94 Quotes by Jeffrey Toobin

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

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.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

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.

There were two kinds of cases before the Supreme Court. There were abortion cases—and there were all the others.Abortion was (and is) the central legal issue before the Court. It defined the judicial philosophies of the justices. It dominated the nomination and confirmation process. It nearly delineated the difference between the national Democratic and Republican parties.