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1 Oct 2018, 4:26 am by Edith Roberts
” At The Economist’s Espresso blog, Steven Mazie notes that “this year’s 43 pending cases are less ideologically fraught than last term’s. [read post]
29 Sep 2018, 4:39 am by SHG
The flip side is that if two guys did this to Senator Mazie Hirono, this would have been characterized less generously. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 3:53 am by Edith Roberts
” For The Economist, Steven Mazie observes that the cases on the new term’s docket “may not grab headlines,” but that “important questions loom,” and that “[i]n their first week back the justices will hear arguments on the fate of an endangered amphibian, the separation of powers and whether a man with a mental illness can be executed. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 9:01 am by Walter Olson
From Mazie’s account, slightly edited for readability: KAGAN: People viewing the judiciary as legitimate is part of the “marvel” of the third branch of government. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 11:04 am by Tom Smith
Mazie Hirono not only has insisted that she and other women alleging abuse “need to be believed,” but men need to “just shut up and step up. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 2:23 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Public service already involves such a severe loss of privacy as to discourage a lot of good people.Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii now routinely asks all nominees about any sexual misconduct, but she expressly limits the question to the adult years and properly so. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 4:25 am by Edith Roberts
” For The Economist, Steven Mazie looks back at the opening day of the hearing, when “the torpor of the typical opening-day hearing was broken” as Democrats objected to what they considered an unacceptably truncated and hasty production of documents from Kavanaugh’s days in the George W. [read post]
4 Sep 2018, 4:16 am by Edith Roberts
” More previews of the hearing come from Brent Kendall for The Wall Street Journal, Byron Tau, also for the Journal, Lisa Mascaro at the Associated Press, Steven Mazie at The Economist’s Espresso blog, Sheryl Gay Stolberg for The New York Times, Robert Barnes for The Washington Post, Emily Cochrane for The New York Times, and Richard Wolf for USA Today, who also highlights the “five major controversies” surrounding the nomination here. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 7:55 am by Andrew Hamm
” Commentary on the case comes from Steven Mazie of The Economist, who suggests that “with a possible 4-4 split between the court’s liberals and conservatives before Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed by the Senate, and five votes needed to reverse a lower-court ruling, anti-gerrymandering activists see a tantalising window of opportunity. [read post]
29 Aug 2018, 7:54 am by Andrew Hamm
” Steven Mazie of The Economist discusses the “permutations [that] would ultimately trigger appeals and requests for emergency relief from the Supreme Court” concerning DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which “provides undocumented immigrants who arrived in America as children and meet other requirements renewable two-year reprieves from deportation and permits to work legally. [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 4:32 am by Edith Roberts
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie suggests that a new lawsuit against Colorado civil rights officials by cake artist Jack Phillips, who prevailed in last term’s Masterpiece Cakeshop case “because [the Supreme Court] saw signs that the Colorado civil-rights commission was overtly hostile toward [Phillips’] religious beliefs,” indicates that Phillips’ “conscience bars him from creating a much wider array of goodies,… [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 7:30 pm by Howard Bashman
Mazie Hirono said Trump’s Supreme Court nominee was selected only to ‘protect, as we say in Hawaii, his own okole. [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 3:31 pm by Elie Mystal
MAZIE HIRONO CANCELED HER MEETING WITH BRETT KAVANAUGH: The obvious suggestion from this is that Mazie Hirono is think about a run for president. [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 4:11 am by Edith Roberts
” Briefly: For The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie explains that the outcome of Weyerhaeuser Company v. [read post]