The Intersection with Michael Popok

World Leaders have united...against America and Trump on the Global Trade stage, as the European Union declares the end to "transatlantic trade" as we know it because of Trump's 30% tariff.  Popok looks at how waiting for Trump to "fold" like a TACO is no longer an option, as he has raised tariff rates already from 2% to 16% the highest since 1910, and world leaders are defiantly firing back...and...

MAGA and its "America First" sub-base, is being torn apart by Trump's Epstein Coverup, as they turn to their true leader Tucker Carlson, and start heading for the exits as Trump tries to send "his" MAGA "boys and gals" to their rooms, for having the brass ones to challenge the Fearless Leader.  Popok takes a close look at 2 telling events this weekend: Trump getting BOOED at a major sporting event...

Would Trump try to give Alina Habba and other MAGA loyalists coveted Appellate Court life time appointments, and how can we stop it. Former Senator Doug Jones joins Popok to brief our audience and call out the corruption and provide a roadmap to beat Trump. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky:...

The American Economy is under attack once again-- from Trump, as he hits the panic button again regarding tariffs frustrated that our leading trading partners won't cut a deal with his erratic Administration. Popok puts his Wall Street hat on again, to talk about how Trump is poisoning not jut the world economy but our own, and what we can do about it in the short term. Subscribe: https://www.yout...

Trump's DOJ is abusing a federal judge again, refusing her order to put a witness with knowledge under oath at a hearing to tell her what the Government plans to do with Abrego Garcia when may be released next week from a federal detention center in Tennessee. Popok explains how Judge Xinis is likely to use this contempt conduct to order that Abrego Garcia be brought back to Maryland under her wat...

Trump's top DOJ official and former criminal defense lawyer may have just lied under oath in his Senate Judiciary Hearing to get a lifetime judge position, and a whistleblower has the text messages to prove it. Popok reports on the new bombshell disclosures by former DOJ senior litigation counsel Erez Reuveni against Emil Bove and Pam Bondi. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confi...

The babies may save democracy and our Constitution after all! A federal judge just certified a class of babies to take on Trump's deranged Birthright Citizenship order and used that baby-class to issue a injunction to block its enforcement on 7/27 subject to appeal, Popok reports. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Fol...

Either Trump's DOJ is lying to a federal judge, or the El Salvadoran government is lying to the UN, but they both be telling the truth about which country controls the men removed to El Salvador's notorious CECOT supermax killer prison, with the DOJ representing they have NO control, and El Salvador reporting that only the US HAS control. A Trump appointed Judge (Gallagher) in Maryland has put an...

Trump's DOJ is now filing laugh out loud ridiculous legal filings to support their loser of an argument that Trump can rip away US babies' citizenship. Popok reports on the lame brain filing that doesn't seem to understand the basics of the class action law they are arguing against, which should lead Judge Boardman to quickly be the first to certify a nationwide class and block Trump's executive o...

Trump is about to spy on his own spy agencies, with Tulsi Gabbard setting up the "Directors Initiative Group" (DIG) to create a giant database of 18 intelligence agencies emails and texts for her to run an AI program to try to find disloyal staffers. What could possibly go wrong with creating a giant database of classified and unclassified information for our enemies to hack? Popok discusses what...

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...

Big Beautiful Bill meet Judge Talwani's Big Beautiful Temporary Restraining Order in favor of protecting Planned Parenthood from destruction by the Trump Administration. Popok explains why the Supreme Court's recent rulings in the last 10 days against Planned Parenthood and against federal judges using nationwide injunctions are irrelevant to the new case and won't stand in the way of the Court ma...

A pissed-off Judge Xinis closely questioned and then scolded new Trump DOJ lawyers who flipped-flopped for the 4th time in the case and now said that they would effectively abandon the manufactured criminal case against Abrego Garcia and just remove him in 2 weeks to a third country, not named El Salvador. Popok reports on the judge blurting out that getting answers that aren't "illogical" from th...

The worm has finally turned, as the Hispanic Vote comes crashing down around Trump's feet, a vote he desperately needs to win support at the midterms. Popok looks at the mass defection away from Trump of Hispanic Independent, Woman, GenZ, and even Biden Voters who switched to Trump, as new polling says Trump's disastrous Economic and Deportation Policies will likely be his ruin. Learn more about y...

Now that the smoke has cleared, there is a federal injunction out of Massachusetts in favor of 28 states against Trump's deranged anti-birthright citizenship executive order that remains standing in the smoldering ashes of the recent Supreme Court decision on nationwide injunctions. Popok sees Judge Sorokin's injunction protecting birthright citizenship in 28 states as the blueprint for how federa...

Trump is f'n with the US Economy again, and his mental slide makes it so he can't even get basic facts right about his own Tariff deadlines, a fact so obvious that his own commerce secretary had to bail him out and cut him off to answer a reporter's question. Popok looks at the fact that the Administration has signed a total of 2 deals, not the more than 90 promised, and even one of those with Chi...

The blood of those who have tragically died in the Texas "Guadalupe River" flood disaster, including a dozen little girls, is on the Trump Administration who callously cut funding to the National Weather Service, to research and prevent global warming natural disasters, and attacked, undermined FEMA, which also led to a brain drain at all of these agencies imperiling our national security. Popok t...

Democracy Forward's Skye Perryman joins Popok to brief our audience on the brand new lawsuit filed on behalf of several cities and public health groups against Trump's Department of Health and Human Services and RFK Jr. to block more than 3 million people from being thrown off the Obamacare health insurance rolls. Democracy Forward: https://democracyforward.org/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mr...

In a new bombshell filing, Abrego Garcia tells a federal judge that he was beaten and tortured in the El Salvador prison the Trump Administration sent him to. Judge Xinis will decide monday whether he stays in Maryland under her jurisdiction. Popok reports on the latest developmentss. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf...

Cities and Public Health Officials have banded together to try to stop Trump from throwing 3 million people off of Obamacare in a new suit just filed in Maryland federal court. Popok reports on Democracy Forward's latest effort to block Trump from harming every day Americans and taking away their dignity. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://...

Popok reports on the stunning decision by the liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to uphold a woman's right to choose, striking down a 176 year old abortion ban on the books of Wisconsin, and dealing a defeat to MAGA for good measure. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bs...

In breaking news, we have our first federal court judge issuing an injunction against the Trump Administration and its Department of Health and Human Services and RFK Jr., blocking from destroying the Department and its agencies through defunding and reorganization. WIll this new injunction survive Trump's challenge based on Friday's Supreme Court decision about nationwide injunctions? Popok expla...

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...

Buried within Trump's budget bill is a little covered provision to undermine people obtaining justice in the court system, by taxing litigation funding companies that support cases against Big Business. Senator Doug Jones joines Popok to brief our audience on what can be done about it. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legala...

Strict Scrutiny host and Constitutional scholar Leah Litman joins Popok to brief our audiences on what just happened over the last 9 months at the Supreme Court, how to interpret Trump's winning streak on emergency cases at the Court; the rise of Ketanji Brown Jackson and the importance of dissents, and so much more at the intersection of law, politics, and the Supreme Court. Subscribe: https://ww...