Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin, the chief legal analyst for CNN, was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1993 to 2020.
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profiles ·
Jeffrey Toobin on the lawyer, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, and author of “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.”
letter from baltimore ·
Where gang members and their female guards set the rules.
comment ·
The Supreme Court’s embrace of gay rights last week had an almost serene majesty. Yet the decision had its roots in something prosaic and largely …
profiles ·
Jeffrey Toobin’s 2013 Profile of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
profiles ·
Jeffrey Toobin on the close Senate race in Massachusetts between the progressive Democrat and Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren and the incumbent Republican senator, Scott Brown.
annals of law ·
Jeffrey Toobin on how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, dramatically changing campaign-finance laws.
annals of law ·
The Justice Department clearly wronged Senator Ted Stevens. Did it also wrong one of his prosecutors?
profiles ·
What will the Supreme Court be like without its liberal leader?
annals of law ·
Sex, fame, and the case of Roman Polanski.
comment ·
Comment about the conservative shift of the Supreme Court. As George W. Bush staggers toward the end of his second term, he can point to one major project …
annals of law ·
Why are the courts leaning on journalists?
annals of law ·
Jeffrey Toobin’s 2005 piece on Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy opposes racial preferences and argues for expansive Presidential powers, yet he wrote the two most important pro-gay-rights decisions in the Court’s history. One conservative called him “the most dangerous man in America.”
the political scene ·
Manhattan’s legendary D.A. faces a tough challenger.
annals of law ·
Did the prosecutors in the Louima case have the right man all along?
profiles ·
How far will the Attorney General go?
annals of law ·
ANNALS OF LAW about women judges and executions in Texas. . . Since 1976, Texas has executed two hundred and thirty-two people, which is more than a third …
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the initial behind-the-scenes negotiations between Kenneth Starr’s prosecutors and Monica Lewinsky’s attorneys on her …
annals of law ·
ANNALS OF LAW about Washington's nascent impeachment drama. The writer describes the newly renovated suite H2-186, in the Gerald R. Ford House Office …
comment ·
Signed comment about the insanity defense... "Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes," Nick Carraway observes in "The Great Gatsby," …
annals of law ·
ANNALS OF LAW about jury trials, peremptory challenges, and two new books on juries; Jeffrey Abramson's "We, the Jury", and Stephen J. Adler's "The Jury.O …
annals of law ·
Jeffrey Toobin writes about the legal strategies in the O. J. Simpson trial.
comment ·
Comment about Shaw v. Reno, a Supreme Court case about the 12th congressional district of North Carolina and a related trial. A great national experiment …
comment ·
Comment about televising Supreme Court sessions. There are only so many ways to study the 8 Republicans and one Democrat who constitute the U.S. Supreme …
annals of law ·
The Supreme Court Justice is still fuming about his tumultuous confirmation, Jeffrey Toobin writes. In an unprecedented step, he is going public with his grievances—and lashing out in his votes.
comment ·
Comment on the U.S. government's arbitrary denial of security clearances to prospective government employees who are gay. President Clinton has agreed …