Jeffrey Toobin Quotes

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

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.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

The biggest police gun battle ever to take place on American soil had begun, and it was on live television. -

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

We have never had a president of the United States or a nominee of a major party who was a Supreme Court law clerk.

Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

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

The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,

this is a girl who did drugs, who fucked her high school teacher, who chose Berkeley over Stanford. Maybe she really could be one of us.

Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

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I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

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He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

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

I grew up, like most people in my generation, watching John Travolta. I was thrilled to meet him.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.