The Intersection with Michael Popok

If Trump thought that keeping the Government shut would make voters forget that he's embroiled in a coverup at the highest levels of the Epstein child sex trafficking ring, he's in for a rude awakening. Old social media posts of JD Vance long forgot have surfaced; new reporting that MAGA House members have been briefed by the DOJ that the Epstein files are worse for Trump than first imagined; and...

No one in the DOJ wants to tangle with James Comey's daughter career prosecutor Maureen Comey, and not one US Attorneys' Office or unit of the DOJ in DC has appeared in court to represent the DOJ in her suit for wrongful firing and to be reinstated. Popok reports that Judge Furman is not happy, and has ordered that the DOJ get its act together soon and get an attorney assigned to the case, and tha...

The Intersection is back with a special Veteran’s day addition. Join Popok as he dissects the lates US Supreme Court decision that impacts 42 million hungry Americans; the Trump Administration’s efforts to get permission to beat First Amendment protestors; Trump finally admitting that he is likely to lose his Tariff case at the Supreme Court and is now blaming his lawyers about it; Trump’s efforts...

Trump finally figured out that he is likely to lose at the Supreme Court who will likely strike down his Tariff scheme and force him to pay back hundreds of billions of dollars, and in a 12:37 am rant, is already blaming his Solicitor General John Sauer for the loss! Popok reports on Trump finally figuring out that he's been lied to by his DOJ and that the oral argument went so horribly for him th...

The Trump Administration isn't content with just starving Americans to death by cutting off their food funding, they have raced to the 7th Circuit Appeals Court for permission to beat them too, and use unreasonable force against First Amendment protestors, journalists, veterans, and clergyman, including tackling them, hitting them with their cars, and firing tear gas and pepper balls at them. Popo...

In breaking news, a second federal judge, following the lead of Chief Judge McConnel, has issued a new restraining order blocking the Trump Administration from clawing back the $5 billion in SNAP anti hunger payments they made to 1 in 8 Americans who live below the poverty line, at the same time that the First Circuit blocked Trump from refusing to pay hungry Americans the rest of the money he owe...

We are now on a 48 hour clock to see if the Supreme Court will allow Trump to starve Americans, who are checking their SNAP/anti hunger payment accounts hourly to see if they can feed their families today or not. Popok explains that with the new First Circuit denial of Trump's request to not make another of $3 billion in payments to hungry American families below the poverty line, he is now forced...

In breaking news, the Supreme Court has for now rejected an effort by MAGA conservatives to have the Court overturn the constitutional right to same sex marriage, there not being at least 4 votes at a consideration conference to take up the matter on appeal. Popok dissects the case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to sam sex couples 10 years ago, and the MAGA...

In a scorching dissent addressed to the MAGA 6 on the Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took her title seriously, and metes out justice to protect the transgender American community who are being forced to have their "gender assigned at birth" listed on their passports, not for some legitimate "foreign affairs" reason, but because Trump hates the community. Popok reports that KBJ callis...

The Trump Administration has already refused to comply with a court order of Chief Judge McConnell forcing him to "care about Americans" and feed the poor by paying out SNAP anti-hunger payments to 42 million Americans by Friday. Popok reports on the new emergency order, and the immediate appeal by the Trump Administration moments later. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmat...

On a special Election Night in America episode of The Intersection Podcast, Michael Popok covers: Halligan’s “US Attorney” position on life support with new court order. Federal Judges jumping on Trump’s denying 42 million people anti-hunger finding. A federal Judge issues an emergency injunction against Trump and his abuse of the National Guard on Blue Cities. And the MAGA 6 are the hottest of se...

In breaking news, a new emergency motion has been filed against the Trump Administration for refusing to fund billions in SNAP/food stamp payments to 42 million below the poverty line Americans despite clear Court order, as public interest groups demand that Chief Judge McConnell act quickly to stop hunger and starvation. Popok reports on this fast moving story as we await a new TRO from Judge Tal...

In breaking news, the Trump Administration has folded under the weight of 2 Federal Court Emergency Orders, and has told the Courts that they will begin making over $4.65 billion in SNAP/Foodstamps payments immediately to the Nation's most vulnerable population --babies, children, the elderly and disabled, who live below the poverty line. Popok explains how this happened, and what it means today i...

