The Intersection with Michael Popok

Will NJ follow NY's footsteps who just disbarred Trump's lawyer Ken Chesebro, and ultimately disbar Alina Habba, Trump's political hack now acting interim US Attorney for NJ, for violating half a dozen ethics rules by prosecuting or threatening to prosecute the Democrats in NJ from Congressperson to Mayor to Governor to Attorney General, or chicken out. Popok calls out NJ's Office of Attorney Ethi...

E Jean Carroll, who was sex abused and defamed by Trump 2x, is about to earn her 3rd Victory against him in the appellate courts of New York. Popok breaks down what will be her second victory in less than a month, as a Second Circuit panel during oral argument indicates that it believes that Trump and his former attorney Alina Habba, waived any argument that he has "presidential immunity" to avoid...

Trump just sued Judge Xinis in Maryland, who is the process of finding his administration in contempt, along with all the other judges in the Maryland Federal Court system, arguing that cannot block his attempts to send people out of the country to avoid federal court jurisdiction. Popok explains what happens next and which judge is now able to hear a case when all judges in a district are sued at...

Did Trump really bomb iran to get nominated for the nobel peace prize and get the federal reserve to lower interest rates? Popok examines the new “top secret” leak that Iran’s nuclear program will be rebuilt in 90 days, so that can’t be the reason he hit it. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky...

On the latest episode of The Intersection podcast join Michael Popok as he provides urgent analysis at the intersection of law and politics and, on this special "lying" and "f-bomb" edition, takes on: 1) a new bombshell DOJ insider who just ratted out senior leadership at the DOJ, including someone up for a lifetime federal judge position, for instruction DOJ lawyers to not only not comply with fe...

Harvard may be rethinking its settlement strategy against Trump, as Federal Judge Burrows just handed them another win in a scorching opinion against the Trump Administration, this time quoting George Washington, that if Harvard and the Courts don't protect the First Amendment, we will all be lead "silently like lambs to slaugher." Popok examines Judge Burrows latest Preliminary Injunction, her se...

The ultimate insider at the DOJ just dropped a whistleblower bomb on Trump's DOJ -- alleging in a new whistleblower charge that one of Trump's top DOJ lawyers, Emil Bove, instructed him to lie to federal judges, to tell them to "F' off" rather than comply with their orders, and he catalogues all the times the DOJ lied to Judge Boesberg and Xinis. Popok takes a close look at the new charges coming...

Trump has not only mismanaged the "12 Day War" between Israel and Iran, undermining our national security, but now he has literally lost it (his mind included) in a curse filled rant and "f-bomb" run in front of the press on the way to the NATO summit. Popok explains how this erratic and dangerous behavior -- the opposite of a cool calm and collected Commander in Chief, emboldens our enemies like...

In gut-wrenching but breaking news, the MAGA majority of the Supreme Court, over fierce dissent by Justice Sotomayor, just threw away centuries of due process rights in America, and has empowered the Trump Administration to deport people to third world, inhumane countries. Popok explores Justice Sotomayor's dissent in which she calls out the "abuse of power" by the Majority and the "unclean hands"...

Michael Popok is at the Intersection with a new update from Judge Breyer's court room. 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.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF by MeidasTouch pod...

Trump is getting pressured by the MAGA right including the Proud Boys who are livid with his decision to join the war against Iran, as Iran sends a not so subtle signal that they are ready to bargain, not bomb, their way out of the conflict. Popok looks at new reporting that Iran time of the attack was timed to get Trump's attention, and that they intentionally warned Quatar (and thus the US) befo...

48 hours after dropping bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities and Trump and his Administration still do not know where the Iranian uranium stockpile for nuclear weapons is at present and whether they can get their bomb making program back on line within days. Seems like a pretty big miss for getting the US in a war with Iran if you can' find the Weapons of Mass Destruction nor confirm you destroyed t...

