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"Corporations Are People, Too: Jeffrey Toobin plays fast and loose in his assault on Citizens United." Law professor Richard A. Epstein has this essay online today at the "Defining Ideas" site of the Hoover Institution....  

Evan Wolfson, the founder and president of Freedom to Marry, a leading advocacy group for same-sex marriage, found out some time ago that he would be receiving a “medal of distinction” at the Barnard College commencement this year. Then, a few weeks before the ceremony, he learned . . . (Subscription required.)  

When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest importance. The issue before the Justices was a narrow one. The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law prohibited corporations from running television commercials for or against . . .  

    Sent to you by Karl via Google Reader:     Jeffrey Toobin on Citizens United via The Volokh Conspiracy by Jonathan H. Adler on 5/14/12 (Jonathan H. Adler) The latest New Yorker has an extensive excerpt of Jeffrey Toobin's forthcoming book, The Oath: The Obama White House vs. the Supreme Court, focusing on the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The story, "Money Unlimited: How Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the...  

Although thousands of articles and opinion pieces have been published about the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v FEC, this article is noteworthy. It is by Jeffrey Toobin and appears in The New Yorker. As is traditional for that magazine, the article is very long (ten pages on a computer) and contains [...]  

Ted Olson, initially advanced. As White asks: Given Toobin’s inability of accurately handling straightforward, easily confirmable facts, why should anyone take at face value Toobin’s description of the Justices’ private discussions, and their draft ...  

FEC, which affirmed a corporation's First Amendment right to spend money on independent speech on political issues, even when that speech criticizes candidates for office. According to Toobin's account—styled as a behind the scenes exposé—Chief ...  

The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin has a long essay purporting to establish, as the essay’s subtitle puts it, “how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United [v. FEC] decision”—the January 2010 ruling that struck down a ...  

It’s well known by now that Donald Verrilli, Jr., the Solicitor General, had an off day at the Supreme Court last Tuesday, when he was called on to defend the constitutionality of the individual mandate, the part of the Affordable Care Act which requires people to buy health . . .  

Ed Whelan charges the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin with spinning the history of the First Amendment campaign regulation case [first, second, followup] Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSBlog, while sympathetic to Toobin’s overall project, also takes issue with him at numerous points. More: Adam White, Weekly Standard. Tweet Tags: campaign regulation, Supreme CourtToobin on Citizens United is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal...  

A quick look at the week that was in the world of political dark money... How Citizens United went down: The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin has a riveting behind-the-scenes story of how the Roberts court decided the landmark Citizens United case. Toobin contends that Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated a sweeping reinterpretation of decades of campaign-finance laws while keeping his fingerprints off the final opinion (written by Justice...  

The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin this week revealed  juicy bits from the Supreme Court’s deliberations as it considered Citizens United, the thunderous case in which the court allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums on candidate elections, paving the way for big-spending super PACs. Toobin told of a secret draft Citizens United dissent by Justice David Souter that has never been released—a draft that Souter, who has since...  

Among various other flaws, Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker commentary on last week’s oral arguments contains this remarkably confused passage (emphasis added): The questions from the quartet of [Anthony] Kennedy, John G. Roberts, Jr., Antonin Scalia, and Samuel A. Alito, Jr., amounted to a catalogue of complaints about the Affordable Care Act. . . . In particular, they appeared to regard the law as scandalously cruel to one party in the debate...  

(Jonathan H. Adler) Adam White finds Jeffrey Toobin re-writing history in his much discussed New Yorker article on Citizens United. As Toobin set up the story, Citizens United was a little case, involving a “narrow” statutory question. According to Toobin’s New Yorker article, “There did not see to be a lot riding on the outcome.” White finds Toobin’s [...]  

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's Jeff Toobin, by the way. He's in even worse shape today than he was yesterday. Yesterday was a "train wreck", today it's a "plane wreck." He was on CNN. They didn't put him on with Wolf Blitzer. I think Wolf needed smelling salts after yesterday. So they put him on with Don Lemon, another anchor, who said, "You've been referring to the health care argument at the Supreme Court as a 'plane wreck,' possibly now...  

