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The firing of Lindsey Halligan is a symptom of a greater disease effecting the DOJ and the Trump Administration. The restart of the criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump Administration is another symptom of the same disease. The new lawsuit to stop an illegal criminal investigation of a member of Congress is an antidote to that disease. A decision has been made about Trump’s Georgia crim...

The American Revolution (the documentary) is on Popok’s mind, along with “Common Sense” as he uses 4 new law and politics developments to explain how we are in our “King George” moment and patriots must respond. On the Intersection Podcast, Popok dives deep into what the firing of Lindsey Halligan by a Federal Judge means and what will happen in the next 72 hours that should set your hair on fire....

Trump doesn’t just have an Epstein child sex trafficking problem; he has a problem in that he was friends with 3 different people accused, indicted, or convicted of preying on and sexually abusing girls: Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the late John Casablancas.  As Maxwell demands a second immunity agreement because she likely knows she committed perjury when she testified to Trump’s DOJ, Popok e...

Looks like Trump AG Pam Bondi is responsible for having both the Former FBI Director James Comey and current NY AG Tish James indictments tossed today by a federal judge, along with Lindsey Halligan as interim US Attorney in Virginia. Michael Popok digs deep into Judge Currie’s earth-shattering twin rulings today, in which she rejects Bondi’s appointment of Halligan as illegal, and scoffs at Bondi...

A Federal Judge called DOJ witnesses "word salad testimony" and "zeros" as she decides whether to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody and send him to Costa Rica (or give him amnesty) instead of sending him 3000 miles away to Liberia. Michael Popok dissects the evidentiary hearing before Judge Xinis and why she may release Garcia as a remedy to punish the Trump Administration for abuse of pow...

The public demand for an unhinged Trump to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment reaches a fevered pitch as Trump calls for the assassination of Democratic elected officials who served in the armed forces. The DOJ falls flat on its face in the Comey and James indictments as they leave Lindsey Halligan twisting in the wind. Pam Bondi puts into place a path to block the Epstein Files relea...

In breaking news, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has moved to revive her state criminal case against 18 Trump allies — including current Homeland Security official Christina Bobb and coup-plotting attorneys Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, and Boris Epshteyn. Michael Popok reports and interviews AG Mayes on the explosive developments. For 40% off your order, head to https://Udacity....

The DOJ and Lindsey Halligan just found a new way to destroy their criminal case against Former FBI Dir. James Comey— by filing 7 minutes of a grand jury transcript that not only proves they lied to another federal judge last week in a sworn filing, but also constitutes a “waiver” of any argument they had against having the entirety of the grand jury transcript turned over asap to the defense. Mic...

Karen Friedman Agnifilo and guest host Lisa Graves host the top-ranked law and politics podcast Legal AF and break down this week’s most explosive legal and political developments at the intersection of law and democracy. From dissecting Trump’s sudden flip on releasing the Epstein files, to the bills inevitable passage, KFA and Lisa explain how this is all smoke and mirrors as Trump and his lacke...

In breaking news, a federal judge questioned whether Trump’s hand picked prosecutor Lindsey Halligan is a “puppet,” cross examines her and gets her to admit that the full grand jury NEVER saw the Comey indictment that was presented to the Court, and forces another novice prosecutor to admit that there is a secret memo that helps the defense that his bosses in Washington (ie. Todd Blanche and Pam B...

In an error filled “emergency filing” the Trump DOJ seeks to block the release of secret grand jury materials in the prosecution of Former FBI Director James Comey case, the files that according to one judge, demonstrate that Lindsey Halligan committed at least 2 cardinal violations of the US Constitution in her interactions with the Grand Jury, and findings that she likely misled or lied to anoth...

A federal magistrate judge just effectively called AG Pam Bondi and novice US Attorney Lindsey Halligan liars, suggesting that they either misled Judge Currie, who is deciding whether to fire Halligan for being illegally appointed, or they lied to him in their filings.  Michael Popok unpacks the last-minute filing last week by Bondi/Halligan and how Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick used it against the...

