The Intersection with Michael Popok

We haven't heard the last of Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is just getting warmed up. Now, based on new reporting, he has told close friends that he is itching to speak directly to the American People about Trump's criminality, an opportunity denied to him by the Supreme Court and Judge Cannon, about both the Election Interference case and Mar a Lago Espionage and Obstruction case agains Trump a...

Federal Judge Walker has ordered Trump's novice prosecutor Lindsey Halligan in the NYAG Letitia James prosecution to STOP using a disappearing messaging app to make documents and communications disappear! Popok dissects the new order which also gags the Government from making statements outside the courtroom that would undermine Ms. James right to a fair trial, while allowing her to defend herself...

In breaking news, an Oregon Federal Judge issued a late night emergency Preliminary Injunction against the Trump Administration to stop the deployment of any state national guard troops on the streets of Portland, as she prepares her PERMANENT and FINAL injunction in the next 4 days. Popok explains Judge Immergut's new emergency ruling, why she had to order it when Trump refused her request, and w...

In breaking news, a Boston Federal Judge found away to avoid a bad Supreme Court ruling, by instructing the Trump Administration to come up with a plan by Monday to use Congress' 6 billion in congress contingency funds to avoid 40 million Americans from starving to death by cutting off their SNAP/food stamp payments, as she warns that she may issue an injunction if she doesn't like their response....

In a stunning new motion, Former FBI Director James Comey tells Judge Nachmanoff that it is highly likely that Lindsey Halligan, a prosecutor for all of a month, committed Grand Jury Misconduct, and are demanding that the Court give them the Grand Jury transcripts and audio files. Popok explains that Judge Currie who will make the decision whether Halligan survives as a prosecutor at all under ano...

In a stunning new motion, Former FBI Director James Comey tells Judge Nachmanoff that it is highly likely that Lindsey Halligan, a prosecutor for all of a month, committed Grand Jury Misconduct, and are demanding that the Court give them the Grand Jury transcripts and audio files. Popok explains that Judge Currie who will make the decision whether Halligan survives as a prosecutor at all under ano...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers have pointed out to a Federal Judge in a new filing that the Trump DOJ has produced absolutely 0 evidence to prove to the Court that they are NOT vindictively prosecuting him, no witnesses and no documents, so the Court should just dismiss the criminal indictment immediately. Popok reports on this development and Judge Xinis making a decision soon on whether Garcia g...

The Supreme Court may be signaling that Trump does NOT have the votes he thinks he has to continue to federalize the national guard and violate States Rights, with a new 1 paragraph order that came out late yesterday. Popok explains why Trump may be in trouble as the Supreme Court doesn't have the votes yet to give him more power, and is asking for more briefing on one particular issue. Subscribe:...

A federal judge gags AG Bondi and others from speaking in public to undermine Abrego Garcia’s right to a fair trial. A federal judge takes steps to ensure that Abrego Garcia isn’t retaliated against and sent to Liberia in the next few hours. Lindsey Halligan is up to her eyeballs in hot water, with a new suit brewing about her destruction of public records in a new “Signal-gate” scandal, and a Cli...

Trump filing getting around to filing his appeal brief raising tired old arguments to undo his 34 felony count conviction in New York is not the news; the headline is the ethical dilemma yet another Trump lawyer and firm have with trying to represent both Trump as President and Trump personally, representing him in his appeals, while also serving as secret government lawyers to squeeze fellow law...

Two federal judges are scrambling to rein in the lawless Trump Administration over its mistreatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, issuing sharp orders against the government this week. Michael Popok reports on Judge Crenshaw’s finding that Attorney General Pam Bondi and others made “troubling” comments that jeopardize Garcia’s Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial—and his order to stop it. Meanwhile, J...

The former Jan 6 Committee chair, Bennie Thompson has declared that the Trump's destruction of a portion of the White House is nothing short of the "demolition" of the "heart of Nation" and is demanding answers from the American corporations who donated to a project that in his words has "left a gaping hole in the side of the White House." Popok has a copy of the letter and explains what will happ...

