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
act client family honorable
this act was an aberration, that their client is an honorable family man.
determination determined judge jurors point rid
The point is that the judge is determined to keep this thing moving, and he's getting rid of jurors who are impediments.
among people
I think there may be a sense among some people that 30 to 40 years is too long.
cool goes passions trial until year
He's got to let passions cool, a year at least until this trial goes forward,
book charge whenever
Go ahead, book me and charge me whenever you feel like it.
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Starting Monday, we're going to see this campaign at a new level of negativity and hostility and combat that will make the summer look like a student council election.
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I have never seen a case that was more clearly won on a closing argument,
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Cheney has an unusual demeanor for a politician, ... He is low-key in a really profound way. I counted two sentences about domestic policy and about 40 minutes about terror and Iraq. That's a bet that the public shares those priorities. I don't know if it's right or not.
judging long reports
Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.
believe giving accomplishment
Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.
careers long world
My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.
kings gun law
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.
philosophy views interesting
It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.
gore
There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,