The Epstein scandal and Trump’s involvement with the child sex predator has roared back to life, as Attorney General Pam Bondi clumsily tries to rescue Trump but only makes matters worse. Novice U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan turns to Bondi for a lifeline but is thrown an anvil instead, as her stint as a federal prosecutor may be coming to an end. MAGA senators award themselves a $500,000-a-piece...

Now we know why Trump is working overtime since the reopening of the Government to block the release of the Epstein child sex trafficking files. Never-before-seen secret emails of Epstein, now released by the House, show the extent to which Epstein had damaging information about Trump’s involvement that he was willing to use to extort Trump. Michael Popok examines the new emails, along with some n...

No one in the Trump DOJ wants to tangle with the Comey family today, and that includes his daughter former career federal prosecutor and Ghislaine Maxwell prosecutor Maureen Comey, as a Federal Judge is pissed that no one from the DOJ has appeared in the case pending for almost 2 months! Michael Popok explains why no prosecutor or office wants to oppose Maureen, and how this is linked to the reign...

In breaking news, a Federal judge seems poised to disqualify Trump’s hand-picked novice prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, as having been illegally appointed, calling the indictments of NYAG Tish James and Former FBI Dir. James Comey into question as well. Michael Popok explains how Judge Currie was not happy that 2 hours of Grand Jury transcripts are missing and cornered the Trump team several times,...

Depravity, inhumanity, and immorality, all on full display this week with Trump and his Administration, as he  arm twists and abuses female MAGA House members to bury the Epstein Files including the new revelations  about his spending time at Epstein’s house with “girls;” asks Courts to let him starve hungry Americans and beat First Amendment  Protestors;  and forces prosecutors to go after his po...

Trump has a new plot afoot to jail his political enemies like President Barak Obama and, based on new reporting, involves Judge Aileen Cannon and his hand picked US Attorney in Miami Jason Reding-Quinones, as career prosecutors quit rather than investigating in bad faith some imaginary “grand conspiracy” led by Trump and his DOJ, and right wing social media types like Mike Davis. Learn more about...

In breaking news, new Epstein and Maxwell emails have been released by the Bi Partisan House Oversight Committee that spell disaster for Trump, as they reveal that even Epstein thought Trump had been involved with “girls” at his home, a fact confirmed by Maxwell in an email, providing that Maxwell lied in her interview with Trump’s DOJ to try to get a pardon. Michael Popok examines the new emails...

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...

The Trump Administration isn’t just content with starving Americans they now want an appeals court to give them permission to beat them too, looking for an order to let Trump’s shock forces in Chicago to hit peaceful first amendment protestors including members of the press, clergy, veterans and others with their cars, fire rubber bullets and tear gas at them, tackle them and beat them. Michael Po...

Trump figured out that he’s been had at the US Supreme Court and is likely to lose all of his Tariffs, and spent the wee hours of the morning throwing his own DOJ and his Solicitor General John Sauer under the bus and blaming them for the likely incoming loss. Michael Popok explains that the 12:37 am posting of his “truth” about the case is a confession that he is likely to lose as he scrambles to...

In breaking news, there are not 4 votes on the US Supreme Court to overturn the Constitutional right for people to marry who they choose and same sex marriage, as the Supreme Court refuses to hear on appeal the case of Kim Davis, the clerk who wouldn’t issue marriage licenses to same sex couples on religious grounds. Michael Popok explains how Davis, the stalking horse of the MAGA right-wing relig...

Democrats continue to fight in several courts to ensure that 1 in 8 Americans below the poverty line including 16 million children aren’t starved to death by Trump and MAGA, even as MAGA continues to make them political hostages while negotiating for the government to be reopened. Michael Popok dissects the masterful order of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that set in motion in the last few hours,...

Election night was not the only wipeout of Trump and MAGA, as his DOJ suffered an epic losing streak just this week alone of 8 different losses in 7 different courts.  Michael Popok breaks down the emergency restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, permanent injunctions, jury verdicts, and compel orders issued from Sea to Shining Sea, or at least from Rhode Island to Oregon, with stops in Virg...