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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... it can't get much worse." Here's hoping. I was happy to run into author and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin when I arrived, and we chatted about the steady stream of celebrities in hot water that have kept him on the air for the past few months. This week, he's got a 10,000-word piece (yes, you read that right) in the latest issue of The New Yorker taking an in-depth look at...
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Edward Youkilis grew up in Cincinnati, and dreamed of becoming a painter and living in New York City. After leaving the Master of Fine Arts program at Yale, in 1971, he landed a job as an assistant to Helen Frankenthaler and found lodging on the parlor floor of her town . . .
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Wonkette (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
CNN = law jernalism! Ha ha ha “why isn’t Tiger Woods talking to the public and everyone about why he hit a fire hydrant and a tree on his property? A little birdie tells Jeffrey Toobin the hot sex secrets…” [CNN] Tiger Wood - CNN - Jeffrey Toobin - Fire hydrant - United States
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Sometime in the next few months, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four confederates will be indicted in Manhattan federal court, and the case will arrive at a turning point: the designation of the judge who will preside over their trial. The selection is usually made by a draw from a wheel . . .
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Jeffrey Toobin starts his New Yorker brief against the Stupak amendment with a quick sketch of the history of abortion. "Abortion," he begins, "is almost as old as childbirth. There has always been a need for some women to end their pregnancies." This claim is at best misleading. Joseph Dellapenna's comprehensive history of abortion goes to some trouble to show that...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Jeffrey Toobin has an interesting essay in the New Yorker: Abortion is almost as old as childbirth. There has always been a need for some women to end their pregnancies. In modern times, the law’s attitude toward that need has varied. In the United States, at the time the Constitution was adopted, abortions before “quickening” were [...]
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin fretted in a column in the November 23, 2009 edition of The New Yorker that “abortion, as the academics like to say, is being marginalized,” and even turned his ire on some in his left-wing camp, including President Obama. He accused “many modern pro-choice Democrats,” including the President, of ceding “the moral...
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Abortion is almost as old as childbirth. There has always been a need for some women to end their pregnancies. In modern times, the law’s attitude toward that need has varied. In the United States, at the time the Constitution was adopted, abortions before “quickening” were . . .
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CNN (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The federal courts face an unprecedented challenge in trying accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo detainees for the terrorist attacks that took 3,000 lives, says CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
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Progressive Values (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... the golfer, and only to be one of many casual friends of the golfer. CNN's senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin has noted where Uchitel has hired top attorney Gloria Allred to represent her. Usually, Toobin notes, that clients of Allread tend to remain in the news. This is all part of the growing public image problems for the golf champion. He has failed to answer police questions...
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Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... a talking head, he showed his inherent class and dignity with this: CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin noted on the May 20 edition of CNN's The Situation Room that "[t]here was a column in The New York Times not too long ago where it talked about some of the humor in the campaign, and the punch line was a line that was -- that Hillary Clinton was a 'white bitch.' "...
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How Appealing (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
"Post-Pizza: Who will judge Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?" Jeffrey Toobin has this "Talk of the Town" essay in the November 30, 2009 issue of The New Yorker....
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All Things Anderson (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... more than 10%, and a couple gets Rhodes scholarships to Oxford. Next was a strategy session with Jeffrey Toobin, Joe Johns, and Bill Burck to talk about trying the five 9/11 defendants in NY. Sanjay Gupta joined Erica to talk about a report of a man who after a car accident was thought to be in a coma for 23 years but could hear what they were saying the whole time. Next was a preview...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
As Sewers Fill, Waste Poisons Waterways , a really gross story on NY sewer problems in the New York Times. NY Times Editorial on how police are using GPS devices as surveillance tools without court orders S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford faces 37 ethics charges. In the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin c ompares the old NY Pizza Connection trial to the upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. This is an open thread,...
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Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Who, in your view, is likely to have been more "moral"? The community which risked lives for our independence and produced the constitution? Or 19th century doctors? That's not a question posed by Jeffrey Toobin in his New Yorker piece...