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The media is beside itself over the government's performance at the Supreme Court yesterday on the Arizona immigration law. We've got audio sound bites. Jeffrey Toobin, somebody get him away from high places. Somebody take the belt off of his slacks. Jeffrey Toobin is beside himself. He thinks they're gonna lose the health care thing, and he thinks that this debacle yesterday on the Arizona immigration law hurts. These...  

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin’s recent New Yorker article about Chief Justice John Roberts’ influence in shaping the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has gotten some pushback from another prominent court commentator, Tom Goldstein. A veteran Supreme Court litigator, Goldstein suggests in a post at SCOTUSblog, which he founded, that “the facts reported by Toobin don’t seem [...]  

Updates Below News from today’s hearings on Obamacare at the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) indicate Obamacare took a pounding.  CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin was especially shaken: According to CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, the arguments were “a train wreck for the Obama administration.” “This law looks like it’s going to be struck down. [...]  

In the New Yorker, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin peers behind closed chamber doors  to give a detailed and compelling account of the maneuvering behind the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling. His conclusion: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. (photo) personally “orchestrated” the campaign finance decision handed down in 2010. From a case of “modest importance” when [...]  

Jeffrey Toobin, senior legal analyst at CNN, walked out of the Supreme Court on March 27 following oral arguments on the reform law’s individual mandate, and the White House could not have liked what he said: “I think this law is in grave, grave trouble.”  

Jeffrey Toobin writes in the current issue of The New Yorker about Money Unlimited: how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision. Toobin's article explains how Roberts, by having the case reargued, expanded the scope ...  

I’m shocked. Shocked, I say: CNN’s legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin reports that the court’s conservative wing appeared skeptical of the Obama administration’s arguments in favor of the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act. “This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks like it’s going to be struck down,” Toobin [...]  

After today’s oral arguments, the consensus among Supreme Court watchers is that the individual mandate is in trouble. CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin called the arguments “a train wreck for the Obama administration.” “This law looks like it’s going to be struck down,” Toobin said. “I’m telling you, all of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong.”Keep reading this post . . .  

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Tuesday explained that special prosecutor Angela Corey in Florida may want to arrest George Zimmerman now that his lawyers have quit. During a press conference on Tuesday, Attorneys Craig Sonner and Hal Uhri ...  

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Here’s a CNN discussion on the significance of the charges brought against neighborhood watch commander George Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon Martin, armed with Skittles and an iced tea: And then there’s the predictable, increasingly tiresome and trite ...  

And with that hyperbolic instant reaction, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin prejudiced media coverage of ... and all they're regulating is how you pay for it." At another point, Michael Carvin, a lawyer opposing Obamacare, argued that the individual ...  

A top legal analyst predicted Tuesday that the Obama administration's healthcare reform legislation seemed likely to be struck down by the Supreme Court. Jeffrey Toobin, a lawyer and legal analyst, who writes about legal topics for The New Yorker said the law looked to be in "trouble." He called it a "trainwreck for the Obama administration." "This law looks like it's going to be struck down. I'm telling you, all of the predictions, including...  

The questions from the quartet of Kennedy, John G. Roberts, Jr., Antonin Scalia, and Samuel A. Alito, Jr., amounted to a catalogue of complaints about the Affordable Care Act. (Clarence Thomas, their silent ally, presumably was with them in spirit.)  

Via Sam Seder and the Majority Report, we're pointed to this excellent commentary by Chris Hayes on his new Up With Chris show. It's short, tight, and puts this momentous decision is good historical context. Watch:Ah yes, the social contract; something we've been on about as well. Seder also points us to this comment by Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker. Very smart. According to Toobin, there's 70 years of settled law at stake (my emphasis and...  

