Lisa Rubin ✓

@lawofruby · New York, NY · joined 25 Jan 2017

@MSNOWnews senior legal reporter & recovering litigator; former: off-air legal analyst @maddow, @wagnertonight. Don’t let the pearls fool ya.

255 858Followers

2 481Following

9 078Posts total

571.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views25 553this account5 994median for 100K–1M

Reach, %9.99%this account2.51%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.71%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	25 553	5 994	4.26×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	9.99%	2.51%	3.98×
Engagement rate	1.71%	1.40%	1.22×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

25.9K17 Aug

140.9K19 Aug

29.3K

29.9K

30.8K

16.5K

19.1K

25.3K

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110.8K25 Aug

22.8K

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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.57%17 Aug

1.47%19 Aug

1.93%

1.73%

1.63%

3.06%

1.71%

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0.85%

2.02%25 Aug

3.05%

1.70%

2.14%

2.55%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes83.5%8 475 in total

Reposts11.7%1 189 in total

Replies1.5%153 in total

Quotes0.3%27 in total

Bookmarks3.0%301 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

And still blocked? The USPS mail-in ballot rule scheduled to be published in final form in the Federal Register tomorrow. FIN. 13.3K views · 305 likes · 28 reposts · 6 replies 25 Aug 2026 The bottom line? The court found a violation of its injunction but ordered no relief. And that means we're still practically where we were last night: SCOTUS's stay of the CA v. Trump injunction means Trump can implement some, but not all, provisions of the elections EO. 3/ 15.8K views · 302 likes · 32 reposts · 3 replies 25 Aug 2026 @lawofruby These judges, not the trump judges, are the most frustrating. Because in assuming, time after time, the most benign interpretation and good faith of Trump’s actions, they apply technicalities in a way that does a grave disservice to the law and the American people. 9.2K views · 137 likes · 7 reposts · 11 replies 25 Aug 2026 Instead, she suggests plaintiffs could file an amended complaint challenging the newly final rule, now that it is no longer hypothetical. (CA AG Rob Bonta has already signaled his intent to challenge the final rule.) 2/ 22.8K views · 605 likes · 82 reposts · 7 replies 25 Aug 2026 NEW: Judge Indira Talwani finds that by issuing a final rule on whose mail or absentee ballots it will and will not transmit, USPS has, in fact, violated her existing preliminary injunction. But she also holds the plaintiffs' requested relief is no different than the status quo 110.8K views · 1.9K likes · 327 reposts · 21 replies 25 Aug 2026 Bill Essayli's hometown paper is asking DOJ the same question I did: Does the Ninth Circuit ruling about Sigal Chattah apply to him too? (Neither of us got an answer beyond DOJ's assertion to seek relief from SCOTUS.) 25.6K views · 177 likes · 36 reposts · 3 replies 19 Aug 2026 My latest: Trump's top federal prosecutor in L.A. could face new challenge after appellate ruling https://t.co/9671D9trmj 25.3K views · 25 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies 19 Aug 2026 And then the DOJ asserts that it does not matter whether Trump or any president "has an influence on the prosecutorial decisions of his subordinates (as the Constitution plainly contemplates," but that the legal test examines only "whether those prosecutors have exercised their 19.1K views · 288 likes · 27 reposts · 12 replies 19 Aug 2026 @lawofruby This isn’t just about Comey. DOJ asking a federal court to bless the principle that a president can direct the machinery of federal prosecution against his political enemies is absurd. I hope Comey wins—and that the court draws a very clear line here. 16.5K views · 458 likes · 42 reposts · 4 replies 19 Aug 2026 And then DOJ further argues -- noting President Kennedy's selection of his brother as his attorney general, which predates post-Watergate reforms and norms -- that "as a matter of historical analysis," DOJ's purported independence "is a myth." 4/ 30.8K views · 459 likes · 37 reposts · 4 replies 19 Aug 2026 “The purported 'independence' of DOJ that Comey cites is antithetical to the constitutional separation of powers (which lodges the Executive power in the President alone)." 3/ 29.9K views · 478 likes · 39 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 It argues that even if there were evidence that Trump had ordered Blanche or the relevant US Attorney to indict Comey, “the Chief Executive directing his subordinates to exercise core Executive functions is a feature, not a bug, of our constitutional system.” 2/ 29.3K views · 504 likes · 52 reposts · 7 replies 19 Aug 2026 NEW: DOJ’s brief opposing Comey's motion to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution doubles down on the argument Todd Blanche made on the Sunday shows over the weekend: The DOJ need not be independent of the president. 1/ 140.9K views · 1.7K likes · 293 reposts · 48 replies 19 Aug 2026 NEW: A Department of Justice spokesperson, asked for comment on the Ninth Circuit's ruling disqualifying Nevada's acting U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah tells MS NOW, "We disagree with the 9th Circuit’s decision and we plan to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court.” 25.9K views · 330 likes · 57 reposts · 16 replies 17 Aug 2026 NEW: A 9th Circuit panel unanimously upholds the disqualification of Nevada's acting U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah. But its reasoning likely applies to Bill Essayli, who was appointed First Assistant U.S. Attorney after his own acting tenure ran out. 1/ 56K views · 787 likes · 122 reposts · 8 replies 17 Aug 2026

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