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The controversial Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling will be overturned if John McCain is elected president, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told a Baton Rouge audience Friday. “It’s gone,” Toobin, also a legal affairs staff writer at The New Yorker, said after giving a speech about the U.S. Supreme Court at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center. “Maybe not during his first year or second year, but it will be overturned,” Toobin said of the possible election of McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and a U.S. senator for Arizona. Toobin said overturning the case won’t mean all 50 states...

A trio of moderate U.S. Supreme Court justices will likely leave the court soon after President Bush leaves office, according to the author of a just-published insider's look at the Supremes. In an interview, Jeffrey Toobin, author of "The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court" (Doubleday), identified the probable retirees as Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Toobin gives a detailed account of how the high court has evolved in the past 20 years. The core of the book, however, is its reporting of a campaign by movement conservatives to gain control of...

(Get ready for the BIG comedy Webcast starting September 10. No, this doesn't involve ol' PJ talking into a mike. This is a project involving MANY. Get your political humor in digestible chunks twice weekly on the Web.) Perhaps the biggest MISTAKE of the first George Bush was nominating David Souter to the Supreme Court. At the time, everyone said that Souter's views were a complete mystery. Well, he hid them well at the time for a reason. As has been revealed in subsequent years on the Supreme Court, he is an out and out liberal. However, we can...

In the fall of 1998, just as the House impeachment hearings on Clinton were gearing up, White House aide Sidney Blumenthal was contacted by Jeffrey Toobin, a former colleague from The New Yorker. Toobin was trolling for sexual dirt on House Judiciary Committee chair Henry Hyde. As it happened, Blumenthal didn't have much. But he confided that his mother had once worked in a secretarial pool in Chicago in the 1940s, and Hyde, then a Chicago area lawyer, had had a "reputation"—apparently, all the women had "avoided his office." The details of this "reputation" didn't become known until a few...

RUSH: This next story, folks, is just juicy. Now, where was I yesterday? I had to go to the doctor. I had a follow-up appointment. Up until yesterday, I had eaten maybe two -- well, in ten days I had eaten maybe two bananas and a couple of saltine crackers, and the rest of it was, you know, protein shakes and stuff. So I had to go to the doctor yesterday. I have a clean bill of health, everything is cool. I'm driving home from the doctor and I'm punching around on the satellite radio, and there's really nothing on....