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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]
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]
9 Jan 2014, 8:25 am
Writing for The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie suggests that “[t]his week’s drama over the Utah ruling gives an early indication that, in the justices’ eyes, the time is not quite right to sweep away all state bans on same-sex marriage. [read post]
21 Nov 2018, 4:08 am
” Briefly: At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie looks at the legal challenges to the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as deputy attorney general, including one that “comes in the guise of Michaels v Sessions, a case challenging the federal ban on guns for convicted felons that has seen its caption change to Michaels v Whitaker” during the cert petition stage. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 3:27 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie suggests that the president’s decision to abandon the effort to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census “signaled both a willingness to let the Supreme Court’s decision stand and several reversals of positions the government had insisted upon—repeatedly and with a straight face, in print and in person—during the course of the litigation. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 3:53 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie remarks on “two significant signs that as Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee gets to work, he may envision his job in more muscular terms than did Mr Scalia. [read post]
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 Immunity,… [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 justices… [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]
