason that the founding fathers wanted states to control elections and to cut down on voter intimidation, which is therefore another version of voter suppression. We're glad that Barl Howell is here. will continue to follow the case and the resulting case once the documents are turned over, which I'm sure are going to reveal they're planning to do exactly that, scare the crap out of Democrats, primarily in blue states. You already hear uh Trump announcing that in 19 states, I'm I'm assuming they're all blue or purple.

[00:09:58]He's going to be sending in election integrity lawyers to Yeah. So are we.

[00:10:03]You know, I got news for him. I've been doing this a long time myself, Trump.

[00:10:06]more than you have and I have voted more than you have and I've been an election uh election integrity lawyer and and a lawyer for the parties more than you have and the Democrats are ready as well and every for every Republican that's going to be standing in a precinct there's going to be a counterpart Democrat lawyer well-trained well-versed you know in that room as well you know and I'll be there 10 minutes before the Republicans with a box of crispy cream donuts and a box of coffee making friends with the election workers before the poll even opens. So until my next report, I'm Michael Pop. You're on Legal AF. Take a minute, hit the free subscribe button. Till my next report, this is Michael. I'm Michael Popac and I got some big news for our audience. Most of you know me as the co-founder of Midas Touches Legal AF and the Legal AF YouTube channel or as a 35-year national trial lawyer. Now building on what we started together on Legal AF, I've launched a new law firm, the Popo Firm, dedicated to obtaining justice through compassionate and zealous legal representation. At the Pope Firm, we are focused on obtaining justice for those who have been injured or damaged by a lifealtering event by securing the highest dollar recoveries. I've been tirelessly fighting for justice for the last 35 years. So, my own law firm, organically building on my legal AF work, just feels right. And I've handpicked a team of top tier trial fighters and settlement experts throughout all 50 states known as Big Auto injury attorneys who have the knowhow to beat heartless insurance companies, corporations, government entities, and their attorneys. Big Autos attorneys working with my firm are rock stars in their respective states and collectively responsible for billions of dollars in recoveries. So, if you or a loved one have been on the wrong side of a catastrophic auto, motor vehicle, ride share, or truck accident, suffered a personal injury, or been the victim of medical malpractice, employment harassment or discrimination, or suffered a violation of your civil and constitutional rights, then contact the Pope Firm today at 1877 pop af or by visiting my website at www.thepopfirm.com and fill out a free case evaluation form. And if we determine that you have a case and you sign with us, we don't get paid unless you do. The Pope firm fighting for your justice every step of the