How was Toobin?

How did it go?  Did you get to ask a question? Did you enjoy the author talk?

Court news – Souter to retire

Two items tonight- Legal Times reports that Mark Levy, DC lawyer and veteran of 16 Supreme Court arguments, was found dead in his office this morning.  Police are investigating his death as a possible gun related suicide. And, Justice Souter, for whom many of our audience at the Court Journalist Panel Discussion last Sunday professed [...]

Live from W&L high school, with Yorktown on video – Toobin!

Toobin talks about why he wrote The Nine instead of a legal thriller: He says that Rehnquist recognized that the Justices believed what they believed, so he set up the Court so they didn’t have to communicate much in person – ‘good fences make good neighbors’.   They could do everything by memo instead of in person. [...]

Question for Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, will give an author talk tomorrow evening at Central Auditorium, 7pm. What do you want to ask Jeffrey Toobin? Here’s what we’d like to know: What was it like to actually sit down and talk to the Justices?  Did they meet [...]

Covering The Court – live! (now with video)

This was a fantastic panel discussion – the speakers were friendly and funny, and shared a lot of great insight and trivia.  Unfortunately, the discussion moved quickly so there were definitely questions and answers that I missed. Hopefully some of the video clips will help to fill in gaps (we didn’t have a tripod, so [...]

Today at 3….

…I’ll attempt to cover the panel discussion with Toni Locy at Shirlington - a blogger covering a discussion between a bunch of journalists about the Supreme Court.  Maybe I’ll even get some video to post later, if I can get it coordinated.  So if you can’t make it, you may be able to follow in real time.  And if [...]

Author/Illustrator Maira Kalman visits the Court

Check out this fantastic piece from today’s NYTimes blogs, by Maira Kalman:  May It Please The Court.

Analysis of the Court hearing Safford United School District v. Redding

What do you think? Lyle Denniston, of the SCOTUS Blog, wrote a very interesting piece yesterday about the vibe in the Court during the hearing of Safford United School District v. Redding on Tuesday. This is a case about  “public school principals’ authority to conduct personal searches of the youths in their charge,” and Denniston [...]

The Supreme Beat – Sunday 4/26

Don’t miss our next Arlington Reads event, coming up this Sunday, April 26th, 3:00 pm at the Shirlington Branch Library – Covering the Court, the Supreme Beat: A Round Table Discussion of Journalist Who Cover the US Supreme Court. Toni Locy, former reporter for USA today, will moderate a distinguished panel of journalists who cover [...]

Updated Discussion Questions

As promised (although later than promised), here are the questions we used at the book discussion Monday night. #1 How did Jeffrey Toobin organize The Nine to support the statement below? The theme of The Nine is that the conservative movement has been rising through the legal system since the early 80s.  And it was the [...]