Lisa Rubin

New York

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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Hegseth's Senate testimony on court orders proves we're living in the legal upside-down

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.
After Whitney Hermandorfer’s testimony, what can we expect from Trump’s judicial nominees?

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.
As law firms and clients push back against Trump, he shifts focus to judicial 'vetters'

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.
Victims' lawsuits show FBI and DOJ's focus on Epstein files misses the mark

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.
Judge extends order blocking Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students

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.
Judge extends order blocking Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Lisa Rubin |Emily Berk

1 hour agoThe decision comes less than 24 hours after another court ruled against the president’s use of an emergency law to justify tariffs on dozens of the United States’ largest trading partners. A second federal court has ruled against President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs on imports from around the …
Courts can't stop the Trump administration if it ignores them

1 month 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.
Biden's audio from Hur interviews highlights the need for judicial transparency

1 month 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.
Lisa Rubin: The biggest takeaway from SCOTUS’ birthright citizenship hearing isn’t what you may think

1 month 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.
Cassie Ventura's list of names is a key part of Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ trial

1 month 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.

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