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14 Dec 2018, 3:58 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie considers Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s decision not to join Thomas in voting to hear the cases, suggesting that “it is no particular surprise that Justice Kavanaugh is cultivating a low profile, heading off conflicts involving poor women’s access to reproductive health services so early in his tenure,” and cautioning that “[t]t would be a mistake to read too much into a single vote… [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 4:20 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie observes that “[i]t should not come as a shock that Justice Alito, who hears emergency requests from the federal circuit encompassing Pennsylvania, turned down Republicans’ demand to get involved in a state-law question over which the nation’s highest court has no jurisdiction. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 2:28 pm
” Other commentary addresses specific elements of Scalia’s legacy: his originalism, at All Things Considered; his Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, by Jonathan Blanks at Cato at Liberty; his influence on state and local governance, by Lisa Soronen of Knowledge Center for The Counsel of State Governments; his libertarian jurisprudence, by Ilya Shapiro at Reason.com; and his more liberal jurisprudence, by Steven Mazie at Big Think. [read post]
12 May 2016, 2:22 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie contends that, with the Court’s recent refusal to hear a challenge to Seattle’s new minimum-wage law, “cities have the green light to legislate for higher wages, even as the national debate over wage policy becomes a point of contestation in the presidential campaign. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 5:32 am
Supreme Court Hears His Claim (Nina Totenberg, NPR) The Supreme Court Must Choose Between Trump and the Constitution in the Census Case (David Gans, Slate) Trump’s plan to shift congressional seats reaches the Supreme Court (Steven Mazie, The Economist) Supreme Court considers Trump’s plan to adjust census based on immigration status (Mark Walsh, ABA Journal) Trump Administration Backs Oil Industry in SCOTUS Climate Case (Ellen Gilmer, Bloomberg Law) Open the Bar:… [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 4:56 am
” And at The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie observes that, if the Court does (as many expect) take up one or more of the challenges to state bans on same-sex marriage, “it might be natural to assume that we’re gearing up for another 4-4 right-left split, with Justice Anthony Kennedy in the middle. [read post]
24 May 2016, 6:00 am
Chatman, holding by a vote of seven to one that the Supreme Court of Georgia’s decision that the defendant failed to show purposeful race discrimination in the selection of his jury was clearly erroneous, comes from Tony Mauro of Supreme Court Brief (subscription or registration required); commentary comes from Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences, Janell Ross for The Washington Post, Steven Mazie in The Economist, and Garrett Epps in The Atlantic. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 7:26 am
(Amber Phillips, The Washington Post) The Amy Coney Barrett Hail-Mary Touchdown (Emma Green, The Atlantic) Amy Coney Barrett is set to transform America’s Supreme Court (Steven Mazie, The Economist) Amy Coney Barrett joins the Supreme Court in unprecedented times (Joan Biskupic, CNN) Barrett Will Take Oaths at White House and Supreme Court, Following Kavanaugh and Gorsuch Path (Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal) Should Justice Barrett Recuse from 2020 Election Litigation? [read post]
5 May 2017, 4:10 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie asks whether, with “Neil Gorsuch now in Antonin Scalia’s old chair and retirement rumours flying about Anthony Kennedy, the 80-year-old perennial swing justice,” “Chief Justice Roberts [could] be emerging as the court’s new median vote,” noting that although a “wider look at … Roberts’s record does not suggest even-handedness,” “in one of the most politicised eras of the… [read post]
26 Mar 2014, 1:37 am
Richard Wolf of USA Today summarizes the state of play, noting that, “[w]ithin the three branches of the federal government, nowhere is the discussion as scintillating as at Supreme Court arguments,” while at The Economist’s Democracy in America blog Steven Mazie criticizes the absence of cameras, arguing that “the American justices’ desire to keep a lid on things seems anachronistic. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 8:32 am
Other Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Supreme Court Weighs Monetary Damages Under Religious Freedom Law (Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal) Supreme Court Hears Case of Muslims on No-Fly List (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) Supreme Court opens politically charged term with major business cases involving Google, Oracle and Ford (Tucker Higgins, CNBC) Term opens with Texas-N.M. water war; Barrett hearings loom (Pamela King, E&E News) SCOTUS Questions Whether… [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 6:30 am
(David Kaplan, The New York Times) Conservative Supreme Court justices are threatening a post-election coup (Laurence Tribe & Steven Mazie, Boston Globe) A New Assault on Marriage Equality (David Cole, The New York Review) Spheres of Liberty and Free Exercise: Lessons for Fulton from Jefferson’s Correspondence with Ursuline Nuns (Stephanie Barclay, The Volokh Conspiracy) Justices Fret Over FOIA Evasion but Struggle for Better Test (Ellen Gilmer, Bloomberg Law) Denying… [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 4:30 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie observes that the “paper-and-ink volley” in the parties’ briefs was not “fought in polite, lawyerly terms. [read post]
19 Nov 2019, 3:36 am
” At The Economist, Steven Mazie looks at the case, along with a cert petition filed last week that involves a state-court subpoena for the president’s financial records, observing that “[e]ach case presents the Supreme Court with a separation-of-powers quandary—how to adjudicate a dispute between branches of the federal government in Trump v Mazars; and between the president and state prosecutors in Trump v Vance. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 3:36 am
” At Big Think, Steven Mazie considers whether, if the Court were to strike down state bans on same-sex marriage, a state court judge could ignore that decision. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 4:02 am
” At The Economist, Steven Mazie looks at Epic Systems v. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 4:08 am
” Briefly: At The Economist’s Democracy in America Blog, Steven Mazie discusses various challenges to state restrictions on abortion and observes that, with its order on Monday letting stand a lower-court ruling that blocked North Carolina’s ultrasound from going into effect, “the Supreme Court has effectively foreclosed ultrasound laws requiring doctor explanations in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 4:55 am
In his column for The Economist, Steven Mazie considers the four-four affirmance in Friedrichs v. [read post]
2 Jan 2019, 4:07 am
Steven Mazie observes for The Economist that “On the Basis of Sex,” a new movie about the young Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career as a women’s-rights litigator, “brings a measure of hope to viewers who cheer the revolution in gender equality the past half-century has wrought. [read post]
10 May 2019, 4:11 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie writes that a “book-length opinion striking down Ohio’s congressional map by a panel of three federal judges on May 3rd was written with one particular readership in mind—the justices of the Supreme Court,” who are expected to decide in two cases this term “whether the constitution imposes limits on partisan line-drawing. [read post]
