Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Ross Toobinis an American lawyer, author, and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth21 May 1960
CountryUnited States of America
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The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
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It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.
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There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,
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The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
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Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison's Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.
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I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'
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I have never seen a case that was more clearly won on a closing argument,
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The big criminal case has become a staple of cable news. It is part of the core mission of cable news networks; print media have a much more flexible approach.
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Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
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It's incredibly important, ... Data such as e-mail has become indispensable, particularly in the prosecution of white-collar crime.
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Elections have consequences, and one of them is the winners get to pick the justices.
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It's a great time to be studying the court.
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this act was an aberration, that their client is an honorable family man.
It's really just kind of a place-holding situation.