#jeffrey toobin

[books-and-cookies]

5 SECOND REVIEW

* as someone fascinated by this case for years, it was a blast reading a whole book about the trial proceedings, written by a journalist who was there for the entirety of the case

* it was amazing reading about everyone involved, their histories and personalities, and seeing how all of it shaped the outcome of the trial

* the author was firmly set in his view of the guilt of the defendant, but the presentation of facts felt measured and objective to me

* i could genuinely discuss this for pages and pages, but i'll stop, urging anyone who is a true crime enthusiast to pick this up

* 5/5⭐️

#books #booklr #book review #the run of his life #jeffrey toobin #mary says stuff about #nonfiction

[yeahiwasintheshit]

nah man, im good

#jeffrey toobin

[arcticdementor]

(link)

#bennett's phylactery #twitter #screenshot #jeffrey toobin #special supplemental nutrition program for women infants and children #cnn

[parttimereporter]

HE CAME.

HE LEFT.

TOOBIN QUITS CNN..

Friends, I’ve decided that, after 20 years, I’m leaving @cnn after my vacation. Was great to spend my last day on air with pals Wolf, Anderson and Don. Love all my former colleagues. Watch for my next book, about the Oklahoma City bombing, coming in 2023 from @simonandschuster

#jeffrey toobin #toobin #CNN #journalism

[gchoate17]

I read 25 books this year, nine of which were fiction. I went down a Malcolm Gladwell hole (that I thought I'd already been down) for a bit, and I read a few good books written by friends, but it's worth noting that I would gladly lose friends before I put a book on this list that didn't deserve to be there. Here were my top 11, ranked in the order that I enjoyed them:

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)

A perfect futuristic dystopian novel in that it feels like a such a real-world possibility and doesn't overlook the finest of details -- the obvious ones, as well as the subtle ones. I'm eager to pick up the next one.

2. The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Galdwell (2021)

A fascinating perspective on the advancement of air power and bombing in the years leading up to (and during) World War II. As with most honest war stories, there is no clear good and evil after digging beneath the surface, and Gladwell does a phenomenal job of digging. I highly recommend the audiobook because of the use of recorded interviews.

3. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)

Somehow I accidentally deleted my review of this one and now I'm going to lose sleep over it. What I remember, seven months after reading it, is that I'm a connector and I need to collaborate with mavens if I really want to get an idea off the ground. And also that I should be pushing Blues Clues onto my children, even though I'm a die-hard Sesame Streeter.

4. The Lost Son by Stephanie Vanderslice (2022)

I struggled with the back and forth in time and place at first — as I normally do — but settled into it after the first 50 pages, when the narrative takes off. A good gut-punch will tether you to a story no matter where it goes in space and time. In this book, Vanderslice gives us a solid World War II family drama that pulls especially hard on the ties that bind siblings to each other, and parents to their children. I finished this one with a quiet, snotty cry next to a stranger on an airplane.

5. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

Gladwell tells a good story and I'm a big fan of debunking the myth that "genius" alone leads to success -- one also needs resources and the luck of generational timing. As a dad, though, my major takeaway is that my kids should be going to school year-round.

6. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (2019)

I appreciated the distance in perspective from what Atwood gave us in The Handmaid's Tale. I especially enjoyed Aunt Lydia's perspective and the story of her indoctrination. As the three narratives drifted closer together, I found myself eager for further development of the tale instead of hearing the same tale from different points of view. Still, this should be required reading for the contemporary age.

7. Bettyville by George Hodgman (2015)

Hodgman pieces together vignettes that seem at times unrelated to the next or the last, but he somehow manages to weave together a narrative that is as complete as one can hope. The relationships he gives us are at once sad and humorous, and painfully true when it comes to hiding our fears from the ones we love. This book is ultimately a declaration of the love and forgiveness he has for his mother. And ultimately, oddly, it's also a demonstration of the love she has for him.

8. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021)

This memoir written about a time of sorrow and unknowing follows the writer's exploration of her memories and she applies them to her present day in that common humanistic attempt to make sense of it all. The journey of this book feels authentic, especially because Zauner provides a fantastic soundtrack through Japanese Breakfast that corroborates and reiterates the feelings in the book. She has so much love for her mother and it comes through. (Also, I want to go to Korea and eat all the things now.)

