Lisa Rubin

1 week ago | msnbc.com | Lisa Rubin

If you're a diligent observer of federal challenges to Trump administration policies, you know the administration is losing more than it's winning. You might have also concluded that Memorial Day weekend and its aftermath were a particularly challenging stretch for the administration, which was blocked from ending Harvard University's ability to enroll foreign students and then from terminating New York City's congestion pricing program, as litigation in both matters continues.

2 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Lisa Rubin

Last weekend, when audio of Joe Biden’s 2023 interviews with former special counsel Robert Hur became public, the former president tried to deflate its significance, insisting, through a spokesperson, that “the audio does nothing but confirm what is already public.” Indeed, transcripts from the two days of interviews have been publicly available for over a year. But, as we’ve all experienced, hearing a conversation and reading those same words are often wholly different experiences.

3 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Lisa Rubin |Allison Detzel

This is an adapted excerpt from MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin’s May 15 comments on the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship case. On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship, but the biggest takeaway from those arguments has nothing to do with birthright citizenship at all.

3 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Lisa Rubin

Ever since Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura took the witness stand Tuesday at his sex trafficking trial in New York, her testimony has been riveting and terrifying. For example, just before the trial broke for lunch on Tuesday, Ventura explained how “freak-offs” — or sexual encounters with a hired dancer or escort that Combs allegedly forced her to engage in and would watch, direct and film — almost became like a full-time job: “They ranged anywhere from 36, 48, to 72 hours.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Lisa Rubin

Ever since Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura took the witness stand Tuesday at his sex trafficking trial in New York, her testimony has been riveting and terrifying. For example, just before the trial broke for lunch Tuesday, Ventura explained how “freak offs” — or sexual encounters with a hired dancer or escort that Combs allegedly forced her to engage in and would watch, direct and film — almost became like a full-time job: “They ranged anywhere from 36, 48, to 72 hours.