On October 19, 2020, Toobin was suspended from The New Yorker after he masturbated on camera during a Zoom video call between New Yorker and WNYC radio staffers. On August 12, 2022, Toobin announced via Twitter that he would leave the network after 20 years. In 2021, Toobin's book, A Vast Conspiracy, was adapted into the FX true-crime anthology, Impeachment: American Crime Story. In 2020, he authored True Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Investigation of Donald Trump, which is described as a condensation of evidence against the character and presidency of Donald Trump as if he were on trial.
American Heiress: The Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst came out in 2016. His next book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, was published in 2012. His book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2007) received awards from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Toobin speaking about the Supreme Court at the John J. In 2003, he secured the first interview with Martha Stewart about the insider trading charges against her. Toobin joined CNN in 2002, as a legal analyst. He received a 2000 Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elián González custody saga.
Simpson civil case, and prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton. Toobin provided analysis of Michael Jackson's 2005 child molestation trial, the O. Simpson's criminal trial planned to accuse Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence. In 1994, Toobin broke the story in The New Yorker that the legal team in O. Toobin has provided broadcast legal analysis on many high-profile cases. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, where he had gone to work after working for Walsh and abandoned "the practice of law." He started working in 1993 at The New Yorker and became a television legal analyst for ABC in 1996. Accordingly, the Circuit Court vacated the lower court's decision and ordered the dismissal of the case. The book was published before Walsh's appeal could be decided, mooting the case. Keenan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote an opinion that Toobin and his publisher had the right to release this book. 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. After passing the bar, he worked as a law clerk to a federal judge and then as an associate counsel for Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh during the Iran–Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial. 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 While there, he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was classmates with Elena Kagan and graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. 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. 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.