9. Homegrown by Jeffrey Toobin (2023)

It's amazing that we (and Toobin) have access to so many pieces of evidence of McVeigh's life. This book feels exhaustive, but I was glued to everything right up until McVeigh goes into custody. The early sections of the court case got a little dry, but keeping those sections were the right editorial choice because it showed the excessive expenses associated with his defense. Toobin lured me back in. My wife was glad when I finished this one because I finally stopped coming home and saying, "Back to Tim McVeigh -- GET THIS!" and launching into what I learned about him/the case. The whole thing is fascinating.

10. On Animals by Susan Orlean (2021)

An interesting look at how humans interact with various animals in a specific time and place, but also throughout history. Well researched, but full of warm language. A plethora of interesting tidbits to share with the wife (that she doesn't really care about probably, but she humors me and listens).

11. We Hold Our Breath by Micah Fields (2023)

Though I've visited a half-dozen or so times, Houston has never had a definable personality for me. I appreciated the personality of the city Fields gives us here, but his real accomplishment is the portrait he provides of his imperfect mother. It's in how he writes honestly about her flaws that we see the love he has for her. That's not easy to do.

Previous Book Lists: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011.

#book lists #books #reading #best of 2023 #2023 books #malcolm gladwell #a handmaid's tale #margaret atwood #stephanie vanderslice #micah fields #michelle zauner #jeffrey toobin #george hodgman #susan orlean

[filosofablogger]

No 'Absolute' Rights!

In the year 1787 when the U.S. Constitution was drafted, things were a bit different than they are today.  There was no Internet, no cars, no air-conditioning, no airplanes.  Women were basically chattel with no rights of their own, and Black people were still slaves in most of the nation.  There were 13 states, not 50, and many of the nations we know today did not exist as such in 1787.  Life…

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#1st amendment #2nd amendment #Donald Trump #January 6th attempted coup #Jeffrey Toobin #U.S. Constitution #U.S. Supreme Court

[shanelemagne]

imagine this being on your wikipedia page until the end of time.

#jeffrey toobin zoom video cnn #jeffrey tobin #wiki

[iirulancorrino]

fyi womanbloggers of tumblr--some interesting books in here

#books #I've had we were once a family on my list for a while--I can only imagine it's going to be gutting #didn't know matthew desmond had a new book coming out tho that's a must read #unfortunately public masturbator jeffrey toobin's book on the okc bombing does sounds really good

[miamian4life]

SHOTGUN: never go of with a zoom like @toobin2-blog ....... ☄️🤓

#cnn #jeffrey toobin zoom video- why was he suspended from cnn? #jerklikejeff #toobinblastoffcnn #who is jeffrey toobin? #gowokegocnn #cnnjerkers #letsgobrandon

[trustchase]

Jeffrey toobin zoom video cnn

#Jeffrey toobin zoom video cnn movie

#Jeffrey toobin zoom video cnn code

An additional thrill to do this during a work meeting. Because, for men like him, there is an additional thrill in masturbating when people might catch you. HOW is that not sexual harassment of the highest magnitude? Consider this question: WHY did he choose to masturbate DURING the meeting?” Man (with fame, clout, authority) in work meeting pulls out his dick and masturbates, thinking nobody will notice. He thought his camera & mic were off, but he knew he was in a work meeting,” she wrote. He was aware he was participating in a work meeting - this is not in dispute. “Jerking off DURING A WORK MEETING is deliberate. This thread by on Twitter explains the conundrum well. The issue here really is, why does a guy do this on a work call unless he likes the thrill of getting caught? It’s deviant any way you look at it. So was Harvey Weinstein, who was reported to have sprinkled his house plant in plain view of witnesses. was dragged for engaging in this same activity on phone calls with women. If MeToo has taught me anything it’s that consent matters and if a man exposes himself to anyone without their consent it’s akin to rape. That’s what we’re really talking about here.