Popok spotted the real reason that Trump is publicly trolling America with the threat that he will not leave and seek a Third Term, and explains how any talk by Trump and MAGA of a third term is nothing more than treason. 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...

The Wall Street Journal has a Direct Message of its own to the Supreme Court: Rule against Trump and take away his tariff powers which he is using as a vindictive tool against his perceived slights and enemies like Canada. Popok explains how Trump punishing Canada for Ontario running a Reagan speech against him, has drawn the ire of Rupert Murdoch who implores the Supreme Court to take away Trump'...

NY AG Leticia James, on the day of her arraignment on a frame job of a mortgage fraud indictment, has already filed multiple motions against Trump, his DOJ and Lindsey Halligan, to gag Halligan, get the indictment dismissed asap, and to put Halligan in a freezer and have the Court declare she has no power to prosecute anyone or anything. Popok reports. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMT...

The civil rights protestor who was violently arrested because he played the Imperial storm trooper theme from Star Wars, has, with the ACLU, filed a new federal suit against the Trump Administration and National Guard for First and Fourth Amendment violations, laying the blueprint for the thousands of similar suits that will flood the courts in response to Trump's unconstitutional attack on freedo...

As over 70 percent of Miami object to a $400 giveaway to Trump of a valuable property owned by the largest public university in America so he can build his "Presidential Library", lawyers have obtained a Temporary Restraining Order to stop the transfer of the 2.63 acre parcel next to The Ellis Island of Miami, the Freedom Tower. Popok is joined by Andres Rivero one of the lead trial lawyers who is...

While America suffering during the MAGA shutdown reaches Day 23, Trump's "main priority" is not paying social security recipients or other hurting Americans, it's BUILDING HIS GOLDEN BALL ROOM, says the White House! The demo of the White House scandal, its 50% cost overrun, and who is paying for influence by donating to the scarring of the People's House, only got worse, with the release of the DO...

The Trump Administration and DOJ faces its FIRST TRIAL against it for vindictive prosecution and now Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers are seeking to drag Trump top officials like #2 in the DOJ Todd Blanche kicking and screaming into the trial scheduled for Nov 4 and 5. Popok takes a look at ALL the civil and criminal cases that Trump is involved with and how judges will permit the parties to obtain...

A Congressional Trust has now gotten into the act and told Trump that the desecration by demo of the White House is illegal, and not authorized, leading the White House to accidentally confess that they need "permits" to build the ballroom and can't just act unilaterally to tear down the People's House. Popok reports on the new scathing letter sent from the National Trust to Trump's White House wh...

A bombshell new lawsuit is filed by Arizona to force MAGA Mike to swear in Rep. Grijalva and get the release of the Epstein Trump Coverup Files to a House vote. Trump tries to steal another $230 million from American Taxpayers seeking to arrange a phony settlement of a phony lawsuit of his with his corrupt DOJ. Trump tries to steal $400 million from a not that wealthy college in Miami to pay for h...

Will 11 Judges that make up the full en banc review panel for the 9th Circuit overturn a 2-1 decision based on a phony record to allow Trump to deploy the National Guard in Portland? Adam Klasfeld of All Rise News joins Popok to discuss the new ruling, the scathing dissent of Judge Graber and what happens next at the 9th Circuit this week. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirm...

If Trump/Lindsey Halligan's indictment of Frmr FBI Dir. James Comey survives his motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution --using Trump's own rage filled attacks on Comey as the basis--it will be nothing short of a miracle. Popok explains why this motion should be the final nail in the coffin for Halligan's short lived prosecutor career. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confi...

A hot 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals bench seems unlikely to let Alina Habba keep her coveted Interim US Attorney of NJ position as they embarrassed her DOJ lawyer and her to her face in court today with withering questions. Popok brings the receipts from today's hearing. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal A...

Trump's DOJ in the Comey prosecution headed by outmatched Lindsey Halligan is already hitting the emergency break filing a motion indicating that they are scared "witless" by Comey's lawyer team and are trying to disqualify them on phony allegations that only backfired and had Comey remind the Judge that Trump is known for doing "unlawful" things. Popok reports. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/...