Jeffrey Toobin: Full Court Press

CNN's Senior Legal Analyst, Jeffrey Toobin participated in a panel discussion at Princeton University last month. Town Topics posted an article about the event:

On a less amusing note, Mr. Toobin cast a harsh eye on some of newly-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayer’s responses during her confirmation hearings. “Saying ‘I follow the law’ was an insult to our intelligence,” he observed. “Antonin Scalia follows the law and Ruth Bader Ginsburg follows the law, but their judicial philosophies aren’t the same.”

Mr. Toobin suggested that he and his colleagues should do their best “to uncover the political decisions of the Supreme Court,” saying that it was a mistake to camouflage cases relating to issues like abortion and university admission “in a gauze of law.”

... to read the full article: Several Members of the Media Discuss Difficulties in Covering the Supreme Court

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