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Lisa Rubin
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@MSNOWnews senior legal reporter & recovering litigator; former: off-air legal analyst @maddow, @wagnertonight. Don’t let the pearls fool ya.
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Sep 27, 2022
    “You were not prosecuted for being a Trump supporter ... You are not a political prisoner … You were trying to stop the singular thing that makes America America, the peaceful transfer of power.” -- Judge Amy Berman Jackson to 1/6 defendant Kyle Young at his sentencing.
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Aug 3, 2024
    NEW: Tanya Chutkan did not come to play—and even as her case was stayed, she was getting ready. Case in point? Her 16-page decision issued tonight rejecting Trump’s motion to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Oct 22, 2024
    NEW: Today’s court order requiring Rudy Giuliani to place most of his possessions, cash, and even his NYC apartment in receivership for the two GA election workers to whom he owes $148 million reminds us what the Big Lie has cost its most avid mouthpieces. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Sep 18, 2024
    NEW: Today, while announcing the indictment of Sean “Diddy” Combs, SDNY U.S. Attorney Damian Williams thanked the victims and witnesses who have stepped forward so far. But there is one whose story looms largest in the indictment: Cassie Ventura, his ex-partner. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Nov 3, 2022
    Tonight, faced with a court order preventing the transfer of any non-cash asset held by the Trump Org., his trust, or just himself without two weeks' notice to the court and the New York A.G., Donald Trump freaked the freak out. Communism, he moaned, is here in NY. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Sep 26, 2023
    NEW: A New York trial court judge has found that Trump, his adult sons, and Allen Weisselberg engaged in a persistent, years-long fraud through “fantasy world” valuations of core Trump assets, including his own residence and various golf courses and office buildings. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Sep 30, 2024
    Look beyond the result of today’s GA abortion decision, and you can see Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney stake out a broader, methodological position, especially in the footnotes. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Mar 10, 2024
    For those of you wondering how long it would take Donald Trump to defame E. Jean Carroll again, it seems to have happened tonight in Rome, GA. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Dec 23, 2022
    Hope Hicks, once so close to Trump that she could anticipate his moods and needs better than anyone, did not need a subpoena to be interviewed or to hand over documents. And that tells me that the rest of her transcript might be popcorn-worthy. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Apr 16, 2024
    NEW: Not even 2 days in, Judge Merchan calls out Trump’s conduct, telling Todd Blanche “while the juror was about 12 feet from client, your client was audibly saying something in her direction….I will not have any juror intimidated in this courtroom.”
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Aug 6, 2025
    Virginia Roberts Giuffre's family issued a statement to MSNBC about the reported meeting this evening at VP Vance's home tonight about the administration's approach to the Epstein files: 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Sep 13, 2024
    NEW: I watched a portion of the Trump press conference today--but it wasn't until I read his comments that I realized that just a day after New York's highest court upheld the gag order, he arguably violated it again. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Aug 14, 2024
    NEW: Judge Juan Merchan has now denied Trump’s third motion for Merchan’s recusal, which argued that Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee — and Merchan’s daughter’s prior work on her behalf — changed the calculus. Merchan disagreed. 1/
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    Lisa Rubin
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    Dec 31, 2024
    The appellate decision affirming E. Jean Carroll’s first jury verdict against Donald Trump is a 77-page foray into rules of evidence. You might be tempted to put it aside. Don’t look away. 1/
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