We haven't heard the last of Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is just getting warmed up. Now, based on new reporting, he has told close friends that he is itching to speak directly to the American People about Trump's criminality, an opportunity denied to him by the Supreme Court and Judge Cannon, about both the Election Interference case and Mar a Lago Espionage and Obstruction case agains Trump a...

Federal Judge Walker has ordered Trump's novice prosecutor Lindsey Halligan in the NYAG Letitia James prosecution to STOP using a disappearing messaging app to make documents and communications disappear! Popok dissects the new order which also gags the Government from making statements outside the courtroom that would undermine Ms. James right to a fair trial, while allowing her to defend herself...

In breaking news, an Oregon Federal Judge issued a late night emergency Preliminary Injunction against the Trump Administration to stop the deployment of any state national guard troops on the streets of Portland, as she prepares her PERMANENT and FINAL injunction in the next 4 days. Popok explains Judge Immergut's new emergency ruling, why she had to order it when Trump refused her request, and w...

In breaking news, a Boston Federal Judge found away to avoid a bad Supreme Court ruling, by instructing the Trump Administration to come up with a plan by Monday to use Congress' 6 billion in congress contingency funds to avoid 40 million Americans from starving to death by cutting off their SNAP/food stamp payments, as she warns that she may issue an injunction if she doesn't like their response....

In a stunning new motion, Former FBI Director James Comey tells Judge Nachmanoff that it is highly likely that Lindsey Halligan, a prosecutor for all of a month, committed Grand Jury Misconduct, and are demanding that the Court give them the Grand Jury transcripts and audio files. Popok explains that Judge Currie who will make the decision whether Halligan survives as a prosecutor at all under ano...

In a stunning new motion, Former FBI Director James Comey tells Judge Nachmanoff that it is highly likely that Lindsey Halligan, a prosecutor for all of a month, committed Grand Jury Misconduct, and are demanding that the Court give them the Grand Jury transcripts and audio files. Popok explains that Judge Currie who will make the decision whether Halligan survives as a prosecutor at all under ano...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers have pointed out to a Federal Judge in a new filing that the Trump DOJ has produced absolutely 0 evidence to prove to the Court that they are NOT vindictively prosecuting him, no witnesses and no documents, so the Court should just dismiss the criminal indictment immediately. Popok reports on this development and Judge Xinis making a decision soon on whether Garcia g...

The Supreme Court may be signaling that Trump does NOT have the votes he thinks he has to continue to federalize the national guard and violate States Rights, with a new 1 paragraph order that came out late yesterday. Popok explains why Trump may be in trouble as the Supreme Court doesn't have the votes yet to give him more power, and is asking for more briefing on one particular issue. Subscribe:...

A federal judge gags AG Bondi and others from speaking in public to undermine Abrego Garcia’s right to a fair trial. A federal judge takes steps to ensure that Abrego Garcia isn’t retaliated against and sent to Liberia in the next few hours. Lindsey Halligan is up to her eyeballs in hot water, with a new suit brewing about her destruction of public records in a new “Signal-gate” scandal, and a Cli...

Trump filing getting around to filing his appeal brief raising tired old arguments to undo his 34 felony count conviction in New York is not the news; the headline is the ethical dilemma yet another Trump lawyer and firm have with trying to represent both Trump as President and Trump personally, representing him in his appeals, while also serving as secret government lawyers to squeeze fellow law...

Two federal judges are scrambling to rein in the lawless Trump Administration over its mistreatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, issuing sharp orders against the government this week. Michael Popok reports on Judge Crenshaw’s finding that Attorney General Pam Bondi and others made “troubling” comments that jeopardize Garcia’s Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial—and his order to stop it. Meanwhile, J...

The former Jan 6 Committee chair, Bennie Thompson has declared that the Trump's destruction of a portion of the White House is nothing short of the "demolition" of the "heart of Nation" and is demanding answers from the American corporations who donated to a project that in his words has "left a gaping hole in the side of the White House." Popok has a copy of the letter and explains what will happ...