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The Nine

Friday, September 21, 2007

CNN legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin conducted extensive interviews with former and current justices of the Supreme Court to write his latest book, The Nine. He reveals how our highest court has been shaped not only by the law, but by the personalities of the men and women who sit on its bench.

Purchase The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court at amazon.com.


Event: Jeffrey Toobin will be speaking with Anderson Cooper
Monday, September 24 at 7 pm
Union Square Barnes & Noble

Weigh in: Are Supreme Court decisions often driven by personal politics?


Comments

  • [1] Chad Harris September 21, 2007 - 10:16AM

    It took you a year to start covering this STORY.

    You missed the boat why?

    What about the black jurors?
  • [2] Russell D'Costa, Esq. from NY September 21, 2007 - 10:30AM

    Can Mr. Toobin comment on the process of becoming one of the Nine's law clerks-who play a BIG (yet widely unknown) role on writing the actual decisions? Becoming a law clerk to a US Supreme Court Justice is an EXTREMELY challenging & highly selective process.

    Because of this, Justice Thomas's recent call for more minority lawyers to become Supreme Court law clerks will undoubtedly go unanswered because of procedural reasons. What a shame...
  • [3] Olivier September 21, 2007 - 10:55AM

    New York Review of Books

    Volume 54, Number 14 · September 27, 2007

    The Supreme Court Phalanx

    By Ronald Dworkin

    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20570
  • [4] ab from nyc September 21, 2007 - 12:02PM

    It's a shame there is no process of removing these fools once thwy are in place. Some of the current batch clearly don't care about law and only care about politics and their idiotic beliefs despite reality and they should be removed for that reason. The Justices should care about law and justice not furthering the agenda of the far-right fascist wing.
  • [5] robert from park slope September 21, 2007 - 12:36PM

    please comment on the "liberals" thinking on last year's Connecticut eminent domain case where they sided with private development while the "conservatives" sided with individual / property rights

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