The Intersection with Michael Popok

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 making sure PP is not put out of business.

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 the DOJ is like "stapling jello to the ceiling" as she denied 2 Trump motions to dismiss the case, and is strongly considering ordering that Abrego Garcia be brought under her protection in Maryland in order to comply with the Supreme Court's orders in the case.

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.

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 federal judges can beat Trump and the Supreme Court at its own game.

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 China looks imaginary as the world ignores Trump and his Tariff threats once again.

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 takes a hard look at who is to blame for this horrific tragedy and sees it as a natural extension of Trump's depraved policies.

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.

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.

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.

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.