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I grew up, like most people in my generation, watching John Travolta. I was thrilled to meet him.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

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For someone who has been so important to my career, I have had absolutely no interaction with O.J. Simpson one-on-one in my whole life. I've tried many times. I have written him in prison, I've had other contact ... but he never responded, so I have never had a conversation with O.J. Simpson, never met the guy.

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The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

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I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'

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Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

Jeffrey Toobin

I grew up, like most people in my generation, watching John Travolta. I was thrilled to meet him.

Jeffrey Toobin

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

Jeffrey Toobin

For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.

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Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.

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The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.

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Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts.

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