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E Jean Carroll, who holds almost $100 million in judgments against Trump for being sexually abused and constantly defamed by him, just won again in a pivotal appeals case. Ms. Carroll, with her intellectual fortitude and strength of character, shows us how to beat Trump like a bad habit, as she puts her cases on the doorstep of the US Supreme Court. Check out the LAF video with E Jean Carroll here...

Dina Doll and Karen Friedman Agnifilo anchor the top-ranked law and politics podcast Legal AF, and break down this week’s biggest legal and political bombshells at the intersection of law and democracy, including: 1) Trump’s ICE show-of-force stunt in Los Angeles and how Mayor Karen Bass is preparing a potential lawsuit that could challenge the legality of the operation; 2) the Supreme Court quiet...

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...

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok anchor the top-ranked law and politics podcast Legal AF, and cover this week's most important breaking news as they take on: 1) the importance of the Abrego Garcia case and the attempts by a Tennessee and Maryland federal judges to thwart Trump's abuse of power; 2) the Supreme Court flipping the script on due process rights of those facing deportation or removal; 3)...

On the top ranked Legal AF podcast, Michael Popok is joined with guest anchor, attorney and activist Rachel Cohen, sitting in for KFA, who is also joining the Legal AF YouTube Channel as a regular contributor. Popok and Rachel take on: the different forms that defiance against this Administration can take including taking personal responsibility to actively participate in our participatory democra...

In stunning fashion, the 4-3 liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court just struck down a 176-year-old ban on abortion on the state books, pushed by MAGA to deny a woman her reproductive freedom, and declared that abortion is legal in Wisconsin and protected by more modern state statutes. Michael Popok explains how elected State Supreme Courts are on the front line to protect democracy, and...

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...

Almost missing the deadline, the Trump Administration has gotten around to appealing Judge Howell’s permanent injunction to stop Trump’s abuse of law firms — this time Perkins Code — and to block Trump from declaring them a “national security threat” as payback for some of their lawyers being involved in the Mueller investigation. Michael Popok looks at the new notice of appeal and lays out what h...

Forget the “academic” or the “hypothetical” — groups and lawyers that oppose Trump’s unconstitutional attack on Birthright Citizenship live in the real world, and in real time within hours of the Supreme Court’s Friday’s ruling forcing them to refile their cases as class actions seeking emergency injunctions, refiled their cases in Maryland first and then New Hampshire. But now that there are 2 al...

Moving at almost the speed of light and following Justice Sotomayor’s “direction”, public interest groups litigating to protect Birthright Citizenship have just hours after the Supreme Court ruled against them, filed a new motion for class action certification and for temporary injunction with a Maryland federal judge. Michael Popok explains how this is exactly what Justice Sotomayor called for in...

In breaking news, Abrego Garcia has asked for and received an order that keeps him longer in federal detention to protect him from the Trump Administration deporting or removing him in the middle of the night away from Federal Court jurisdiction. The irony was not lost on Magistrate Judge Holmes who has ordered that Abrego Garcia remain in protective custody until his July 16th hearing before Judg...

E Jean Carroll is about to beat Trump for the third time in front of the Second Circuit Appeal, having lost last week on his bid to have the “United States of America” substitute in to avoid paying her the $83.5 million jury verdict judgement for sexually abusing and defaming her, and now about to lose in front of of the same judges on his argument that he has “presidential immunity” to defame her...

What do Trump lawyers Alina Habba and Ken Chesebro have in common? No, not that, but now one has been disbarred from practicing law in NY while the other has received a stinging new bar complaint seeking her disbarment in NJ. Michael Popok outlines the case against Trump’s political hack turned US Attorney for NJ (Habba) as outlined in the new bar grievance against her, and explains why Chesebro,...

Trump, to try to distract from the fact that he has lost track of Iran’s uranium stockpile altogether, and failed to take out a 4th hardened mountain facility, is threatening to sue CNN and the New York Times for “defamation.” Michael Popok takes a look at the new demand letter, the lawyer behind it, and both media outlets telling Trump and his lawyers to pound sand as they stand by their reportin...

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok host the top rated Legal AF podcast and take on: 1) Governor Newsom's $787 million dollar defamation suit against Fox; 2) the aftermath and next steps after the Supreme Court told federal courts they have no power to issue nationwide injunctions in most cases, including about birthright citizenship; 3) the Supreme Court's siding with religious groups over the First A...

Moving at almost the speed of light and following Justice Sotomayor’s “direction”, public interest groups litigating to protect Birthright Citizenship have just hours after the Supreme Court ruled against them, filed a new motion for class action certification and for temporary injunction with a Maryland federal judge. Michael Popok explains how this is exactly what Justice Sotomayor called for in...

E Jean Carroll is about to beat Trump for the third time in front of the Second Circuit Appeal, having lost last week on his bid to have the “United States of America” substitute in to avoid paying her the $83.5 million jury verdict judgement for sexually abusing and defaming her, and now about to lose in front of of the same judges on his argument that he has “presidential immunity” to defame her...

In breaking news, the MAGA majority of the Supreme Court led by Amy Coney Barrett in the Birthright Citizenship/14th Amendment case,  just destroyed 100 years of precedent that allowed Federal trial court judges to issue nationwide injunctions to address the nationwide harm caused by a President’s abuse of power, declaring that only the Supreme Court can fashion nationwide relief. Michael Popok ex...

The Trump Administration, continuing its assault on the Rule of Law, has just sued each and every of the 16 judges in the Maryland federal court system along with the Clerk, because the Chief Judge there has issued an administrate order providing that for 48 hours, Trump cannot send people outside of the country to avoid federal jurisdiction, until a federal judge has reviewed the habeas corpus pe...

Did Justice Sotomayor just outfox the Trump DOJ by sending out an “invitation” to a Massachusetts federal judge to find a way to circumvent a recent Supreme Court ruling to make sure that deportees obtain due process before being sent to countries like South Sudan or Libya? Michael Popok takes a close look at Sotomayor’s dissent, the next steps taken by Judge Murphy to tell the Trump Administratio...

Michael Popok is back with Karen Friedman Agnifilo with the Legal AF podcast, the #1 law and politics podcast on this week's YouTube rankings, and they take on: 1) a judge finding that the Trump Administration's "evidence" did not support holding Kilmar Abrego in jail nor prove that he was in the MS13 gang; 2) Trump suing all the federal district judges in Maryland in a blatant example of forum sh...

According to shocking new details from the ultimate DOJ insider, Trump’s candidate for a lifetime federal appeals judge position —Emil Bove— instructed senior DOJ lawyers to lie to federal judges, not comply with their orders and tell them to “F Off”. michael popok reports on the new whistleblower letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee by Erez Reuveni who was fired by Trump’s DOJ for tellin...

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...

In a 6-3 decision that Justice Sotomayor calls an “abuse of power” by the Supreme Court which turns the nature of Due Process on its head, and rewards the Trump Administration’s flagrant violation of federal court orders, the Supreme Court just ruled that human beings without due process or even limited notice can be deported to dangerous countries they are not even from, like South Sudan and Liby...

The Federal Reserve and its Chairman Jay Powell, the only thing standing between the American People and economic ruin under the disastrous Trump presidency, has refused to obey Trump and ignore Trump’s policies, which have sent the economy into a tailspin marked by high inflation, low job creation, and almost non-existent economic growth. The Fed just decided to ignore Trump and not cut interest...