#Jeffrey toobin zoom video cnn movie

Fox canceled plans for a movie based on the book after Hearst got through with Toobin.Īnd now Toobin wants the world to accept that he made a “mistake” and “accidentally” sexually harassed everyone in a Zoom call. He’s also already well-known for running afoul of the #MeToo crowd when Patty Hearst blasted him for sensationalizing her rape in his book American Heiress in 2018. Toobin is rabidly anti-Trump as any famous journalist must be. Will you shut up, man? October 20, 2020 I've been working at home for 3 years and an "honest mistake" is farting without hitting the mute button or standing up and everyone seeing your Spiderman pajama pants.

#Jeffrey toobin zoom video cnn code

How does he expect us to believe he did not check this before deciding to whip out wee Willie? And worse, why is that a good excuse for flogging the dolphin during a work call? Do we need congressional intervention to tell us that being an Army of One on a Zoom call is the wrong thing to do? Do we need a new criminal code for 2020 specifying that hoisting your own petard while attending a conference call is offensive to others? It’s sad that humans can’t just self-police. “Other people will weigh in about whether it was appropriate for them to get rid of me, and of CNN to keep me.He claims he thought he had “muted the video” but left it on “accidentally.” But that’s not believable, because when turning the camera off on Zoom, there is an avatar where the video used to be. I assume, I hope, they will be at least mixed,” Toobin said of the reaction to his return to CNN. “Look, I live in the world, I know social media, what the reactions are likely to be. “This was not the straw that broke the camel’s back this was the only incident.” … I thought this punishment was excessive, but that is why they don’t ask the criminal to be the judge in his own case.” He added that he was “incredibly grateful” to CNN for bringing him back.Ĭamerota also asked Toobin about the investigation that led to his firing: “They looked at my entire career at The New Yorker and found that there had been no complaints about me, no issues,” Toobin said. “Above all, I am sorry to my wife and family, I am sorry to everyone on the Zoom call, I am sorry to my former colleagues at The New Yorker, I am sorry to my current and fortunately still colleagues at CNN, and I am sorry to everyone who read my work and watched me on CNN and thought I was a better person than this,” Toobin added.Īsked about his departure from the venerable publication, Toobin said, “I loved The New Yorker, I loved working there. Bernard Shaw, CNN's First Chief News Anchor, Dies at 82

#Jeffrey toobin zoom video cnn

[mediagrouplong]

Jeffrey toobin zoom video cnn

JEFFREY TOOBIN ZOOM VIDEO CNN TRIAL

On October 19, 2020, Toobin was suspended from The New Yorker after he masturbated on camera during a Zoom video call between New Yorker and WNYC radio staffers. On August 12, 2022, Toobin announced via Twitter that he would leave the network after 20 years. In 2021, Toobin's book, A Vast Conspiracy, was adapted into the FX true-crime anthology, Impeachment: American Crime Story. In 2020, he authored True Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Investigation of Donald Trump, which is described as a condensation of evidence against the character and presidency of Donald Trump as if he were on trial.

JEFFREY TOOBIN ZOOM VIDEO CNN TRIAL

American Heiress: The Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst came out in 2016. His next book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, was published in 2012. His book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2007) received awards from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Toobin speaking about the Supreme Court at the John J. In 2003, he secured the first interview with Martha Stewart about the insider trading charges against her. Toobin joined CNN in 2002, as a legal analyst. He received a 2000 Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elián González custody saga. Simpson civil case, and prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton. Toobin provided analysis of Michael Jackson's 2005 child molestation trial, the O. Simpson's criminal trial planned to accuse Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence. In 1994, Toobin broke the story in The New Yorker that the legal team in O. Toobin has provided broadcast legal analysis on many high-profile cases. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, where he had gone to work after working for Walsh and abandoned "the practice of law." He started working in 1993 at The New Yorker and became a television legal analyst for ABC in 1996. Accordingly, the Circuit Court vacated the lower court's decision and ordered the dismissal of the case. The book was published before Walsh's appeal could be decided, mooting the case. Keenan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote an opinion that Toobin and his publisher had the right to release this book. Toobin went to court to affirm his right to publish. Oliver North, about his work in the Office of Independent Counsel, to which Walsh objected. Toobin wrote a book, Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States v. He next served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn. After passing the bar, he worked as a law clerk to a federal judge and then as an associate counsel for Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh during the Iran–Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial. Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic while a law student. Toobin promoting his book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court at the 2007 Texas Book Festival While there, he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was classmates with Elena Kagan and graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. Toobin graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American history and literature and was awarded a Harry S. He covered sports for The Harvard Crimson, where his column was titled "Inner Toobin". He attended Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, and then Harvard College for undergraduate studies. His younger brother, Mark, born in 1967 with Down syndrome, lived apart from the family. Toobin was born to a Jewish-American family in New York City in 1960, a son of Marlene Sanders, former ABC News and CBS News correspondent, and Jerome Toobin, a news broadcasting producer.

