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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Exclusive Interview on Legal Battle Against Trump and Musk’s 'Coup'
Sat, 22 Feb 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes who refers to Trump and Musk’s plundering of the government as a “coup” and discusses her various lawsuits against Trump. 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
What lawsuits has Arizona AG Kris Mayes filed against Trump and Musk?
The lawsuits are here. One, two, three, four, at least five major lawsuits that are being filed by state attorney generals throughout the country. Five filed by the state attorney general of Arizona, Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays. Let's welcome her onto the Midas Touch show. Attorney General Mays, five lawsuits.
Tell us generally what these are about, these lawsuits against Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Yeah, thanks for having me. The state AGs have filed multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration and Doge and Elon Musk for a number of different reasons. We filed against his executive order on birthright citizenship, which is obviously unconstitutional and violates the 14th Amendment. We now have two lawsuits against Doge, essentially. One when Doge infiltrated the Treasury Department.
We have one alleging that Elon Musk and President Trump are violating the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. We've fought back and filed a lawsuit to stop the federal funding freeze that would have devastated basically all of our states. By freezing federal funding, we got a TRO against Trump in essentially all of these cases. Almost all of these cases, we have gotten a TRO to stop him.
And essentially what's going on, and I've said this before, I'll say it again, this is a coup. This is a coup by Donald Trump against our Constitution, against our way of governing ourselves. because they are violating over and over and over again, not only the separation of powers, but also violating the court orders that we are getting.
We have multiple federal judges who are saying to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, stop this now, and yet we believe they're violating those orders.
So what do you do when there's a coup that is violating the structure, the express language, the spirit, all of that of the Constitution? And we pro-democracy law and order people are playing by the rules. They're not playing by the rules. And they're the federal government and they run the Department of Justice.
So if a federal judge orders them in contempt, what are they just going to pardon their people? I mean, how do you combat a situation where, as in your words, a lawless coup is taking place?
Yeah, I mean, it's a great question. It's something that the AGs, I'll tell you, are discussing. I mean, first of all, let's just take a step back, Ben, and think about just how unprecedented this is. This is a territory and waters we have never been in before as a country. And I think we've never been in a more dangerous place. than we are today, at least since the Civil War.
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