Watch Toobin’s Q&A with Arlington Public School students

Now you can watch professionally edited excerpts of the April 30th Student Q&A with Jeffrey Toobin, online. Or check the APS’ Channel 70 program guide to see when the full program is aired – the next broadcasts will be this coming Friday, May 22nd, at 9pm, and Saturday May 23rd, at 10am.

Watch Jeffrey Toobin’s Author Talk

Thanks to the wonderful people at AVN, we now have the full (and professionally edited) video of Toobin’s Author Talk at Central Auditorium. Check it out – he talks about which Justice might step down next (if only Souter had announced his resignation a few hours earlier…. ), and who President Obama might chose as [...]

Arlington Reads event photos are now on Flickr

Photos from the APS/Arlington Public Library event with Jeffrey Toobin are up now – more to come from the Panel Discussion and Toobin’s Author Talk. All photo credits should read: “Photo courtesy of Arlington Public Library.”

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 [...]

How was Toobin?

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

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 [...]

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, [...]

Toobin on Roland Burris

Jeffrey Toobin’s most recent article in The New Yorker is a profile of Illinois’ junior Senator: Roland Burris still occupies temporary office space in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in a suite far from the floor of the United States Senate, so when the buzzer signalling an imminent vote interrupted his lunch the other day, [...]

A letter from Library Director Diane Kresh

Hello Arlington Readers, What better time than now to take a look at that tradition-bound, mysterious group of nine very powerful people known as the United States Supreme Court? With a new president promising “change” and a number of Court vacancies likely, Arlington Reads 2009 will explore the context of headlines soon-to-come through this year’s [...]