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<title><![CDATA[Jeffrey Toobin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15419.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Toobin]]></description><category domain="15419">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas Has Waited 30+ Years for This Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/clarence-thomas-analysis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Justice Clarence Thomas, these are glory days. As Thomas settles into his fourth decade on the Supreme Court, his influence, even his control, is ascendant.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jackson Is Handing Conservatives One Key Victory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/opinions/jackson-hearing-conservative-win-ideological-war-toobin/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin writes that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing demonstrates how conservatives are winning the ideological war over the Constitution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McConnell's Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/03/opinions/supreme-court-mcconnell-toobin/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservative justices pushed through controversially by Sen. Mitch McConnell, are doing what the Trump administration put them on the court to do, writes Jeffrey Toobin. And with issues like abortion on the table as this new court session begins, this Supreme Court could leave a lasting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas Is the New Chief Justice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/21/opinions/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-power-toobin/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Toobin writes that Clarence Thomas, the longest serving justice, will frequently be able to wield the crucial power to decide who writes the majority opinion when the conservative bloc doesn't include Chief Justice John Roberts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harry Reid on the Need to Get Rid of the Filibuster]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The decision by Senate Republicans to jam through the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett in the final days before the election'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'when they refused even to hold hearings on the nomination of Merrick Garland, in 2016'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'has brought the dysfunction and the hypocrisy of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Should Be No Doubt Why Trump Nominated Barrett]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The judge's confirmation would fulfill former Justice Lewis Powell's plan to transform the Supreme Court into a forum friendly to business interests.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Legal Fight Awaiting Us After the Election]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The immediate aftermath of the Presidential election of 2000 has taken on the air of legend. On Election Night, news organizations first called Florida for Vice-President Al Gore'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'then, about two hours later, withdrew the call and, about four hours after that, declared that George W....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Stone Case Shows Why Trump Is Worse Than Nixon]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 21, 1973, President Richard Nixon and John Dean, the White House counsel, conferred in the Oval Office about ways to keep the Watergate scandal from consuming the Administration. The two men weighed the possibility of a pardon or commutation for E. Howard Hunt, one of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roberts Distances Himself From Conservatives]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/john-roberts-dissociates-himself-from-the-trump-mcconnell-legal-project</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The idea that the Chief Justice is dedicated to overturning Roe v. Wade seems fanciful in light of his latest opinion on abortion rights.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Mueller Investigation Failed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/why-the-mueller-investigation-failed</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump's obstructions of justice were broader than those of Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton, and the special counsel's investigation proved it. How come the report didn't say so?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Georgia Primary and the State of Voting Rights]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A favorite parlor game in some circles is to name the worst Supreme Court decision of all time. From the nineteenth century,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Dred Scott v. Sandford, from 1857, is hard to beat, because it decreed that African-Americans could not be full citizens, and helped precipitate the Civil War....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did John Bolton Outfox Himself on His Tell-All Book?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/did-john-bolton-outfox-himself-on-his-own-tell-all-book</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A prepublication-review agreement may help the White House keep the former national-security adviser's book off the market'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or cost Bolton any earnings from it if he decides to publish in defiance of the agreement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Trump's Pardons]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-trouble-with-donald-trumps-pardons</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President's absolution of white-collar criminals who were his personal friends and associates is an exercise in authoritarianism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump's Unlikely Legal Team Will Try to Defend Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-donald-trumps-legal-team-will-try-to-defend-him-at-the-senate-impeachment-trial</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At some level, the President's defenders, including Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz, must know that Trump's conduct is impeachable. That's why the agenda is to block the facts from coming out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Dem Candidates Should Talk About Supreme Court]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Presidential candidates will soon be compelled to talk about what may be the most important issue in the 2020 election: the future of both the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts. A coalition of civil-rights groups has'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' scheduled'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a Presidential forum for February...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump Impeachment Hearings &amp; Justice Scalia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-trump-impeachment-hearings-and-justice-antonin-scalia</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The late Justice made the argument, still popular today, that we should be bound forever to the ideas of the group of eighteenth-century men who framed the Constitution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[William Barr's Wild Misreading of the 1st Amendment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/william-barrs-wild-misreading-of-the-first-amendment</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Historically illiterate, morally obtuse, and willfully misleading, a recent speech by the Attorney General portrays religious people in the United States as beset by a hostile band of secularists.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Ukraine Scandal Has Its Roots in Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/donald-trumps-ukraine-scandal-has-its-roots-in-russia</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Both situations'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' stem from the President's apparent willingness to accept political favors from foreign leaders, and his eagerness to do Putin's bidding.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Humane Legacy of John Paul Stevens]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/the-humane-legacy-of-john-paul-stevens-supreme-court-died</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former Supreme Court Justice, who died on Tuesday, belonged to a vanished tradition on the Court and in American life: moderate Republicanism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House Judiciary Panel Considers the Future of News]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-house-judiciary-committee-considers-antitrust-law-the-tech-giants-and-the-future-of-news</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Google, Facebook, and their cousins Apple and Amazon have grown so vast that they have aroused the ire of the entire political establishment. And they aren't only transforming journalism but also politics, retail, and virtually all commerce.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why McConnell Outmaneuvers Dems on Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-mitch-mcconnell-outmaneuvers-democrats-at-filling-the-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Senate Majority Leader and his party would push through a Republican nominee while blocking a Democratic choice for one main reason: because they can.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Abortion Fight and the Pretense of Precedent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/27/the-abortion-fight-and-the-pretense-of-precedent</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[State legislators have proposed Draconian new laws on the assumption that, when they come before the Supreme Court, they will be used to vanquish Roe v. Wade once and for all.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Constitutional System Is Not Built to Resist Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-constitutional-system-is-not-built-to-resist-trumps-defiance-of-congress</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump is leading a political campaign against the legislative branch, and it calls for a political, not just judicial, response.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michael Cohen's Last&nbsp;Days&nbsp;of Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/michael-cohens-last-days-of-freedom</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These days,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the President's former lawyer, and the fall guy in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' his'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' web'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[William Barr's Choices]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/william-barrs-choices</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since Barr became Attorney General, he has narrowed the range of information about the Mueller report that he says he will allow the public to see.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Quietly Changing the Status of Religion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-court-is-quietly-changing-the-status-of-religion-in-american-life</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent years, conservatives have contrived ways to obtain government money for religious entities, and the Supreme Court has been more sympathetic to the lawyers representing them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew McCabe's Countdown to the Mueller Report]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/andrew-mccabes-countdown-to-the-mueller-report</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his new book, the former acting director of the F.B.I. speaks with bracing directness about what was going on in the Trump-Russia investigation and why it matters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Another Supreme Court Justice Ready to Go?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/ruth-bader-ginsburg-isnt-looking-to-retire-yet-but-is-another-supreme-court-justice-ready-to-go</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With another Supreme Court vacancy, or two, President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s record and influence on the future of the country will look even more secure.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi's Time in the Barrel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/roger-stones-and-jerome-corsis-time-in-the-barrel</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the mismatched operatives matter to Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and to the Mueller investigation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[William Barr &amp; the Crucial Role of the Justice Department]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/william-barr-and-the-crucial-role-of-the-justice-department</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Toobin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nominee told senators that he would protect the work of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, but that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not the Attorney General'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s only job.]]></description>
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