The Intersection with Michael Popok

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...

Popok provides all the legal analysis, including Supreme Court precedent under the 10th Amendment, which will be the foundation of California's new suit against Trump to get the National Guard, Marines, and other federal officials OUT of California. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https:/...

A phony indictment? A corrupt "extradition" order to El Salvador? A prosecutor who won't abide by corruption and resigns? All of this and so much more when Popok updates you on Armando Abrego Garcia's arraignment and developments in the Tennessee Federal criminal case, and explains why none of this gets the Trump Administration out of hot water with Judge Xinis in Maryland. Subscribe: https://www....

Trump, who once said about the BLM protests, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" as a chilling show of excessive force against protestors, has just declared about the protests in California, "when the spitting starts, the hitting starts" to blow a dog whistle to law enforcement and the National Guard to use brutality to crush dissent, right ouf of the fascist playbook. Popok calls out T...

The very fervent Q-Anon, MAGA conspiracy base that helped Trump win election, has now picked up torches and pitchforks against his key leadership of AG Pam Bondi and the FBI's leadership of Kash Patel and former bro-podcaster Dan Bongino, because they are not "proving" all of their conspiracy theories "fast enough" like Jeffrey Epstein being "murdered," Hunter Biden dropping off "coke" at the Whit...

Trump has taken to network news to warn Musk not to support Democrats in the midterms or face “severe consequences.” What does this threat reveal about the bizarre workings of Donald Trump’s mind? And what will Musk’s inevitable rejection of the threat—and his decision to side with Democrats—mean for Trump’s court cases and legacy? Popok takes a hard look. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Legal...

Drug use, shoving matches, fisticuffs, black eyes, and child sex abuse? A new HBO mini series? No, the Trump Administration starring Musk and Trump! Popok reports on the new reporting in their feud, which threatens Trump's legacy, why it should be a surprise, and outs a Trump insider's insider who is married to a Musk loyalist, as he examines what the fighting means in the courtrooms about DOGE. S...

The right wing of the Supreme Court in back to back decisions issued Friday have sided with the Trump Administration and its DOGE, first allowing it to have immediate access to all private and sensitive Social Security Records, and then casting doubt on whether it is a federal agency at all to be required to respond to Freedom of Information Act public record requests. Popok distills what these ca...

The new filing by the Trump Administration with Judge Xinis overseeing the Abrego Garcia return and due process case, just made things worse for the DOJ and Trump, by informing the Judge that they returned Abrego Garcia 2 months late, as it basically admitted that they could have returned Abrego Garcia months ago if they wanted to. Popok explains how these new filings will be used against the Admi...

The US Attorney General Pam Bondi just handed Judge Xinis yet another reason to continue to find the Trump Administration and DOJ in contempt, with her press conference announcing that the Trump Administration knew how to return Armando Garcia from El Salvador after all over the last 60 days,. Popok takes a close look at the threadbare criminal indictment in Tennessee used by Trump to cover his la...