Jeffrey Toobin Quotations

The point is that the judge is determined to keep this thing moving, and he's getting rid of jurors who are impediments.

One of the toughest issues here is how much you disclose about the character and history of the accuser in the Bryant case. At some level, it's relevant to her credibility, which is an important issue in the case. But there are also boundaries of fairness and good taste that need to be considered.

One idea, move the New Orleans courts wholesale to another city, even another state.

Go ahead, book me and charge me whenever you feel like it.

He's got to let passions cool, a year at least until this trial goes forward,

I think there may be a sense among some people that 30 to 40 years is too long.

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.

Mesereau got him out on bail. Now it looks like he's never going back in.

Michael Jackson is one of the dozen best-known people in the world, and he is facing extremely serious criminal charges. That is a very big news story.

The only reason that we will care about O.J. Simpson 10 years after, 20 years after, is what it told us about race in this country.

The only reason that we will care about O. J. Simpson 10 years after, 20 years after, is what it told us about race in this country.

The only reason we will care about O.J. Simpson, ... is what it told us about race in this country.

The defense has made the ... argument that the prejudicial publicity from the release of that is too great, so keep it secret.

The experience of O.J. convinced (news) management that there is tremendous interest in high-profile legal cases,

This will be an investigation of some complexity given the sheer number of crimes that he's likely to be charged with. So this is a process that's only going to get started today and probably will last several months.

This Supreme Court nominee presents extraordinary circumstances, requiring a filibuster.

This really was a story out of a bad novel.

There is no legal requirement of any public disclosure of a justice's health. And justices are very cagey and very limited in what they disclose.

This was such an avoidable problem. She wasn't even charged with insider trading.

This was a total rout. The story she told investigators after she made the stock trade simply didn't add up.

What really matters is who wins presidential elections.

What appears to be going on here is some sort of compromise. The court feels strongly about national security and the president's ability to conduct foreign affairs and military affairs, yet also responsible for the rule of law.

What the court has decided now is that 'we are the sole and exclusive arbiter of what needs to be disclosed.' That rule seems somewhat extreme.

Benedict showed Skakel lied about facts and placed himself in places that were incriminating ... I think that's what turned the tide.

Elections have consequences, and one of them is the winners get to pick the justices.

This is potentially an earthquake, because there is no doubt that this law conflicts with Roe v. Wade. It is completely contradictory to what the current law on abortion is.

this act was an aberration, that their client is an honorable family man.

There's a contradiction between the two, and as always, the Supreme Court wins, and that bodes ill for the California case.

There really is no precedent for this kind of destruction, so every possible solution is a new solution, ... Lou Dobbs Tonight.

It's a great time to be studying the court.

It's really just kind of a place-holding situation.

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.

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.

It's incredibly important, ... Data such as e-mail has become indispensable, particularly in the prosecution of white-collar crime.

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.'

I have never seen a case that was more clearly won on a closing argument,

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.

Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't think even conservatives believe the court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade.