The Intersection with Michael Popok

California's Governor has a huge decision to make today now that he's on the losing end of a 3-0 9th Circuit Panel decision that allows Trump to maintain control over the California National Guard and sets dangerous precedent for Trump taking over other Blue States. Does he ask all 29 judges of the 9th Circuit for a rehearing on the appeal, and/or file an emergency application to the US Supreme Co...

Join Michael Popok on the Intersection podcast, as he takes on: Trump's continued and coordinated arrest of his Democratic Political Rivals, and MAGA's smear campaign against Democrats in the aftermath of the political killings of Democrats; Trump's rejection of his own intelligence community's briefing to start a war between the US and Iran, as a bipartisan bill is proposed to stop it; whether th...

Trump continues to go out of his way to arrest his political rivals, now adding NYC Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander, who joins a growing list of Democrats targeted by Trump. Popok calls out this assault on our democracy in his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky:...

The American Bar Association has sued the ENTIRE Trump Administration in a new federal suit aimed at destroying the "Trump Law Firm Intimidation Policy" to destroy the independence of lawyers in America, and you won't believe who is representing the ABA in court! Popok takes a close look at the new federal court case, as the suit tells the terrible tale of major law firms already giving in and gut...

Trump's vicious assaults on women is not just in his private life as proven in the E Jean Carroll cases, it also animates his policies, as he now goes after Congress's landmark 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and tries to defund all 50 state agencies set up to help female victims of sex and domestic violence assaults. But not if a coalition of 17 state offices devoted to protecting women h...

Popok provides a viewers guide for what to expect during tomorrow's pivotal show down at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals oral argument, as the judges struggle to reign in Trump's assault on California, his political rival Governor Newsom, and States Rights. Popok gives it to you from a perspective of an appellate lawyer who has argued in this very same 9th Circuit court room in San Francisco, set...

A federal judge has denied Trump's latest effort to avoid a major hearing in the California national guard illegal take over case, and denied a motion to stay the trial court case until tomorrow's 9th Circuit oral argument related to the case. Popok explains how the Judge has laid a trap for Trump who walked right into it related to the use of the Marines to make arrests on US soil, and why the Ju...

Not only has Trump lost for good the bro-podcasters like Joe Rogan who are now speaking against Trump's depraved Immigration and family deportation policies, but he's lost the rest of America too, as new polling shows the WORST polls in Trump's entire history are happening right now, as the American Citizen rejects Trump's fascist cos-play, overall mishandling of foreign and domestic affairs, and...

Trump should have canceled his lame fascist cosplay military parade in D.C. As Democratic officials and their families face threats in Minnesota, his brutal regime is using the military to crush First Amendment expression in California. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are rising up against his dictatorship in nationwide No Kings Day marches. Michael Popok breaks down how the people—the most vital...

Trump has chickened out again in another TACO moment, demonstrating that he will cave to public pressure and protests, this time abruptly changing deportation and arrest policy to exclude hotel, food and farm workers from immigration raids. Popok explains that Trump watches cable news and new that federal agents chasing hard working non criminal immigrants through hotel lobbies, kitchens and facto...

Trump's Marines just detained a civilian who was protesting at a federal building in LA, setting up a showdown in Federal Court with new evidence that Trump has violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the Military against civilians on domestic soil. Popok takes a close look at Judge Breyers order from Friday, and explains how he set a trap that Trump walked right into that was hiding in plain si...

Will Armando Abrego Garcia be detained pretrial for Trump's criminal charges against him or transferred so that he can have his day in court for the due process and civil rights violations the Administration committed against him when they illegally removed him to an El Salvadoran super max prison? Those were the issues in a 6 hour pretrial detention and bail hearing in Tennessee and Popok explain...

Will the US Supreme Court bail out Trump for a civil sex abuse and defamation judgment won by E Jean Carroll now that he has lost 8-2 at the Second Circuit for the second time to reverse the judgment? Popok explains why he doesn't think they will on his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal A...

The second federal judge has now blocked Trump's efforts to destroy Democrats and their votes by imposing illegal and unconstitutional "citizenship ID" requirements. Learn about Judge Casper and why she ruled against raw presidential power to preserve the sacred right to vote. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow...

In a fast breaking story, while a federal judge late last night blocked Trump from taking over the California National Guard giving a win to democracy and Governor Newsom, later at night a 3 judge panel of the 9th Circuit, led by 2 Trump appointees, stayed the order until they get full briefing over the weekend and a hearing is conducted on Tuesday. Popok explains what the lower court ruled, why i...

Maybe if you are the Proud Boys with a manufactured suit to shake down the American people for $100m because you were arrested and convicted of seditious conspiracy before pardoned by Trump, you shouldn't hire a felon and holocaust /election denier to be your lawyer in court! Popok explains what just happened in a Florida federal court. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmati...

The Trump Administration just filed a sloppy brief missing key components (like the case law) and with a weak nonsensical analysis to try to convince a federal judge today not to block them from take over California and its national guard. Popok explains what happens next with today's pivotal hearing. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://subs...

Will a federal court order members of Trump's inner circle to turn over their cell phones for an examination by the Court as a penalty for violating the Court's orders in the Abrego Garcia case pending before Judge Xinis? That's a question posed by a new discovery motion filed by Abrego Garcia's attorneys which seeks to have effectively a default judgment entered against the Trump Administration f...

Three Trump appeal judges just bailed out Trump and blocked Chief Judge Boesberg's order compelling the Trump Administration to notify the court by tomorrow how they plan on giving Due Process rights to 140+ men sent in the middle of the night to El Salvador. Popok reports on the stay order granted and what it means over the next few weeks as the parties' fully brief the issue for the appeal. Subs...

A new order has just been issued with major impacts on California's case against Trump to stop his assault on its sovereignty. Popok explains what happens next now that Judge Breyer has ruled and what will happen this Thursday in court. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/pro...

Speaking of TACO, President Sheinbaum of Mexico just ate Trump's for lunch, as she wins the tariff war yet again, getting Trump to drop the 50% steel tariff, after she calmly explained that Mexico IMPORTS more US steel than it exports, a stubborn little fact Trump failed to grasp. Popok examines why she always beats Trump and always will. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirma...

On the latest edition of The Intersection with Michael Popok a new podcast on the Meidas Touch Network, Popok doesn't hold back as he takes on: 1) the latest developments in Trump's attempted fascist take over of California, including a new emergency order being issued; 2) The Defense Secretary failing basic understanding of what his job is, what Trump's legal justification for commandeering State...

Taking a page out of the attack on Harvard playbook, Trump, sensing a loss in the courts, is now going after California's education funding, threatening to destroy the Union by blocking federal funds. Popok takes a hard look at this losing strategy. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https:/...

California just outfoxed Trump, not only filing the new lawsuit to stop Trump's hostile take over of the State in its tracks in just the right court, but pulling just the right judge for the injunction hearing--the brother of former US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer who just came out of retirement to defend federal judges against Trump's attacks! You can't make this stuff up, and Popok provi...

The DC Bar just gave Pam Bondi and Trump the old 1 finger salute, rejecting in a landslide Bondi's brother's attempt to take over the DC Bar, to render it toothless to oppose Trump and Bondi during the rest of the term just at the moment that Bar Associations need to band together in resistance against our most lawless president. Popok looks at the meaning of the 90% vote tally for DIane Seltzer a...