The Intersection with Michael Popok

A federal judge is moving closer to certifying a class of all "babies born since February 2025" to protect their birthright citizenship especially based on the Trump DOJ's new filing in which they basically told the judge they are going to start deporting US baby citizens as early as the end of this month. Popok reports. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Su...

A federal judge has found the "brains" behind the inhumane, cruel and unusual "Alligator Alcatraz" -- Florida's Attorney General -- in contempt for undermining her order stopping the enforcement of criminal immigration statute. Popok from Miami reports on the nearby detention center planned for the swamps of the Florida Everglades and what public interest groups like the ACLU can do about it. Subs...

In breaking news, a federal magistrate judge, who doesn't trust the Trump Administration, is stashing Abrego Garcia in protective federal detention to make sure Trump doesn't deport or remove him out of the country and away from Federal Court jurisdiction before a hearing before the District Court Judge on 7/16, Popok reports on this extraordinary turn of events of a federal judge jailing someone...

Senator Doug Jones joins Popok and Legal AF to brief our audience on the rise of MAGA violent political rhetoric and why Trump's pick for life time appointment to the federal appellate court, his criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove is "disqualified" from being confirmed. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF...

Will Trump be successful in overturning a federal judge's order declaring his attack on law firms to be unconstitutional? Popok looks at the new appeal Trump filed against Perkins Coie and why it is a likely loser. 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.bsky.s...

Trump is about to devastate rural and Red state communities with more than 11 million people being thrown off insurance rolls, and almost a Trillion Dollars cut from Food Stamps and Medicare programs. Popok examines Trump's strategy of harming his own voters and what we can do about it. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legal...

In breaking news and less than 3 hours after the MAGA Supreme Court 6-3 ruled that no federal judge has the power to almost ever issue nationwide injunctions in the context of birthright citizenship attack by Trump; the plaintiffs counsel filed a new motion for temporary injunction and to certify a class to get the birthright citizenship issue back up to the Supreme Court has fast as humanly possi...

In a special cross over edition of Strict Scrutiny meets Legal AF, constitutional expert Professor Leah Litman joins Popok to break down the repercussions of the latest US Supreme Court MAGA right majority decision destroying the ability of federal judges to reign in Trump's abuse of power, and its impact on future civil rights litigation. Leah's Socials: https://bsky.app/profile/leahlitman.bsky.s...

As a failed diversionary tactic from the fact that Trump can't locate Iran's uranium stockpile, he has now attacked the NYT and CNN and threatened them with what else -- a defamation lawsuit-- because they properly reported "preliminary" assessments in leaked top secret Trump intelligence community documents that said that Iran's nuclear program only set back a few months. Popok keeps his eye on t...

Will NJ follow NY's footsteps who just disbarred Trump's lawyer Ken Chesebro, and ultimately disbar Alina Habba, Trump's political hack now acting interim US Attorney for NJ, for violating half a dozen ethics rules by prosecuting or threatening to prosecute the Democrats in NJ from Congressperson to Mayor to Governor to Attorney General, or chicken out. Popok calls out NJ's Office of Attorney Ethi...

E Jean Carroll, who was sex abused and defamed by Trump 2x, is about to earn her 3rd Victory against him in the appellate courts of New York. Popok breaks down what will be her second victory in less than a month, as a Second Circuit panel during oral argument indicates that it believes that Trump and his former attorney Alina Habba, waived any argument that he has "presidential immunity" to avoid...

Trump just sued Judge Xinis in Maryland, who is the process of finding his administration in contempt, along with all the other judges in the Maryland Federal Court system, arguing that cannot block his attempts to send people out of the country to avoid federal court jurisdiction. Popok explains what happens next and which judge is now able to hear a case when all judges in a district are sued at...

Did Trump really bomb iran to get nominated for the nobel peace prize and get the federal reserve to lower interest rates? Popok examines the new “top secret” leak that Iran’s nuclear program will be rebuilt in 90 days, so that can’t be the reason he hit it. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky...

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...

Harvard may be rethinking its settlement strategy against Trump, as Federal Judge Burrows just handed them another win in a scorching opinion against the Trump Administration, this time quoting George Washington, that if Harvard and the Courts don't protect the First Amendment, we will all be lead "silently like lambs to slaugher." Popok examines Judge Burrows latest Preliminary Injunction, her se...

The ultimate insider at the DOJ just dropped a whistleblower bomb on Trump's DOJ -- alleging in a new whistleblower charge that one of Trump's top DOJ lawyers, Emil Bove, instructed him to lie to federal judges, to tell them to "F' off" rather than comply with their orders, and he catalogues all the times the DOJ lied to Judge Boesberg and Xinis. Popok takes a close look at the new charges coming...

Trump has not only mismanaged the "12 Day War" between Israel and Iran, undermining our national security, but now he has literally lost it (his mind included) in a curse filled rant and "f-bomb" run in front of the press on the way to the NATO summit. Popok explains how this erratic and dangerous behavior -- the opposite of a cool calm and collected Commander in Chief, emboldens our enemies like...

In gut-wrenching but breaking news, the MAGA majority of the Supreme Court, over fierce dissent by Justice Sotomayor, just threw away centuries of due process rights in America, and has empowered the Trump Administration to deport people to third world, inhumane countries. Popok explores Justice Sotomayor's dissent in which she calls out the "abuse of power" by the Majority and the "unclean hands"...

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Trump is getting pressured by the MAGA right including the Proud Boys who are livid with his decision to join the war against Iran, as Iran sends a not so subtle signal that they are ready to bargain, not bomb, their way out of the conflict. Popok looks at new reporting that Iran time of the attack was timed to get Trump's attention, and that they intentionally warned Quatar (and thus the US) befo...

48 hours after dropping bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities and Trump and his Administration still do not know where the Iranian uranium stockpile for nuclear weapons is at present and whether they can get their bomb making program back on line within days. Seems like a pretty big miss for getting the US in a war with Iran if you can' find the Weapons of Mass Destruction nor confirm you destroyed t...

What does it mean that a Federal Judge has rejected the Trump DOJ's evidence and has ordered that there are no grounds to hold Kilmar Abrego-- who is presumed innocent-- in pretrial detention subject to his eventual trial on human smuggling charges? Is he going to go free? Popok puts together a new flurry of filings in the case and explains it all in his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.you...

The non partisan unelected by all powerful Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough just saved the Federal Reserve from Trump's attempts to defund it to punish the Fed Reserve Chairman who won't lower interest rates to give Trump cheap money to fix his failing economic policies. Popok takes a look at what she just ruled, why Senate Leaders for MAGA are abandoning Trump, and why Trump can't do...

Sure the 9th Circuit stayed part of the case that would put Governor Newsom back in power over California, but can't the federal trial judge continue to decide whether Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using US Marines against Americans? That's a very good question, and Popok gets to the bottom of it on his latest hot take! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1...

Trump's non-existent planning for Israel's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, has now put the world and US interests at risk, as international inspectors have LOST TRACK OF Iran's enriched uranium stockpile which is enough to make 10 bombs. Popok rips the cover off this scandal, as inspectors have stopped their 2x a day inspection of the 9 Iranian nuclear facilities in the face of the war, and T...