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23 Oct 2013, 11:20 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie predicts that “[w]hen the Michigan ban is upheld in June, racial preferences will remain constitutionally permissible elsewhere, but the practice seems likely to peter to a halt well in advance of the 2028 date by which Sandra Day O’Connor once predicted it would no longer be necessary. [read post]
21 May 2014, 4:13 am
Writing for The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie contends that the Court’s “ruling denied the validity of [the plaintiffs’] alienation from the public affairs of their hometown and disparaged their allegations as the mere whining of oversensitive dissidents. [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]
26 Apr 2019, 3:59 am
At The Economist, Steven Mazie discusses Tuesday’s oral argument in Department of Commerce v. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 4:29 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie charts recent developments in the government’s renewed efforts to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census after the Supreme Court blocked the question at the end of June. [read post]
22 Dec 2017, 4:25 am
Briefly: At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie notes that a study of “more than 3,000 hours of audio recordings of Supreme Court oral arguments between 1982 and 2014” suggests that “[t]he pitch of judges’ voices conveys more about their eventual votes than ‘legal, political and textual information. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 5:56 am
At Big Think, Steven Mazie discusses what he describes as the alliance of “strange bedfellows” supporting Hobby Lobby and Conestoga, the challengers in the case, while at Balkinization David Gans urges the Court to “recognize that the rights of Hobby Lobby’s thousands of employees – who have deeply held beliefs and convictions of their own – are at stake here, too. [read post]
12 Oct 2018, 4:14 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie reports that the case “boils down to how harshly the government can treat immigrants,” and that “all nine justices struggled to interpret a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) hinging on the meaning of ‘when’—and were split over how to read it. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 4:07 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie observes that in “a few of this year’s pending cases, … “the newest justice will face a choice between the modest judicial role he often champions and the conservative change-maker persona some of his supporters—and his nominating president—hope he will embody. [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 4:29 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie takes issue with the amicus brief filed by the federal government in support of a baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, arguing that although the brief characterizes wedding cakes as “’inherently communicative,’” it “provides no evidence that even the most elaborately decorated and exorbitantly priced wedding confections are imbued with the capacity of speech. [read post]
27 Sep 2019, 3:55 am
Briefly: For The Economist, Steven Mazie reports that a “bundle of hot-button controversies await the nine” justices “when the Supreme Court returns to work on October 7th,” following “four tumultuous years that saw one death, a retirement, three pitched Senate confirmation battles, two new arrivals and, for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—86 and the anchor of the court’s liberal wing—two cancer diagnoses. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 6:45 am
In his column for Big Think, Steven Mazie summarizes what he characterizes as the “loopiest, craziest, pull-out-all-the-stops worst argument for insisting that marriage remain a heterosexuals-only club. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 3:40 am
Steven Mazie reports at The Economist’s Espresso blog that “[w]ith no date set for hearings to resume and the pandemic worsening, the term’s final nine engagements—still on the calendar for late April—are also in question. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 4:05 am
” The Northwestern University Law Review Online hosts a podcast in which Andrew Koppelman and Steven Calabresi discuss the legal legacy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. [read post]
31 Dec 2018, 3:46 am
Briefly: At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie notes that “[i]t has been a fairly quiet few months at the Supreme Court,” but “that may change as 2019 begins”: “The justices have already accepted three high-profile cases to be heard in the spring,” and their “next private conference on January 4th could include a range of hot-button cases that would shove the court further into the limelight. [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 4:12 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie reports that by “the end of the hearing, it seemed clear that while a majority of the court is hesitant to go as far” as the lawyer for the band as “in forcing the patent office to accept nearly every application that comes its way, the justices are deeply sceptical about the rule that led it to rebuff The Slants. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 4:08 am
For The Economist, Steven Mazie reports that at Wednesday’s oral argument in Carpenter v. [read post]
29 Aug 2019, 8:16 am
” At The Economist, Steven Mazie analyzes how the federal government’s recent emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to “lift a district-court injunction against” a new asylum rule barring those who could have sought refuge in another country, fits into the a string of recent efforts by the administration to jump the queue at the court. [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 4:14 am
In The Economist, Steven Mazie reports that “one salvo” in the Democrats’ battle “to stanch the huge redistricting advantage Republicans grabbed after the 2010 census” “is coming to the Supreme Court when the justices reconvene in the autumn: Gill v Whitford, a case challenging Wisconsin’s electoral maps. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 5:25 am
Steven Mazie summarizes the case for The Economist, while at Just Security, David Golove and Marty Lederman weigh in on the case. [read post]
