Did CNN's Jeffrey Toobin just hint at his liberal bias? Toobin told Politico [1]
"I'm not exactly famous for my hatred of the Obama administration," and
added that "If you're [sic] read my books, you know – I don't have a
primetime spot on Fox News."
CNN's senior legal analyst had made headlines for his dire analysis of
ObamaCare's chances in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. He was explaining
to Politico's Dylan Byers that his criticism of the Obama
administration's defense of the bill was probably all the more
noteworthy because he himself is not a big critic of Obama.
Toobin had been previously been quite optimistic about ObamaCare's legal status. Only a few days before he predicted [2] the Supreme Court might uphold the law eight-to-one, arguing [3]
that legal precedent could convince even conservative judges like
Scalia against overturning the individual mandate. He labeled the
opposing argument "really weak [4]."
Just after the health care bill was passed in 2010, Toobin dismissed
the potential legal challenges from the states saying there was
"unlikely to be much merit." He said, specifically of the Florida
attorney general's argument against the law, that "it's unlikely to
succeed."
The CNN analyst drove headlines when, reporting live from the Supreme
Court just after Tuesday's hearing on ObamaCare, he labeled the bill's
defense a "trainwreck" for the Obama administration.
Toobin's gloomy analysis [5]
continued into Wednesday afternoon as he said the "trainwreck" of a
defense "may also be a plane wreck" and added that the demise of the
individual mandate seemed "a foregone conclusion."