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A closed-door meeting of left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was held on January 16, 2003, in Washington, D.C. to consider how to apply international financial pressure through a global tax on the U.S. Bruno Jetin, a representative of ATTAC France, spoke to the gathering and acknowledged in private conversation that his group works hand-in-glove with the French Communist Party and the "Socialist parties on the Left." A representative of the embassy of France in the U.S. was listed as a participant. ATTAC stands for the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens. The International ATTAC Movement...

Attorney General Merrick Garland’s mark on the Justice Department could come down to one case – Donald Trump’s election subversion prosecution that collapsed today under the weight of a long-standing DOJ policy against hauling a sitting president into criminal court. The development will likely hurt Garland’s legacy, according to two political analysts who concluded on Monday that the attorney general’s failure to timely appoint special counsel Jack Smith to investigate Trump’s criminal matter wound up sullying the prosecution. “I also think we need to take a look at how long it took Merrick Garland to appoint Jack Smith,” said CNN...

A new article out from Politico reveals that a select group of lawyers and legal pundits have been working behind the scenes to quash a Trump second term using the media. They've been sharing narratives, honing points, and working together to "intellectually stress-test the arguments facing Trump on his journey through the American legal system." The names of those who have been at these meetings are all too familiar and their tactics mirror those undertaken in 2020 to manipulate media to sway the presidential election in Biden's favor. A group began meeting weekly in 2022, every Friday, on Zoom calls...

Former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that former President Donald Trump has likely violated a gag order with a social media post. Trump quoted Fox News host Jesse Watters on Truth Social posting, “They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury.” Cooper asked, “Is that permissible given the gag order on Trump?”

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced criticism on Tuesday over comments he made during a case focused on the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. "In oral argument today, Justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that's because his wife was part of the conspiracy. What a disgrace that he's sitting on this case," lawyer and former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Thomas made comments on Tuesday as the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case relating to the Capitol riot following the 2020 presidential election with...

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Thursday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that voters will remember President Joe Biden calling Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi “the president of Mexico” in a press conference where he was addressing his age and memory after Special Counsel Robert Hur decided not to charge the president for keeping classified documents. Hur said Biden was an “elderly man with a poor memory.” Toobin said, “Mexico? Mexico? Where did that come from? I mean, that’s the only thing anyone is going to remember from this. You know, he was exonerated here, and I think it’s an easy...

Longtime CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin announced his split with the network late Friday afternoon, only 14 months after CNN welcomed him back following the infamous Zoom incident that tarnished his reputation and embarrassed the network. While Toobin announced that he "decided" to leave CNN, many feel he wasn’t exactly given a choice considering new CNN CEO Chris Licht is thought to be attempting to "tamp down spectacle" and restore the network’s credibility. If anyone brought spectacle to CNN, it was Toobin. The legal pundit was famously caught masturbating during a 2020 Zoom meeting with his New Yorker colleagues and...

"The man whose personal pronouns are “slippery when wet” and whose name became a verb after he was caught on an October 19, 2020, WORK Zoom call with WNYC radio and New Yorker staffers ‘taking a trip to palmdale’, Jeffrey Toobin has quit FakeNewsCNN after two decades of lying about Conservative Republican Patriots in general and years of doing so about President Donald Trump specifically. Some are taking part of his announcement (specifically “Oklahoma City bombing, coming in 2023”) as a threat and with many people in Oklahoma City covering things in tarps it is beginning to resemble the front...

Jeffrey Toobin, the veteran legal analyst and writer who has opined on cases and the courts for CNN since 2002, appears to have offered his last testimony at the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed news outlet.In a letter sent Friday to colleagues, Toobin revealed that he is parting ways with CNN, which has backed him in good times and bad. CNN placed Toobin on leave in the fall of 2020 after he acknowledged exposing himself during a video call with staffers from The New Yorker, where he had been working since 1993. Toobin and the Conde Nast publication cut ties, but CNN...

Jeffrey Toobin resigns from CNN…

Immediately following a Politico report that the U.S. Supreme Court was poised to overturn a decades-old landmark abortion ruling, Roe v. Wade, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin warned how the draft came to light, which was through a leak, would have a lasting impact on the institution. Toobin told CNN host Anderson Cooper the leak was a “shattering experience,” and he was not sure “how or if the institution” will recover.

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Friday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that the lawsuit against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attempting to disqualify her from running for reelection over her comments and tweets surrounding the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 would not be successful. Cooper said, “Do you think the case brought against Greene would be successful?”

Disgraced CNN legal contributor Jeffrey Toobin wrote an opinion article on Tuesday that complained Republicans are winning the “ideological war” at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Toobin, who was caught masturbating on a Zoom call with former colleagues at the New Yorker but returned to CNN after a seven-week suspension, penned an op-ed noting Democrats are allowing Republicans to win the debate over how the constitution should be read. “Conservatives Are Winning the Ideological War at Jackson’s Hearing,” the headline read.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin and CNN Senior Political Correspondent Abby Phillip argued that Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was an attempt to appeal to QAnon followers.

CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Thursday on “The Situation Room” that if former President Donald Trump and his children Ivanka and Don Jr. plead the Fifth when testifying in the civil suit by the state of New York, the jury could draw an “adverse inference.” Anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “Former President Trump and his kids argued that sitting for a deposition would violate, they say, their constitutional rights; this judge certainly disagreed. What do you make of this ruling?”

NEW YORK—Following a slew of sexual misconduct allegations concerning staff, CNN has been forced to take extreme action to repair its image. The interim president has announced that henceforth, all CNN employees must wear chastity belts at all times. "I know everyone wants to sleep with me, Jim Acosta," said Jim Acosta. "But this seems like overkill." "I have never done anything wrong, ever," said Jake Tapper. "I'm not sure why this is necessary." “Desperate times call for desperate measures,” said Brian Stelter sporting his new metal chastity belt. “We take sexual misconduct seriously at CNN, that’s why we have...

Thursday on “CNN Newsroom,” network legal analyst advised that nothing can be done to anybody under the scope of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack who refuses to cooperate. According to Toobin, “it’s too late for the courts” at this point.

KENOSHA, WI—CNN Joined with progressive groups in calling for Judge Bruce Schroeder—who is presiding over the Rittenhouse case—to be removed after an American flag was spotted in his courtroom. "It's clear that this judge cannot be impartial," said CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who was wearing a large trenchcoat and nothing else for some unknown reason. "The American flag is a symbol of oppression and white supremacy. Any judge who would allow that hateful symbol in his courtroom has no business presiding over this important case." Further reports indicated that the Judge is a white male, has a family, and...

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen standing trial for multiple felonies following a shooting in Kenosha, Wis., last year, is fortunate it is not crime in America to "be an idiot." "What kind of idiot 17-year-old gets a giant gun and goes to a riot? He has no license, he has no training, he thinks he's going to scrub graffiti off with his AR-15? I mean, the stupidity of this. What could possibly go wrong? Well a lot went wrong," Toobin said Wednesday during CNN's coverage of the Rittenhouse murder trial, which is taking place this...

Thursday, CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin reacted to the new Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks. Toobin lamented on “New Day” that the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the law to stand, warning that it “effectively” overturns Roe v. Wade. He said the “least” SCOTUS owes everyone is an explanation for their ruling.