In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now st...
Complete and utter trash mixes with bold navigation through legal, political, and constitutional processes. Toobin, with liberties and licenses aside, illuminates every topic brightly and boldly with intelligent discussion and wise-cracking sarcasm. This book begins in a parking lot in Little R...
In those first few days, Ginsburg saw his role as as much family friend as lawyer. The lawyer regarded himself, in essence, as Bernie Lewinsky’s proxy, and as Monica began to tell him the story of her relationship, Ginsburg grew furious at the president. Ginsburg had known Monica as a child, and ...
He stuffed a 9 mm handgun into his waistband and a .38-caliber revolver into his coat pocket and walked step by small step down the stairs. His wife, Rita, who had fallen in love with him when she was 12, couldn’t believe the sight. For a man who was so near death, cancer everywhere, he looked be...
O.J. Simpson 20. TOO TIGHT In a trial that showcased a good deal of shoddy detective work, the investigators also scored some brilliant successes. One of them involved the famous pair of brown leather gloves—the left hand recovered from the murder scene, the right from the narrow pathway behind K...
Even two decades later, the facts are familiar. Anita Hill, also a graduate of Yale Law School, worked on Thomas’s staff at the Department of Education and then at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. According to her testimony, Thomas made a series of crude advances to her, which include...
Not everyone was pleased by the ruling in Lawrence v. Texas. The case turned out to be a critical moment in the culture wars. Justice Kennedy’s opinion was hailed on major editorial pages, in law schools, in big American cities, and in foreign capitals. But those voices, as Justice Scalia was qui...