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Jeffrey Toobin

The New Yorker

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What We’ll Never Know About the Trump Pardons

Mounting questions will go unanswered because of a Supreme Court decision shielding presidents from scrutiny.

07.12.2025 2

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

Trump v. James and Maurene Comey

The legal precedent established by Maurene Comey’s case may turn out to be far more consequential than the finding in her father’s.

13.11.2025 5

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

The Unanswered Question From the Biden Autopen Controversy

What happens when a President’s physical or mental decline makes him unfit to continue to serve?

31.10.2025 40

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

The Santos Commutation Is No Joke

More than any other presidential actions, clemencies tell us who presidents are.

21.10.2025 100

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

Adam Schiff, Letitia James and Trump’s Payback Plan

For Mr. Trump, there may be few spoils of victory sweeter than the ordeal that they will soon endure.

14.08.2025 10

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

The Line Trump Crossed by Accusing Obama of Treason

President Trump’s history of intemperate remarks has earned him a perverse kind of immunity; the more outrageous his statement, the faster it is...

25.07.2025 200

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

Revenge, Thy Name Is Emil Bove

Trump wants his people calling the shots. And Bove has proved, above all, that he belongs to the president.

16.07.2025 100

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

For Trump, Investigations Are the Real Punishment

The process is the penalty, and the penalty is the process.

18.06.2025 20

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

When the Supreme Court Spoke With One Voice

The federal judiciary is being forced to confront a fundamental question: What to do when its orders are defied?

24.04.2025 100

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

Pardons and Paybacks Are Trump’s Two Modes of Justice

Only the norms of history and the customs of decency constrain a president — or, as in this case, they don’t.

11.03.2025 50

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

The Courts Offer Democrats Relief for Only So Long

If the president’s defiance continues, the standoff will create the prospect of a constitutional crisis, and it will be the state attorneys general...

14.02.2025 8

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

Trump Just Pardoned Himself

Because presidents exercise such unfettered discretion in granting clemency, these actions provide useful insights into their true character.

23.01.2025 200

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin

Biden’s Pardon for His Son Dishonors the Office

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Jeffrey Toobin Mr. Toobin’s book “The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy” will be published in...

03.12.2024 70

The New York Times

Jeffrey Toobin