Jeffrey Toobin Quotes
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.
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.
My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.
It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.
Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.
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.
He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.
Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.
He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.
He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.
The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.