#Jeffrey toobin zoom video cnn

[larkandkatydid]

🎶🎶When You're Living in Amerrrrricaaaa at the End of the Millennnnniuuuumm🎶🎶: My favorite books about life in late 20th century America, with an emphasis on how the conversative turn in American politics affected lives on the margins: Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy metal suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz* , etc:

(descriptions under the cut)

Rick Perlstein, Reaganland: America’s Right Turn. This is where you start. And honestly, the Reaganland Quartet, which this is the last volume of, is the Great Epic Fantasy of actual 20th century history.

Sarah Schulman, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT-UP New York 1987-1993. This book had a minute and then just faded from public discourse, which makes me so unbelievably sad. I know it’s long, but it’s riveting and energizing. This should be the book that We All Read and everyone peer pressures everyone else to read.

Kathleen Bellew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Another foundational classic about how the post-Vietnam War militarization of the white power movement led to the Oklahoma City bombing. It's also really good context for a lot of the great works that have come out recently about Waco. Also you can read this book instead of swallowing your dignity and giving zoom-masturbator Jeffrey Toobin your money.

Donovan X Ramsey, When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era. This could very well be the best book that came out this year, just a beautiful, empathetic, humanist view of the crack epidemic that perfectly balances the broader context with oral history.

Anna Lowensapt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: This is a weirder choice, but I think it aligns well with alot of the other topics on this list: the consequences of the Vietnam War, the economic collapse in the Pacific Northwest, a new kind of underclass in the global capitalist system...but about mushrooms.

Donna Gaines, Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead End Kids. This is a journalistic work written in the 1980s but I think the social panic about (white) teenage suicide, heavy metal, satanism, etc is something that has gotten somewhat forgotten in histories of the 1980s. One thing that feels deeply Of that Time is how the end of the cold war made it harder for working class teenagers to "just" join the military.

Jason LaPerle, American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare: Another deeply empathetic portrait of three women in Milwaukee and how the Clinton welfare reforms affected their lives.

Susan Faldo, Backlash. Look, you really do have to read this classic 1980s feminist brick. You do. It's infurirating and important and pretty fun too.

Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster: Mike Davis is the grim, communist Joan Didion; I love him and miss him. Davis also co-wrote a massive history of Los Angeles in the 1960s that I really recommend and an extremely non-massive history of the car bomb that I recommend above all.

[cmesinic]

Everyone should be blasting Uncle Thomas, and his wife should be in prison.

#cmesin

[arcticdementor]

Jeffrey Toobin, the CNN legal analyst best known for getting fired by the New Yorker after masturbating on a Zoom call with colleagues, expressed concern Monday that a forthcoming Supreme Court ruling could limit his right to bribe a mistress to terminate her pregnancy.

"What this means is that a constitutional right that [individuals with a uterus] have had in this country for 50 years, pushing three generations, is gone. It is gone overnight, and it is now up to the politicians," Toobin said after Politico published a leaked opinion draft suggesting the Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights decision. "This is a constitutional earthquake if it stands."

Toobin previously argued that state laws banning abortion after six weeks were unfair to married men seeking to pressure their much younger mistresses to end the pregnancy. The CNN legal analyst found himself in a similar situation years ago as the result of a prolonged extramarital affair with Casey Greenfield, the twenty-something daughter of Toobin's then-colleague Jeff Greenfield.

