Toobin on the next Court appointees

In light of Justice Souter’s announcement last night that he will step down from the Supreme Court, here’s what Jeffrey Toobin said yesterday at the Q&A with Arlington High School students, regarding possible nominees: Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review, and the law review president almost always becomes a clerk for the Supreme Court. But Obama did [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

From BLT: “In Twelfth Night Mock Trial, Malvolio Loses”

This is from a mock trial held in DC last night, and it’s funny, particularly if you like Shakespeare: It was an evening of high farce before the high court at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall in Washington D.C. on Monday night. Three Supreme Court justices and five other federal judges, comprising the [...]

Wajahat Ali interview with Toobin

We just found an interesting interview that Wajahat Ali – an attorney, blogger and writer for the magazine Counterpunch – did with Jeffrey Toobin in March 2008.  Ali describes himself as a Pakistani Muslim American who is neither a terrorist nor a saint. He is a playwright, essayist, humorist, and Attorney at Law, whose work, [...]

March 19th is the birthday of former Chief Justice Earl Warren

From today’s Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keilor: It’s the birthday of the 14th chief justice of the United States, Earl Warren, born in Los Angeles (1891). He grew up in Bakersfield, California, where his father worked for the railroad company. His father was a Norwegian immigrant who was murdered during an armed robbery, and the [...]

New Event: Arlington Reads Panel Discussion

Toni Locy to moderate Arlington Reads panel discussion: The Supreme Beat: A Round Table Discussion of Journalist Who Cover the US Supreme Court. Sunday April 26th, 3:00 pm; Shirlington Library.