The Intersection with Michael Popok

The Intersection Podcast, hosted by Michael Popok, curates the top breaking events at the intersection of law and politics from the Supreme Court, DC Court of Appeals, Mississippi, Virginia and Florida. Hims: Visit https://hims.com/TRUTH to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when...

Popok reports on Trump and his DOJ having the hair brained idea that Federal Judges would allow them to subpoena REPORTERS and bring them in front of a grand jury in violation of the First Amendment, as Trump tries to find the leaks in his Administration. Visit https://hims.com/TRUTH to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmati...

Popok reports on breaking news that American Oversight, the group that brought down Matt Gaetz nomination is now after Todd Blanche with a new suit seeking ALL emails and communications involving Blanche and Epstein; and Blanche and Judge Cannon of Mar a Lago infamy! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube...

Popok reports on an 11 appellate judge panel ruling, based in part on arguments raised by 174 Former Judges, to overturn a lower appeals panel decision that blocked Chief Judge Boasberg's criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump Administration, its DOJ and its Homeland Security Department. For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (386) 390-0271 and speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, o...

Popok reports on how the Trump DOJ and Todd Blanche blew it by filing a "notice of filing" that the Virginia Fed Judge did not ask for in her Jan 6 "Weaponization Fund" case, that as the effect of ADMITTING the fraud on the court in a case pending in Miami Federal Court! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.you...

In breaking news 35 former federal judges, getting in the last word, have informed Judge Williams that there is already "clear and convincing evidence' of fraud, and that recent actions by Todd Blanche only reinforce that the original lawsuit of Trump v. IRS that led to the Slush Fund, is fraudulent with Trump controlling all sides of the lawsuit.  Popok reports and puts in context of another move...

In breaking news, Todd Blanche the embattled AG nominee for Trump, has just filed a paper to tell Senior Judge Brinkema presiding over the Anti Weaponization Fund case, that he will NOT (nor will anyone else she commanded) provide any SWORN under PENALTY OF PERJURY testimony to her to confirm that the Slush Fund is really dead.  Popok explains that the Judge's INDEFINITE BLOCK of the Fund lives on...

In breaking news,  Mass. Fed. Judge Kelly has refused to block her own order commanding the Trump Administration in 3 weeks time to put history BACK in place in 60 national parks, to stop Trump writing out of history slavery and how we treated the Native American peoples. Popok explains that even thought the appellate Third Circuit in Philadelphia just ruled that Trump could rip down panels memori...

The DOJ and Todd Blanche just got caught trying to pay off criminal defendants wrongly indicted for protesting in Chicago, by agreeing to pay all their attorneys fees if they just go away and don't examine whether a conspiracy occurred among the White House, Todd Blanche and local prosecutors to indict them in the first place.  Popok reports on the defendants new motion that tells Judge Perry they...

Popok examines a new motion filed by the Broadview 6 counsel demanding that Judge Perry appoint a special counsel to investigate and prosecute the Chicago US Attorneys' Office AND possibly Todd Blanche for prosecutorial misconduct, as Judge Coleman in the same courthouse considers sanctioning the Government and doing the same, as Judge Williams in Miami considers finding that Blanche and others de...

Popok reports on Trump, so out of sorts at the G7 Summit, that even his enemies are wondering whether he is sick, had to learn that his own Fed Reserve Chair, handpicked to cut interest rates to fix Trump's failed economy, has refused to cut rates at his first meeting, sending the Stock market into a tailspin. Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free tr...

Epstein Survivors are livid over Todd Blanche's nomination as AG considering his "leadership" role in the coverup, and have met with House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer to lay out the case against Blanche, the DOJ and FBI, and the 14 men identified in the files that need to be investigated.  Popok, in an interview with a Survivor Leader Dani Benski who was in the private meeting, reports t...

