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Jeffrey Toobin

Bylines

Keeping Speech Robust and Free

Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.

by Jeffrey Toobin via New York Review of Books on July 7, 2023
How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Moved the Supreme Court

Despite her path-braking work as a litigator before the Court, she doesn't believe that large-scale social change should come from the courts.

by Jeffrey Toobin via The New Yorker on March 11, 2013

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy

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Gerald Ford signs Richard Nixon's pardon, superimposed over a smiling Nixon.

Blame Gerald Ford for Trump’s Unaccountability

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on February 11, 2025

Aftermath of Oklahoma City bombing.

American Carnage

A new book about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing traces the path from Ronald Reagan’s antigovernment ideology to today’s radicalized right.

by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on July 25, 2023

Illustration of a soldier in a tank battering through a fiery wooden structure.

A Fire Started in Waco. Thirty Years Later, It’s Still Burning.

Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on May 1, 2023

Richard Nixon surrounded by thumbs up emojis.

Hero of 2024: A Half-Century Later, Richard Nixon Was Finally Vindicated

Nixon was quietly vindicated by the Supreme Court in its Trump v. United States. A half-century later, the Supreme Court made clear that he was right all along.

by Dan Friedman via Mother Jones on December 27, 2024

Gerrymandering's Surprising History and Uncertain Future

Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.

via Retro Report on October 18, 2021

Bush v. Gore: How a Recount Dispute Affects Voting Today

The controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election led to sweeping voting reforms, but opened the door to a new set of problems still affecting us.

via Retro Report on October 19, 2020

Newly appointed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor stands in front of the Supreme Court on Sept. 25, 1981, in Washington.

Pro-Choice Advocates Fear That Roe v. Wade Could Be Lost. But It Already Happened.

How “undue burden”—a concept nurtured by anti-abortion groups and championed by the first woman on the Supreme Court—has eroded the right to choose.

by Meaghan Winter via Slate on March 28, 2016

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