(Jonathan H. Adler) In a recent column, Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker criticized Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for a footnote in his Seven-Sky v. Holder opinion noting that “the President may decline to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the President deems the statute unconstitutional, even if [...]  

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took aim at CNN's Jeffrey Toobin on Tuesday for Toobin's pessimistic words about the future of the Obama administration's health care law. Toobin, one of the most prominent legal analysts around, drew widespread ...  

My colleage Manu Raju reports on the Senate Majority Leader's response to CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who said today's Supreme Court hearings had been a "train wreck" for the Obama administration: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thinks Democrats ...  

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) who spearheaded the health care reforms in the U.S. Senate, reacted to the remarks of CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin yesterday after Toobin called the hearings a “train wreck” and saying that the health ...  

CNN's Jeffrey Toobin sounded alarm bells about the future of ... Toobin, who also writes for The New Yorker, said that Solicitor General David Verrilli had been outmatched by Paul Clement, the former Solicitor General representing the 26 states ...  

Jeff Toobin creates a Twitter account ... a.m. Bloomberg Businessweek Managing Editor and former Wall Street Journal legal affairs reporter Paul Barrett writes undated article called “The Toobin Factor,” cautions us not to “read too ...  

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took aim at CNN's Jeffrey Toobin on Wednesday for Toobin's pessimistic words about the future of the Obama administration's health care law. Toobin, one of the most prominent legal analysts around, drew ...  

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seems to have made a career out of complaining.  He has been Senate Majority Leader for more than 7 years and all he seems to do is complain.  This time his complaining brings him to  CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin ...  

CNN's Jeffrey Toobin sounded alarm bells about the future of the Obama administration's health care law on Tuesday. The Supreme Court held its second day of hearings about the constitutionality of the law, and Toobin was blunt about how the ...  

(David Bernstein) “This law looks like it’s going to be struck down. I’m telling you, all of the predictions, including mine [but not Randy's, Ilya's, Jonathan's or mine!], that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong,” Toobin said Tuesday on CNN. “I think this law is in grave, grave trouble.” Toobin may [...]  

Just as I was going to click Publish, I noticed this top story at Politico.com — “Jeffrey Toobin: Judges ‘deranged’ by Obama hatred.” — so I tucked the original post below the fold. We know that Jeffrey Toobin, who also writes for The New Yorker, is liberal but I didn’t expect Toobin to defend Obama’s [...]  

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, likely ruining the White House's day. It's a safe bet that the White House is none too pleased with CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who called today's Supreme Court hearings "a train wreck for the Obama administration."  

Tuesday's announcement by two lawyers that they're no longer representing George Zimmerman was a "bizarre episode" that might prompt a special prosecutor to move up her decision on whether to arrest him, CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin ...  

Jeffrey Toobin tells TPM he's not backing off his prediction of a "train wreck" for the Obama administration when the Supreme Court issues its decision on the health care law. Said Toobin: "I'm not wild about being so far out on a limb, but all I can do is call it the way I see it, and I did." If he's correct, Toobin's forthcoming book, The Oath: The Obama White House vs. the Supreme Court, could be very timely indeed.  

Hindsight hasn't changed Jeffrey Toobin's mind. A week after oral arguments led him to predict that the Supreme Court will strike down a key piece of President Obama's health care law, the respected legal commentator stands by his gloomy forecast, and in an interview explained his reasoning in full detail.  

In particular, Reid was asked about legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin's prediction that the law is poised to be struck down. "I'm sure [Toobin] is trying to sell some words that he distributes around," Reid said. "I wouldn't bet on this, but I'll bet I've been ...  

Wednesday was the last day of the Affordable Care Act historic argument before the Supreme Court and reactions are mixed. CNN legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin, speaking on the days proceedings concluded that "the last three days were a disaster for...  