With 2 huge wins for the rule of law in the last week, Democracy Forward continues a long string of losses for Trump on some of his most depraved and un-american policies, including funding insurrectionists who attacked law enforcement, and rewriting slavery and mistreatment of native americans out of history.  Popok is joined by Democracy Forward's leader Skye Perryman to break down Judge Brinkem...

Popok reports on the Secret Service being furious that FBI Dir. Kash Patel posted a "stolen valor" social media post BEFORE all UFC250 drone plot assailants had been captured and before the indictment unsealed, undermining the investigation and putting law enforcement in harm's way. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: htt...

Popok hosts the award-winning Intersection Podcast, breaking down the NYT leak and Trump mole hunt, an update to the Trump slush fund, Kash Patel in hot water once again, Trump’s DOJ going after Gov. Newsom. Popok is also joined by special guest Dani Bensky, Epstein survivor and a leader of the survivor movement on Epstein updates. All this and more at the intersection of law and politics. Shopify...

Popok reports on Trump's lying to the American People about the true cost of the vanity project Ballroom, which now stands at $600m with half paid by the taxpayers, up from 6 months ago when it was $200m and paid by private donors.  And as it balloons to $1 billion or more an appellate court is considering whether to shut down the Ballroom altogether! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN...

The Trump Administration is reportedly in "freak out" mode about the New York Times "Inside the White House Freak Over the Epstein Files" article and its implication that someone among the 11 senior officials in the room (and some that phoned it in literally), may have RECORDED the conversation and leaked the transcript and recording to the New York Times!  Popok updates this fast moving story. Fo...

Popok reports on Judge Coleman, a Chicago Federal Judge, setting an emergency hearing this week to examine whether the DOJ's US Attorney in Chicago, Andrew Boutrous committed ethical violations that warrant sanctions agains the office, as a follow up to her calling the DOJ dismissing an indictment against 2 criminal defendants in a $800 million fraud ring so suspicious that it has opened "Pandora'...

On every personal vanity project Trump has launched, from the Ballroom, to his face on money, to the Arch, to the Slush Fund, and the Iran War, the American People have risen up in new polling and have joined Robert DeNiro's birthday message to Trump: Shut the "Legal AF" UP!  Popok takes a close look at the polls showing that Trump and MAGA have "lost" America and its voters, as his enablers and h...

Popok brings to light a little reported lawsuit against Trump's former private criminal lawyer and AG Nominee Todd Blanche, where he is accused of FORGERY, overbilling clients, and failing to mount a proper criminal defense, for 2 clients' convicted of 16 counts of mail and wire fraud. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community:...

Popok reports on the ghost of Pam Bondi continue to scar the proud reputation of the US Attorney Office's around the the US, as the once proud Chicago US Attorney's Office is called out by Federal Judges and 111 former office prosecutors, as being corrupt and unethical, including willing to dismiss indictments with prejudice  as directed by the White House in Billion Dollar medical insurance fraud...

Popok ties together Trump's phony announcement that he has a "Deal" with Iran on his birthday -- when he doesn't; the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turning "Iranian Flag Green" in honor of the "Deal;" Americans chanting "Free the Tarp" that's blocking the court ordered forced removal of  Trump's name from the Kennedy Center; as fighters and viewers abandon the UFC fight in his honor at the Whit...

Popok briefs on breaking news of the DC Appeals Court 3 judge panel refusing to stop Trump’s name coming off the Kennedy Center. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal A...

Popok reports on Senior Judge Brinkema's scathing order BLOCKING the Trump "slush fund" unless  AG Blanche and Treasury Sec Bessent file a sworn affidavit that they have really killed the fund and won't use it to pay out any money. He also ties it together with Miami Fed. Judge Williams next move to possibly declare the Fund a product of fraud on the Court! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Lega...

In breaking news, Trump' s lawyers have intentionally refused to respond to Federal Judge William's order that they answer to the charges of "fraud on the court" and "deception" on the Court in their settlement of the Trump v. IRS case that led to the creation of the "anti weaponization fund" and settlement documents granting Trump and his family a "super pardon."  Popok reviews the filing and rep...