What does it mean that a Federal Judge has rejected the Trump DOJ's evidence and has ordered that there are no grounds to hold Kilmar Abrego-- who is presumed innocent-- in pretrial detention subject to his eventual trial on human smuggling charges? Is he going to go free? Popok puts together a new flurry of filings in the case and explains it all in his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.you...

The non partisan unelected by all powerful Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough just saved the Federal Reserve from Trump's attempts to defund it to punish the Fed Reserve Chairman who won't lower interest rates to give Trump cheap money to fix his failing economic policies. Popok takes a look at what she just ruled, why Senate Leaders for MAGA are abandoning Trump, and why Trump can't do...

Sure the 9th Circuit stayed part of the case that would put Governor Newsom back in power over California, but can't the federal trial judge continue to decide whether Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using US Marines against Americans? That's a very good question, and Popok gets to the bottom of it on his latest hot take! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1...

Trump's non-existent planning for Israel's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, has now put the world and US interests at risk, as international inspectors have LOST TRACK OF Iran's enriched uranium stockpile which is enough to make 10 bombs. Popok rips the cover off this scandal, as inspectors have stopped their 2x a day inspection of the 9 Iranian nuclear facilities in the face of the war, and T...

California's Governor has a huge decision to make today now that he's on the losing end of a 3-0 9th Circuit Panel decision that allows Trump to maintain control over the California National Guard and sets dangerous precedent for Trump taking over other Blue States. Does he ask all 29 judges of the 9th Circuit for a rehearing on the appeal, and/or file an emergency application to the US Supreme Co...

Join Michael Popok on the Intersection podcast, as he takes on: Trump's continued and coordinated arrest of his Democratic Political Rivals, and MAGA's smear campaign against Democrats in the aftermath of the political killings of Democrats; Trump's rejection of his own intelligence community's briefing to start a war between the US and Iran, as a bipartisan bill is proposed to stop it; whether th...

Trump continues to go out of his way to arrest his political rivals, now adding NYC Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander, who joins a growing list of Democrats targeted by Trump. Popok calls out this assault on our democracy in his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky:...

The American Bar Association has sued the ENTIRE Trump Administration in a new federal suit aimed at destroying the "Trump Law Firm Intimidation Policy" to destroy the independence of lawyers in America, and you won't believe who is representing the ABA in court! Popok takes a close look at the new federal court case, as the suit tells the terrible tale of major law firms already giving in and gut...

Trump's vicious assaults on women is not just in his private life as proven in the E Jean Carroll cases, it also animates his policies, as he now goes after Congress's landmark 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and tries to defund all 50 state agencies set up to help female victims of sex and domestic violence assaults. But not if a coalition of 17 state offices devoted to protecting women h...

Popok provides a viewers guide for what to expect during tomorrow's pivotal show down at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals oral argument, as the judges struggle to reign in Trump's assault on California, his political rival Governor Newsom, and States Rights. Popok gives it to you from a perspective of an appellate lawyer who has argued in this very same 9th Circuit court room in San Francisco, set...

A federal judge has denied Trump's latest effort to avoid a major hearing in the California national guard illegal take over case, and denied a motion to stay the trial court case until tomorrow's 9th Circuit oral argument related to the case. Popok explains how the Judge has laid a trap for Trump who walked right into it related to the use of the Marines to make arrests on US soil, and why the Ju...

Not only has Trump lost for good the bro-podcasters like Joe Rogan who are now speaking against Trump's depraved Immigration and family deportation policies, but he's lost the rest of America too, as new polling shows the WORST polls in Trump's entire history are happening right now, as the American Citizen rejects Trump's fascist cos-play, overall mishandling of foreign and domestic affairs, and...

Trump should have canceled his lame fascist cosplay military parade in D.C. As Democratic officials and their families face threats in Minnesota, his brutal regime is using the military to crush First Amendment expression in California. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are rising up against his dictatorship in nationwide No Kings Day marches. Michael Popok breaks down how the people—the most vital...