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Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993, writes about legal affairs.

He has written Profiles of the Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, as well as articles on such subjects as the legal implications of the war on terror, Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Florida recount, Kenneth Starr’s investigation of President Clinton, and the trials of Martha Stewart, Timothy McVeigh, and O. J. Simpson. In his 2003 article “Lunch at Martha’s,” Toobin obtained the first interview with Martha Stewart regarding her investigation for insider trading. His article “An Incendiary Defense,” published in 1994, disclosed for the first time the Simpson defense team’s plans to accuse Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence and to play “the race card.”

Toobin is also the senior legal analyst for CNN, which he joined in 2002 after seven years with ABC News. In 2000, he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Eliàn Gonzàlez case. His most recent book, “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court,” was published in 2007. Toobin is also the author of the books “Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election,” (2001), “A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President,” (2000), and “The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson,” (1996).

Before joining The New Yorker, Toobin served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. He also served as an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, an experience that provided the basis for his first book, “Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case—United States v. Oliver North.”

Toobin lives in Manhattan.

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October 29, 2012
Blog: Comment

A New Right to Vote?

Is there a clear constitutional right to vote in the United States? The answer, traditionally, has been no. That’s what Republican-dominated states were banking on when they moved, after the 2010 elections, to restrict...
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October 15, 2012
Blog: News Desk

Arlen Specter and the Supreme Court

Add this this to the always complicated and often maddening legacy of Arlen Specter in the United States Senate: no Senator in fifty years had as profound an influence on the Supreme Court as...
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October 11, 2012
Blog: Comment

At the Supreme Court, a Timid Defense

After the arguments in the Supreme Court yesterday, it’s unclear whether there is a legal problem with the affirmative-action admissions program at the University of Texas. Regardless of how the case turns out, though,...
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October 2, 2012
Blog: Comment

Gay Marriage’s Ballot Test

There is one unavoidable fact about American voters and same-sex marriage: every time the people have had chance to speak on the subject, they have voted it down. Over the past decades, voters in...
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September 18, 2012
Blog: Comment

Deciding Marriage

The Supreme Court is likely to take up the subject of same-sex marriage in its coming term, which begins next week. But how the Justices decide to approach the issue—and which case they choose...
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Sep 17, 2012
Profiles

The Professor

PROFILE of Elizabeth Warren. Last summer, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor, held a series of houseparties around Massachusetts to test support for a possible run for the United States Senate. At one such event, held at the Andover home of veteran Democratic activist M. J. Powell, Warren was asked…
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August 28, 2012
Blog: Comment

Redefining the Abortion Debate

It’s understandable why Democrats want to use Todd Akin as a proxy for Republicans’ views about abortion. The Missouri congressman opposes the right of rape victims to obtain abortions because (a) these victims can...
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August 22, 2012
Blog: News Desk

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier Speaks

Over two days last month, I visited Graham Spanier at his apartment in State College, and we talked about the Sandusky scandal and its aftermath. He had not spoken publicly before. What follows is an edited version of our conversation.
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August 14, 2012
Blog: Comment

Judges for Sale

Campaign-finance discussions tend to focus on the Presidential race and the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, but the biggest outrage concerning money in politics has little to do with either. It involves elections that rarely receive the attention they deserve: those for judgeships.
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July 31, 2012
Blog: Comment

Obama’s Unfinished Judicial Legacy

By neglecting the judiciary, Obama has limited his own legacy as President.
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