Jeff Toobin (Harvard College '82, Harvard Law '86.)
CNN Worldwide senior analyst and author of The Oath, The Obama White House vs. the Supreme Court
Please join us for a talk, reading, and book signing by Jeff Toobin (Harvard College '82, Harvard Law '86.)
Mr. Toobin is a CNN legal and political analyst, a writer for The New Yorker, and a prolific author on law and the Supreme Court. (Mr. Toobin's recent book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, received an award from Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
Mr. Toobin will be reading from his newest book (to be released on Sept. 18) "The Oath, The Obama White House vs. the Supreme Court"---a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama Administration.
The event is Tuesday Sept. 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the Carter Center Day Chapel and is being co-sponsored by the Harvard Club of Georgia.
Date:
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
Time:
7:00 pm
Location:
Carter Center Day Chapel
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30307
Admission:
No Cost but please use our Quick RSVP to let us know who's coming.
Bio:
Early life and education
Toobin was born in New York City,[3] the son of former ABC News and CBS News correspondent Marlene Sanders, and news broadcasting producer Jerome Toobin. He attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, in New York City and attended Harvard College where he covered sports for The Harvard Crimson, using the column name "Inner Toobin." He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982 and earned a Truman Scholarship. He graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude with a Juris Doctor degree in 1986, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Career
Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic as a law student. He went on to become a law clerk to a federal judge and work as an associate counsel to Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh during the Iran-Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial, before becoming an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn.[4] He then took up his post in 1993 at The New Yorker, and became the first television legal analyst in 1994, at ABC.
He currently is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a senior analyst for CNN since 2002, and the author of five books. Toobin's latest book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, has received awards from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.[5]
In 1994, Toobin broke the story in The New Yorker that the O. J. Simpson legal team planned on accusing Mark Furhman of planting evidence and playing "the race card."[5] In 2003, he secured the first interview with Martha Stewart in regards to the charges against her for insider trading.[6]
Toobin has provided broadcast legal analysis on many high-profile cases, including Michael Jackson, the O.J. Simpson civil trial and the Starr investigation of President Clinton. He received a 2000 Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elián González custody saga.
Toobin is a longtime friend of Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan, having met her while the two were students at Harvard Law School.[7] He has described Chief Justice John Roberts as "very, very conservative."[8] Regarding Justice Clarence Thomas, Toobin has said that Thomas' legal views were "highly unusual and extreme", called him "a nut," and said that he was "furious all the time."[9] [10]
In March 2009, Politico revealed that Toobin was a member of the private discussion group JournoList, where "several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics" "talked stories and compared notes."[11][12]
Personal life
In 1986, he married Amy B. McIntosh. He met Amy while they worked at the Harvard Crimson newspaper. She is a 1980 Harvard graduate.[13] They have two children.
Bibliography
Books
The Oath, The Obama White House vs. the Supreme Court (2012)
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2007) winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize[14]
Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election (2001)
A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (2000)
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson (1997)
Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case—United States v. Oliver North (1992)
Articles
Toobin, Jeffrey (12 January 2009). "Profiles: Barney's Great Adventure". The New Yorker 84 (44): 36–47. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_toobin. Retrieved 27 March 2009. Profiles US Representative Barney Frank.
Toobin, Jeffrey (26 March 2012). "The Talk of the Town: Comment: Holding Court". The New Yorker 88 (6): 41-42. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/03/26/120326taco_talk_toobin. Retrieved 4 August 2012. Legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act.