After knocking up his mistress in 2008, Toobin "questioned the paternity, balked at submitting to a test, and vowed to take no responsibility for a baby he wasn't sure was his," according to the New York Times. (It was.) He also offered Greenfield "money if she'd have an abortion," a source told the New York Daily News. Another source claimed that "when Casey wouldn't have an abortion, Jeff told her she was going to regret it, that she shouldn't expect any help from him."

Greenfield emailed Toobin after giving birth to his son, but he didn't reply. She was ultimately forced to sue for child support. Toobin eventually complied under threat of legal action. "[Toobin] said he was going to leave his wife for her," a knowledgeable source told the Daily News in 2010. "But, by then, Casey had begun to distrust him. She suspected he had several other mistresses."

FACT CHECK: The leaked Supreme Court opinion, if it stands, would have no bearing on existing state abortion laws. In 2019, for example, legislators in Toobin's home state of New York passed the Reproductive Health Act, which explicitly legalized abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, and implicitly legalized the procedure beyond that timeframe. Toobin would still be free to bang his coworkers' daughters and pressure them to get abortions.

#andrew stiles #washington free beacon #jeffrey toobin #cnn #dobbs leak

[deadpresidents]

Could you recommend books on the Supreme Court? I honestly didn’t think there were any.

There are countless numbers of books about the Supreme Court, so it really depends on what exactly you're interested in reading about, whether that might be a general history of the Court itself, biographies of the most influential justices, landmark cases, and so on.

By no means is this a complete list, but here's some suggestions that I can recommend:

GENERAL HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT •A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution by Peter Irons (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Nine Scorpions in a Bottle: Great Judges and Cases of the Supreme Court by Max Lerner and edited by Richard Cummings (BOOK) •The Supreme Court by William H. Rehnquist (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) -- This history of the Court is especially interesting because it was written by the incumbent Chief Justice. •The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

BOOKS ABOUT SPECIFIC JUSTICES OR COURTS •The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Leaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the End by David N. Atkinson (BOOK) -- A unique book about Justices at the end of their time on the Court and how they ultimately left the Court. Most of them died in office because the Court is a lifetime appointment, but the book looks at how some Justices held on to their seats and remained on the bench despite failing health or faltering cognitive abilities. •First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Evan Thomas (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Sisters In Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) -- An excellent dual biography about the first two women ever appointed to the Supreme Court and the impact they had on American law. •The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) -- The legendary journalist from the Washington Post gives the Woodward treatment to the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. •The Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) -- The remarkable life of Thurgood Marshall, who was already a legendary figure in the annals of American justice as a civil rights lawyer who successfully argued the case the led to the Supreme Court striking down Brown v. the Board of Education. Marshall's place in history became even more important when President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated him as the first-ever Black Supreme Court Justice. •Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir by John Paul Stevens (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) -- This is probably my favorite of the recommendations. John Paul Stevens, the third longest-serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court, writes about the five Chief Justices (Fred Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren E. Burger, William H. Rehnquist, and John Roberts) that he worked for or with throughout his long career, beginning as a law clerk under Chief Justice Vinson and eventually serving as Associate Justice alongside Chief Justice Burger, Chief Justice Rehnquist, and Chief Justice Roberts.

BOOKS ABOUT JOHN MARSHALL (Longest-serving Chief Justice of the United States and arguably the most important judge in American history) •John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation by Harlow Giles Unger (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times by Joel Richard Paul (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court by Richard Brookhiser (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

I also strongly recommend checking out James F. Simon's books about the Supreme Court and the Presidency, which focus on the impact that the Court and the Chief Justices at the time had on specific Presidential Administrations. These are all written by James F. Simon: •Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal (BOOK | KINDLE)

#History #Supreme Court #Supreme Court History #Books #Book Suggestions #Book Recommendations #Supreme Court Books #Judiciary #Judicial Branch #Chief Justice of the United States #Chief Justices #John Paul Stevens #John Marshall #James F. Simon #Thurgood Marshall #William H. Rehnquist #Sandra Day O'Connor #Ruth Bader Ginsburg #RBG

[nodynasty4us]

In oral argument today, Justice [Clarence] Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that’s because his wife was part of the conspiracy. What a disgrace that he’s sitting on this case

attorney Jeffrey Toobin, quoted in The New Civil Rights Movement

#clarence thomas #insurrection #conflict of interest