The Intersection with Michael Popok

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 explains it all on his latest hot take.

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.

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.

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 it was stayed, and what happens next as we likely are headed to the Supreme Court again.

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.

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 for bad faith conduct since the Supreme Court ordered his return on April 10th. Popok takes a hard look at the possibility of cell phone turn over on his latest hot take.

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.

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.