
Lisa Rubin
Legal Analyst at MSNBC
@msnbc legal correspondent & recovering litigator; former: off-air legal analyst @maddow, @wagnertonight. Don’t let the pearls fool ya.
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Lisa Rubin
On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified yet again on Capitol Hill, this time appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on his department’s 2026 budget. But many of the questions he faced had less to do with his department’s projected spending and more to do with his leadership and fidelity to the law generally. For example, Sen.
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3 weeks ago |
msnbc.com | Lisa Rubin
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first judicial nominations hearing of President Donald Trump’s second term. They heard from Trump’s first batch of potential federal judges since he returned to the White House: four nominees to Missouri federal district courts and a nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the federal appeals court for Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The 6th Circuit nominee, Whitney Hermandorfer, is impressively credentialed.
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3 weeks ago |
msnbc.com | Lisa Rubin
By early last week, federal courts in Washington, D.C., had issued three permanent injunctions against three Trump executive orders concerning law firms. Each court order was filled with outrage and, in one case, more than two dozen exclamation points. (We are still awaiting a decision on a fourth law firm’s motion for permanent relief.)But not only are the law firms that formally fought back winning, but also those that capitulated are beginning to bleed key personnel and/or clients.
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3 weeks ago |
msnbc.com | Lisa Rubin
On Thursday, a woman named Maria Farmer filed a lawsuit against the federal government that begins with a paragraph both familiar and chilling: “For nearly a quarter of a century,” Farmer charges, Jeffrey Epstein got away with a “wide-ranging sex trafficking venture” in which she was one of hundreds of victims.
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4 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Lisa Rubin |Emily Berk
A federal judge said she is extending a temporary order on Thursday to block the Trump administration's revocation of Harvard University's ability to enroll international students. The extension came after the Trump administration said it would give Harvard 30 days to challenge its revocation, according to a letter attached to the Wednesday night court filing.
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