The Intersection with Michael Popok

Trump is about to spy on his own spy agencies, with Tulsi Gabbard setting up the "Directors Initiative Group" (DIG) to create a giant database of 18 intelligence agencies emails and texts for her to run an AI program to try to find disloyal staffers. What could possibly go wrong with creating a giant database of classified and unclassified information for our enemies to hack? Popok discusses what...

Michael Popok is back at the Intersection with breaking news at the hot corner of law and politics and tackles: 1)  Trump's Big Beautiful Bill's attempts to defund and put Planned Parenthood out of business being blocked by a Big Beautiful Temporary Restraining Order; 2) Judge Xinis telling the DOJ, effectively, that they can't be trusted and ordering that they go under oath in the witness box thi...

Big Beautiful Bill meet Judge Talwani's Big Beautiful Temporary Restraining Order in favor of protecting Planned Parenthood from destruction by the Trump Administration. Popok explains why the Supreme Court's recent rulings in the last 10 days against Planned Parenthood and against federal judges using nationwide injunctions are irrelevant to the new case and won't stand in the way of the Court ma...

A pissed-off Judge Xinis closely questioned and then scolded new Trump DOJ lawyers who flipped-flopped for the 4th time in the case and now said that they would effectively abandon the manufactured criminal case against Abrego Garcia and just remove him in 2 weeks to a third country, not named El Salvador. Popok reports on the judge blurting out that getting answers that aren't "illogical" from th...

The worm has finally turned, as the Hispanic Vote comes crashing down around Trump's feet, a vote he desperately needs to win support at the midterms. Popok looks at the mass defection away from Trump of Hispanic Independent, Woman, GenZ, and even Biden Voters who switched to Trump, as new polling says Trump's disastrous Economic and Deportation Policies will likely be his ruin. Learn more about y...

Now that the smoke has cleared, there is a federal injunction out of Massachusetts in favor of 28 states against Trump's deranged anti-birthright citizenship executive order that remains standing in the smoldering ashes of the recent Supreme Court decision on nationwide injunctions. Popok sees Judge Sorokin's injunction protecting birthright citizenship in 28 states as the blueprint for how federa...

Trump is f'n with the US Economy again, and his mental slide makes it so he can't even get basic facts right about his own Tariff deadlines, a fact so obvious that his own commerce secretary had to bail him out and cut him off to answer a reporter's question. Popok looks at the fact that the Administration has signed a total of 2 deals, not the more than 90 promised, and even one of those with Chi...

The blood of those who have tragically died in the Texas "Guadalupe River" flood disaster, including a dozen little girls, is on the Trump Administration who callously cut funding to the National Weather Service, to research and prevent global warming natural disasters, and attacked, undermined FEMA, which also led to a brain drain at all of these agencies imperiling our national security. Popok t...

Democracy Forward's Skye Perryman joins Popok to brief our audience on the brand new lawsuit filed on behalf of several cities and public health groups against Trump's Department of Health and Human Services and RFK Jr. to block more than 3 million people from being thrown off the Obamacare health insurance rolls. Democracy Forward: https://democracyforward.org/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mr...

In a new bombshell filing, Abrego Garcia tells a federal judge that he was beaten and tortured in the El Salvador prison the Trump Administration sent him to. Judge Xinis will decide monday whether he stays in Maryland under her jurisdiction. Popok reports on the latest developmentss. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf...

Cities and Public Health Officials have banded together to try to stop Trump from throwing 3 million people off of Obamacare in a new suit just filed in Maryland federal court. Popok reports on Democracy Forward's latest effort to block Trump from harming every day Americans and taking away their dignity. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://...

Popok reports on the stunning decision by the liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to uphold a woman's right to choose, striking down a 176 year old abortion ban on the books of Wisconsin, and dealing a defeat to MAGA for good measure. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bs...

In breaking news, we have our first federal court judge issuing an injunction against the Trump Administration and its Department of Health and Human Services and RFK Jr., blocking from destroying the Department and its agencies through defunding and reorganization. WIll this new injunction survive Trump's challenge based on Friday's Supreme Court decision about nationwide injunctions? Popok expla...

Michael Popok on his new podcast The Intersection is back to brief the audience on breaking legal and political news. Join him as he tackles: 1) how the Trump budget bill can be used offensively to make Trump and MAGA pay for their policies; 2) how federal judges are crafting new injunctions to do an end run around the Supreme Court's decision, including a new injunction to stop the destruction of...

Buried within Trump's budget bill is a little covered provision to undermine people obtaining justice in the court system, by taxing litigation funding companies that support cases against Big Business. Senator Doug Jones joines Popok to brief our audience on what can be done about it. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legala...

Strict Scrutiny host and Constitutional scholar Leah Litman joins Popok to brief our audiences on what just happened over the last 9 months at the Supreme Court, how to interpret Trump's winning streak on emergency cases at the Court; the rise of Ketanji Brown Jackson and the importance of dissents, and so much more at the intersection of law, politics, and the Supreme Court. Subscribe: https://ww...

A federal judge is moving closer to certifying a class of all "babies born since February 2025" to protect their birthright citizenship especially based on the Trump DOJ's new filing in which they basically told the judge they are going to start deporting US baby citizens as early as the end of this month. Popok reports. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Su...

A federal judge has found the "brains" behind the inhumane, cruel and unusual "Alligator Alcatraz" -- Florida's Attorney General -- in contempt for undermining her order stopping the enforcement of criminal immigration statute. Popok from Miami reports on the nearby detention center planned for the swamps of the Florida Everglades and what public interest groups like the ACLU can do about it. Subs...

In breaking news, a federal magistrate judge, who doesn't trust the Trump Administration, is stashing Abrego Garcia in protective federal detention to make sure Trump doesn't deport or remove him out of the country and away from Federal Court jurisdiction before a hearing before the District Court Judge on 7/16, Popok reports on this extraordinary turn of events of a federal judge jailing someone...

Senator Doug Jones joins Popok and Legal AF to brief our audience on the rise of MAGA violent political rhetoric and why Trump's pick for life time appointment to the federal appellate court, his criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove is "disqualified" from being confirmed. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF...

Will Trump be successful in overturning a federal judge's order declaring his attack on law firms to be unconstitutional? Popok looks at the new appeal Trump filed against Perkins Coie and why it is a likely loser. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.s...

Trump is about to devastate rural and Red state communities with more than 11 million people being thrown off insurance rolls, and almost a Trillion Dollars cut from Food Stamps and Medicare programs. Popok examines Trump's strategy of harming his own voters and what we can do about it. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legal...

In breaking news and less than 3 hours after the MAGA Supreme Court 6-3 ruled that no federal judge has the power to almost ever issue nationwide injunctions in the context of birthright citizenship attack by Trump; the plaintiffs counsel filed a new motion for temporary injunction and to certify a class to get the birthright citizenship issue back up to the Supreme Court has fast as humanly possi...

In a special cross over edition of Strict Scrutiny meets Legal AF, constitutional expert Professor Leah Litman joins Popok to break down the repercussions of the latest US Supreme Court MAGA right majority decision destroying the ability of federal judges to reign in Trump's abuse of power, and its impact on future civil rights litigation. Leah's Socials: https://bsky.app/profile/leahlitman.bsky.s...

As a failed diversionary tactic from the fact that Trump can't locate Iran's uranium stockpile, he has now attacked the NYT and CNN and threatened them with what else -- a defamation lawsuit-- because they properly reported "preliminary" assessments in leaked top secret Trump intelligence community documents that said that Iran's nuclear program only set back a few months. Popok keeps his eye on t...