Jeffrey Toobin

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Biography

Lawyer, author, legal correspondent for CNN and The New Yorker magazine.

  • Primary profession
  • Writer·producer·miscellaneous
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 21 May 1960
  • Place of birth
  • New York City
  • Education
  • Harvard Law School·Phillips Exeter Academy
  • Parents
  • Jerome Toobin·Marlene Sanders

Music

Movies

Books

Trivia

Legal analyst for various TV networks.

Attorney at law. Served as an assistant United States attorney in Brooklyn and as an associate counsel in the office of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh.

Son of journalist Marlene Sanders and producer Jerome Toobin.

CNN senior legal analyst.

Attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City and earned his Bachelors degree from Harvard College in 1982, where he covered sports for The Harvard Crimson, using the column name, "Inner Toobin". Graduated magna cum laude and earned a Truman Scholarship. He is also a 1986 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Lives with his wife, Amy, and their two children, Adam and Ellen in New York City.

Quotes

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

In the end, notwithstanding a surreal detour in the 1970s, Patricia led the life she for which she was destined back in Hillsborough. The story of Patricia Hearst, as extraordinary as it once was, had a familiar, even predictable ending. She did not turn into a revolutionary. She turned into her mother.

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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