Michael Cohen’s Last Days of Freedom
The President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.
The President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker Apr 2019 25min Permalink
How Rudy Giuliani turned into Trump’s clown.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker Apr 2018 30min Permalink
Inside the cases for—and against—his removal from office.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2018 30min Permalink
The connections he made at a 2013 pageant in Russia may have helped give him the Presidency.
Jeffrey Toobin The New Yorker Feb 2018 25min Permalink
A preview of the “nuclear option.”
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker Mar 2005 15min Permalink
A profile of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2016 30min Permalink
A profile of Chief Justice John Roberts.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2009 30min Permalink
How Chief Justice John Roberts pulled off Citizens United.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2012 40min Permalink
Frank rarely smiles, even when he’s being funny. “There are three lies politicians tell,” he told the real-estate group. “The first is ‘We ran against each other but are still good friends.’ That’s never true. The second is ‘I like campaigning.’ Anyone who tells you they like campaigning is either a liar or a sociopath. Then, there’s ‘I hate to say I told you so.’ ” He went on, “Everybody likes to say ‘I told you so.’ I have found personally that it is one of the few pleasures that improves with age. I can say ‘I told you so’ without taking a pill before, during, or after I do it.”
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker Jan 2009 35min Permalink
How mitigation specialists are changing the application of the death penalty:
In Texas, the most prominent mitigation strategist is a lawyer named Danalynn Recer, the executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center. Based in Houston, GRACE has represented defendants in death-penalty cases since 2002. “The idea was to improve the way capital trials were done in Texas, to start an office that would bring the best practices from other places and put them to work here,” Recer said recently. “This is not some unknowable thing. This is not curing cancer. We know how to do this. It is possible to persuade a jury to value someone’s life.”
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2011 20min Permalink
On the combined force of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia, a Tea Party stalwart.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker Aug 2011 35min Permalink
Fred Wilpon, the owner of the hapless New York Mets, had more than $500 million tied up with Bernie Madoff when the Ponzi scheme was exposed. Now he may be forced to sell his beloved ballclub.
Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2011 45min Permalink