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21 May 2014, 4:13 am
Writing for The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie contends that the Court’s “ruling denied the validity of [the plaintiffs’] alienation from the public affairs of their hometown and disparaged their allegations as the mere whining of oversensitive dissidents. [read post]
26 Apr 2019, 3:59 am
At The Economist, Steven Mazie discusses Tuesday’s oral argument in Department of Commerce v. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 4:43 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie contends that the “justice responsible for steering the court to the left was Anthony Kennedy, Scalia’s fellow Ronald Reagan nominee,” while in The New Yorker Jeffrey Toobin suggests that there was “so much drama” at the Court this Term “that it was possible to miss a curious subplot: the full flowering of Justice Clarence Thomas’s judicial eccentricity. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 4:29 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie charts recent developments in the government’s renewed efforts to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census after the Supreme Court blocked the question at the end of June. [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 4:29 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie takes issue with the amicus brief filed by the federal government in support of a baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, arguing that although the brief characterizes wedding cakes as “’inherently communicative,’” it “provides no evidence that even the most elaborately decorated and exorbitantly priced wedding confections are imbued with the capacity of speech. [read post]
27 Sep 2019, 3:55 am
Briefly: For The Economist, Steven Mazie reports that a “bundle of hot-button controversies await the nine” justices “when the Supreme Court returns to work on October 7th,” following “four tumultuous years that saw one death, a retirement, three pitched Senate confirmation battles, two new arrivals and, for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—86 and the anchor of the court’s liberal wing—two cancer diagnoses. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 4:07 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie observes that in “a few of this year’s pending cases, … “the newest justice will face a choice between the modest judicial role he often champions and the conservative change-maker persona some of his supporters—and his nominating president—hope he will embody. [read post]
22 Dec 2017, 4:25 am
Briefly: At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie notes that a study of “more than 3,000 hours of audio recordings of Supreme Court oral arguments between 1982 and 2014” suggests that “[t]he pitch of judges’ voices conveys more about their eventual votes than ‘legal, political and textual information. [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 4:19 am
Briefly: At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie identifies some “unanswered questions” in the Supreme Court’s recent order allowing the Trump administration “to start building a fence along America’s southern border using money Congress appropriated for other projects. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 5:56 am
At Big Think, Steven Mazie discusses what he describes as the alliance of “strange bedfellows” supporting Hobby Lobby and Conestoga, the challengers in the case, while at Balkinization David Gans urges the Court to “recognize that the rights of Hobby Lobby’s thousands of employees – who have deeply held beliefs and convictions of their own – are at stake here, too. [read post]
12 Oct 2018, 4:14 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie reports that the case “boils down to how harshly the government can treat immigrants,” and that “all nine justices struggled to interpret a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) hinging on the meaning of ‘when’—and were split over how to read it. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 6:45 am
In his column for Big Think, Steven Mazie summarizes what he characterizes as the “loopiest, craziest, pull-out-all-the-stops worst argument for insisting that marriage remain a heterosexuals-only club. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 7:35 am
US Senators Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse and Mazie Hiron dropped a lawsuit Tuesday that challenged the constitutionality of former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker’s appointment, which was made without the Senate’s consent. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 12:04 pm
NATIVIDAD SANTIAGO; BETSY SANTIAGO; and MAZIE, SLATER, KATZ and FREEMAN, LLC, App. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 3:40 am
Steven Mazie reports at The Economist’s Espresso blog that “[w]ith no date set for hearings to resume and the pandemic worsening, the term’s final nine engagements—still on the calendar for late April—are also in question. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 4:05 am
Burwell, the challenge to the accommodation offered to religious non-profits that object to the Affordable Care Act’s birth-control mandate, as well as last week’s order asking for supplemental briefing in the case, comes from Steven Mazie, who in The Economist suggests that the Justices “are apparently evenly split again” but reluctant “to issue a ruling that sets no precedent and leaves in place a legal hodgepodge whereby women working at religious… [read post]
31 Dec 2018, 3:46 am
Briefly: At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie notes that “[i]t has been a fairly quiet few months at the Supreme Court,” but “that may change as 2019 begins”: “The justices have already accepted three high-profile cases to be heard in the spring,” and their “next private conference on January 4th could include a range of hot-button cases that would shove the court further into the limelight. [read post]
21 Jul 2017, 4:06 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie reports that the Supreme Court’s entry-ban ruling on Wednesday was “a win for family members in Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Syria and Yemen seeking visas to visit relatives in America,” but “a loss for resettlement organisations that have already expended time, resources and energy planning for 24,000 aspiring refugees seeking shelter in America,” and that the court’s “above-the-fray perspective is the handiwork of a… [read post]
12 Aug 2014, 4:47 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie discusses recent comments by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in an interview with Katie Couric of Yahoo! [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 4:20 am
For The Economist, Steven Mazie reports after Wednesday’s oral argument in Timbs v. [read post]
