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. [...]

At the risk of angering the Court, who would you like to see added to the bench?

We’ve read that media speculation over Ginsburg possibly retiring makes the Court grumpy, but how can we help but think about it? And we’re not alone.  This morning on WashingtonPost.com, Slate senior editors Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick held an online discussion on “how President Obama’s use of the courts will compare with his predecessor’s.” [...]

Podcast of Toobin interview from 01/22/09

Toobin – and his mother Marlene Sanders, who is also a journalist and covered the 1965 inauguration of Lyndon B Johnson – were interviewed together yesterday on mediabistro.com.   You can listen to a podcast of the interview, which includes Sanders discussing her “motherly indignation” over the amount of airtime Toobin received Tuesday, as well as [...]