A top legal analyst predicted Tuesday that the Obama administration’s healthcare reform legislation seemed likely to be struck down by the Supreme Court. Jeffrey Toobin, a lawyer and legal analyst, who writes about legal topics for The New Yorker said the law looked to be in “trouble.” He called it a “trainwreck for the Obama administration.” “This [...]‘’  

CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin, typically a liberal-leaning legal commentator, is pessimistic about the future of Obamacare, especially after the Obama administration’s poor showing in the oral arguments. What also interests me is, after the verdict this summer, is how the outcome will affect the presidential campaign this coming fall. Here’s another report by Toobin:  

After another round of Supreme Court questions, Jeffrey Toobin told CNN the fate of President Obama's health care law looks even worse. Said Toobin: "This still looks like a train wreck for the Obama Administration, and it may also be a plane wreck. This entire law is now in serious trouble. It also seems that the individual mandate is doomed. I mean, Anthony Kennedy spent much of this morning talking about if we strike down the individual...  

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Grab sound bite two before we get to sound bites 23 and 24. This is last night. We'll do a little timeline here involving Jeff Toobin. Last night on Charlie Rose, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin -- who, by the way, for those of you old enough to remember, is the son of former NBC News reporter Marlene Sanders. He wrote a big book after the O.J. trial, and he's been at CNN for quite a while. And Charlie Rose said...  

I have to say I had the same reaction as Harry Reid after watching CNN's Jeffrey Toobin's almost giddy reporting on Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments. Toobin was over the top, not only in his analysis, but in his gratuitous views on the ...  

Jeffrey Toobin was railing against the three-judge panel on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court that had made the Justice Department write a three page memo about the Obama administration's take on judicial review. Toobin called the act a "disgrace."  

Reid reacted to CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin’s remark that the healthcare law “looks like it’s going to be struck down” because of the tenor of the morning’s hearing. Toobin said earlier in the day that the 2010 healthcare reform law ...  

“Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court” is the title of the lectures at Montgomery Women’s Club Town Hall this month. Jeffrey Toobin is an expert on the law, the media and politics. Toobin is a senior analyst for CNN ...  

Call it The Faceplant Heard ‘Round The Nation.  CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin ... called the first half of oral arguments on the issue “a train wreck for the Obama administration,” and openly predicted that the court would overturn ...  

The consensus from reporters and legal experts scampering out of the Supreme Court as today's oral arguments wrapped up a few minutes ago is that the mandate is, in the words of Jeffrey Toobin, in "grave trouble." Toobin also observed...  

Greenfield -- A pedestrian was killed in an accident on U.S. 40 east of Greenfield. The accident occurred just before 6 a.m. near the intersection of U.S. 40 and County Road 600 East. Lt. Jeff Rasche, accident investigator for the Hancock County ...  

GREENFIELD – Township officials said they are once again ... Palombo said he would call state Sen. Jeff Van Drew Tuesday. Palombo said he spoke to state officials Monday and was told Upper Township would receive a $150,000 grant to pave Ocean Road.  

A pedestrian was killed in an accident on U.S. 40 east of Greenfield. The accident occurred just before 6 a.m. near the U.S. 40 and County Road 600 East intersection, in a rural area about 2 miles east of Greenfield. Lt. Jeff Rasche, accident ...  

in a rural area about 2 miles east of Greenfield. Lt. Jeff Rasche, accident investigator for the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department, said a 1999 Cadillac Escalade sport-utility vehicle was traveling west in the left lane of U.S. 40 when it ...  

Jeffrey Toobin says the Supreme Court's hearing on health care reform is not just about healh care for 30 million Americans--it's about the president's reelection bid  

Jeffrey Toobin discusses a federal court's request that the Justice Dept explain Obama's SCOTUS health care comments.  

Jeffrey Toobin says the Obama administration is still having trouble making its case in Supreme Court arguments.  

CNN's Jeffrey Toobin discuss yesterday's health care hearing and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli's performance.  

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin says Supreme Court justices were at odds during debate over the health care law.  

As Supreme Court arguments conclude, Jeffrey Toobin says it was a tough three days for the Obama administration.