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19 Aug 2016, 7:38 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie argues that, although Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s pledge to reverse the effects of the Court’s decision in Citizens United v. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 12:25 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie suggests that “there are a host of reasons Republicans may hesitate to give the nod to” Chief Judge Merrick Garland, the president’s nominee to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, “before Mrs Clinton takes office next January, should she defeat Mr Trump in November. [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]
13 Jul 2016, 3:59 am
Commentary comes from Steven Mazie, who in The Economist suggests that Ginsburg’s “dismissal of the GOP’s surprise presumptive nominee may backfire. [read post]
8 Jul 2016, 4:59 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie concludes that the Court’s ruling in the case of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell “is a relief not only to Mr McDonnell and his wife but to untold politicians across the country who may have used their offices to pursue questionable deals and exchanges. [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]
29 Jun 2016, 12:36 pm
University of Texas at Austin, holding that the race-conscious admissions policy in use when Abigail Fisher applied (unsuccessfully) to the university does not violate the Constitution, comes from Steven Mazie, who in The Economist suggests that the vote of Justice Anthony Kennedy with the three of the Court’s more liberal Justices “reflects an evolution, not a transformation, of his thinking about race in America. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 9:05 am
Coverage comes from Steven Mazie of The Economist, Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones, Michael Shear and Tripp Gabriel for The New York Times, Tom Dart of The Guardian, and Haeyoun Park and Alicia Parlapiano of The New York Times, with an interactive feature on the effects of the decision, while coverage relating to the decision and its role in the 2016 presidential campaign comes from Julia Preston of The New York Times, David Nakamura of The Washington Post, Russell Berman of The… [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 6:52 am
Additional coverage comes from NPR’s Nina Totenberg, with commentary from Orin Kerr for this blog, Garrett Epps for The Atlantic, Steven Mazie of The Economist, and Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 3:35 am
Commentary on the grant in Moore comes from Lisa Soronen at the NCSL Blog and Steven Mazie for The Economist. [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]
20 May 2016, 7:20 am
Commentary comes from Ian Millhiser for Think Progress and Steven Mazie of The Economist. [read post]
19 May 2016, 9:22 pm
"Trump's Supreme Court wish-list is designed to reassure conservatives": Steven Mazie has this post tonight at the "Democracy in America" blog of The Economist. [read post]
19 May 2016, 4:06 am
Burwell, the challenge to the Obama administration’s birth-control mandate and the accommodation offered to religious non-profits, comes from Michael McConnell at The Volokh Conspiracy, Leland Beck at Federal Regulations Advisor, and Steven Mazie in The Economist. [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]
11 May 2016, 9:57 am
" Steven Mazie has this post at the "Democracy in America" blog of The Economist. [read post]
10 May 2016, 5:44 am
” And Steven Mazie argues in The Economist that, whether the division among the remaining Justices “manifests as 4-4 splits or a tendency to hear fewer cases in which those splits seem likely, a curbed Supreme Court is not a court that can possibly live up to its name. [read post]
9 May 2016, 4:11 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie looks at the battle over Texas’s voter ID law and suggests that, if the court of appeals either fails to rule on the issue or upholds the law, “civil rights groups opposed to the restrictions will almost certainly ask the justices to consider the voter-ID law once again. [read post]
6 May 2016, 5:08 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie cites the Court’s possible review of the Texas voter identification law as an example of “another potential 4-4 split, a fresh reminder of the missing ninth justice that America’s 45th president will—if the Senate stays true to its word—get to appoint. [read post]
2 May 2016, 2:37 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie looks back at last week’s decision in Heffernan v. [read post]
