
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. We can certainly cross the private-things crackdown bridge if and when we come to it, but for now this incident seems only to be reiterating the classic, unspoken precedent of never whipping your dick out during office hours in front of those who have to work with you.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.

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Re: Toobin, unless something new comes to light, I feel like “now bosses will be emboldened to crack down on private things you do on the clock” is the more threatening precedent here than “now people will think it’s fine to jerk off at work” Occam’s Razor, the theory that the simplest explanation is often the most likely one, points to the author of this tweet merely wanting the same courtesy extended were he ever caught in a similar moment of bad judgment, a scenario that the tweet suggests is not unlikely. People are fired, made fun of, and arrested for this kind of bad judgment every day. It was really, really, extremely bad judgment. The words “bad judgment” are doing just a Mr.

Although it’s not exactly as broad a coalition as some on Twitter are making it out to be, a faction of people are actually out here trying to both-sides workplace masturbation. Several other writers, however, spoke up afterward. Some, like feminist author Jill Filipovic, merely allowed for the off-chance of an improbable innocent explanation before the other shoe dropped. And he should face the consequences that go with that.īut just as Louis CK has his prominent defenders, so too does Toobin. Although I’m personally inclined to give Toobin the benefit of the doubt that he was merely caught masturbating, and not “doing a Louis CK,” Toobin’s case is the hypothetical in real life. Years ago, when Louis CK’s defenders rose up en masse to argue that their favorite masturbating comedian had done nothing wrong, the easiest rebuttal was: Imagine someone at a regular 9-to-5 job pleasuring himself in front of colleagues by the water cooler. If Toobin truly was glimpsed masturbating by multiple colleagues during a Zoom meeting, how was he not yet officially fired? Inadvertent or, shudder, intentional, it’s impossible to continue a working relationship with someone who has subjected his coworkers to on-camera onanism. Although the jokes continued after the late-afternoon update, they were joined by anger and incredulity.
