
Toobin went to court to affirm his right to publish. Oliver North, about his work in the Office of Independent Counsel, to which Walsh objected. Toobin wrote a book, Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States v. He next served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then as an associate counsel for Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh during the Iran–Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial. After passing the bar exam, he worked as a law clerk to U.S. Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic while a law student. Toobin promoting his book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court at the 2007 Texas Book Festival He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was classmates with Elena Kagan and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Toobin graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American history and literature and was awarded a Harry S. He covered sports for The Harvard Crimson, where his column was titled "Inner Toobin". He attended Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, and then Harvard College for undergraduate studies. His younger brother, Mark, born in 1967 with Down syndrome, lived apart from the family. Love all my former colleagues.Toobin was born to a Jewish-American family in New York City in 1960, a son of Marlene Sanders, former ABC News and CBS News correspondent, and Jerome Toobin, a news broadcasting producer. Was great to spend my last day on air with pals Wolf, Anderson and Don. But the departure still doesn’t spell the end of Toobin’s career, with his book about the Oklahoma City bombing due from Simon & Schuster in 2023.įriends, I’ve decided that, after 20 years, I’m leaving after my vacation.

Per the Wrap, viewers were recently mad that, given the man’s own understanding of workplace norms, Toobin expressed outrage over the leaking of the Supreme Court opinion overturning abortion rights.

How poetic that it ends with him getting himself off - the network, that is. Now, over a year later, Toobin announced on Twitter (where, curiously, he still has a New Yorker cartoon avatar) that he’s leaving his CNN job after 20 years. (And in case you forgot, that was a thing that happened during the hell-depths of 2020!) The New Yorker may have fired its longtime legal journalist after he masturbated on video during a work Zoom call, but Toobin was welcomed back to CNN after a nearly eight-month suspension to continue working as the network’s chief legal analyst. In case you forgot, Jeffrey Toobin still kept one of his jobs after his notorious “Zoom dick incident” in 2020.
