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3 Oct 2014, 7:15 am
And at The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie looks at some of yesterday’s grants. [read post]
7 May 2014, 5:22 am
Finally, in his column for The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie identifies what he sees as the “crux of the problem with Justice Kagan’s admirable wish for equal democratic citizenship unsullied by sectarianism: it would put the town board of Greece in charge of defining and policing religious diversity. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 3:54 am
For The Economist, Steven Mazie reports that during oral argument in this week’s two partisan-gerrymandering cases, Rucho v. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 4:19 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie suggests that this week’s orders allowing the latest version of the administration’s entry ban to go into full effect pending appeals “hinted that if Mr Trump’s travel ban reaches [the Supreme Court], a majority may be unreceptive to arguments it should be struck down as executive overreach or a violation of the constitution. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 3:57 am
” Additional coverage comes from Ariane de Vogue and Geneva Sands for CNN and from Steven Mazie at The Economist’s Espresso blog. [read post]
1 May 2015, 4:25 am
Coverage of Tuesday’s oral arguments in the challenges to state bans on same-sex marriage comes from David Savage in the Los Angeles Times and Steven Mazie in The Economist (subscription required), while commentary comes from Robert George at Public Discourse, Gene Schaerr at the Daily Signal, Andrew Koppelman and Ilya Somin in an op-ed for USA Today, with a response in a letter to the editor from David Boyle, Steven Mazie at Big Think, Michael… [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 3:54 am
” And at Big Think, Steven Mazie contends that “one query during the January 11 oral hearing suggests that the Supreme Court may be ready to upend nearly four decades of mandatory ‘fair-share fees’ based on a profound misconception about the collective action problem known as free ridership. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 4:09 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie discusses the court’s dismissal as moot last week of one of two challenges to President Donald Trump’s March 6 travel ban, noting that “[a]s one set of battles over Mr Trump’s appetite for banning Muslim people from America’s shores fizzles out, another is set to begin. [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 3:53 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie suggests that “ratifying Alabama’s decision to put a very sick man with large gaps in his memory to death effectively, if not formally, puts the Supreme Court on one side—arguably the wrong one—of a philosophical debate over personal identity and punishment. [read post]
9 Jul 2015, 7:31 am
” Steven Mazie makes a similar observation at The Economist’s Democracy in America blog; he argues that, if “come next spring, affirmative-action admissions policies are found to contravene the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee, or mandatory union dues are struck down as a violation of free speech, it will be the liberals’ turn to decry the court’s judicial activism while conservatives nod solemnly and announce that the… [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 2:20 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie discusses Supreme Court oral arguments and the absence of cameras from those arguments. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 3:24 am
Additional coverage of Moore comes from Nina Totenberg at NPR, who notes that “the state’s test is based on what the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals called ‘a consensus of Texas citizens,’ that not all those who meet the ‘social services definition’ of ‘retardation’ should be exempt from the death penalty,” and from Steven Mazie in The Economist. [read post]
12 Mar 2015, 3:18 am
’” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie outlines what he describes as “a plausible scenario” in which the Chief Justice “may vote in the liberal direction in both King v Burwell,the Obamacare case, and Obergefell v Hodges, the same-sex marriage case. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 7:51 am
Steven Mazie weighs in at The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, while Lisa Soronen analyzes the decision at the Appellate Practice Blog of the International Municipal Lawyers Association. [read post]
17 Apr 2019, 3:49 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie writes that the case “may be a close call”: “The justices tend to be protective of free speech, but the prospect of patent-office officials forced to approve vulgar or racist trademarks makes them queasy. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 6:49 am
The Economist’s Steven Mazie examines the court’s potential role in deciding legal disputes that could tip the presidential election. [read post]
17 May 2019, 3:44 am
At The Economist, Steven Mazie profiles Judge Amy Coney Barrett, “a rising star of the conservative judicial movement” who could be at the top of the president’s list to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 3:54 am
Abbott, the “one person, one vote” challenge to the state legislative maps in Texas, comes from Marcia Coyle for the Supreme Court Brief (subscription required) and Chris Geidner at BuzzFeed, with commentary from David Gans at New Republic, Steven Mazie at The Economist, and Rick Hasen in the Los Angeles Times. [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 4:10 am
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie looks at three cases the court will near this fall that ask whether federal law protects employees from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, noting that although “[e]xpanding gay rights via an old statute might seem like a stretch for a Supreme Court with a five-justice conservative majority that now lacks Justice Anthony Kennedy, who authored four landmark opinions… [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 4:46 am
” In the wake of last week’s arguments in the challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race in its undergraduate admissions process, Steven Mazie has an “explainer” for The Economist on the Court and its affirmative action jurisprudence. [read post]
