“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.”
Jeffrey Toobin“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.”
Jeffrey Toobin“He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.”
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court“The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.”
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court“He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.”
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court“Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.”
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court“He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.”
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme 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.”
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court“In the end, notwithstanding a surreal detour in the 1970s, Patricia led the life she for which she was destined back in Hillsborough. The story of Patricia Hearst, as extraordinary as it once was, had a familiar, even predictable ending. She did not turn into a revolutionary. She turned into her mother.”
Jeffrey Toobin, American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst