Search for: "Steven Mazie"
Results 341 - 360
of 530
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
23 Sep 2020, 5:59 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie examines the five women on President Trump’s shortlist for the open seat, noting that all five candidates “have ties to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organisation that has found great success grooming young lawyers for the bench. [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]
6 Sep 2018, 4:25 am
” 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]
16 Dec 2015, 4:00 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie discusses the Court’s order in favor of an Alabama woman, temporarily blocking an Alabama Supreme Court order that took away her rights (awarded by a Georgia court) to the children that she was raising with her same-sex partner before the couple broke up; he adds that the Justices “seem likely to take the case” on the merits. [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]
22 Jan 2019, 3:50 am
Idrees Kahloon and Steven Mazie take a closer look at the trial court’s decision at The Economist’s Democracy in America blog. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 3:53 am
” 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]
28 Apr 2020, 6:26 am
Vance Amy Howe, Howe on the Court | Steven Mazie, Bard High School Early College Preview: May 7, 12 p.m. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 4:28 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie looks at Masterpiece Cakeshop v. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 4:46 am
” And at The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie concludes that, although the Justices initially “seemed keen to grant localities a measure of discretion in regulating their signage,” “it makes no sense to limit the Good News Community Church to ‘a little dingy’ sign (in Justice Breyer’s words) for the sole reason that it includes an arrow pointing to the right. [read post]
4 Dec 2015, 3:34 am
At his Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen explains why he is “not all that worried about what the Court is going to do” in the case, while in The Economist Steven Mazie suggests that the stakes in the case “are potentially huge, and it appears that Democrats have the most to lose. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 6:13 am
” In an “explainer” for The Economist, Steven Mazie reviews the Court’s case law on police discretion and the use of legal force. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 4:46 am
Davis, a death penalty case involving racial bias and ineffective assistance of counsel, comes from Steven Mazie for The Economist, who notes that “none of the justices seemed comfortable sending Mr Buck to his death based on the racially tainted testimony that was ringing in the jurors’ ears as they entered the jury room,” and from Chris McDaniel and Chris Geidner at Buzzfeed, who report that although the court appeared poised to rule in Buck’s favor, 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]
31 Oct 2019, 3:57 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie notes that “when the Supreme Court decided in June that it was ill-suited to policing partisan gerrymandering, Chief Justice John Roberts wove in a faint silver lining for fans of democracy” – lawsuits in state courts under state statutes and constitutions, and that a state court in North Carolina this week “effectively erased as a violation of North Carolina’s state constitution”… [read post]
12 Feb 2019, 4:15 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie writes that “[a]side from acknowledging the religious discrimination of their previous policy, this move matched similarly fraught strategies of addressing racial discrimination claims during the civil-rights era. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 11:34 am
Timothy Jost at Health Affairs Blog provides commentary on the order, and Steven Mazie at The Economist and Alina Salganicoff at Medium discuss last week’s oral arguments in the case. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 3:43 am
Noah Feldman weighed in on the case in his column for Bloomberg View, suggesting that the Court is hearing the case “to try to keep control of how U.S. laws implicate foreign sovereigns,” while Steven Mazie discusses the case in his column for The Economist’s Democracy in America Blog, Still other coverage and commentary focus on Monday’s orders from its September 28 Conference. [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]
3 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
On the other hand, as Lyle Denniston observes, the one-at-a-time approach of the telephonic arguments inhibited the sort of free-flowing interplay among the Justices and advocates that can be illuminating.Accordingly, Steven Mazie usefully suggests a hybrid system—a round of questioning in which the Justices take turns followed by a more open-ended segment. [read post]
