Steven Mazie
@stevenmazie
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I cover SCOTUS @TheEconomist and teach @BHSEC. Brooklynite, @UMich pol science PhD, dad of three, runner. Views here are mine.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2012
The Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis is about abortion rights—and much more. My cover story from @TheEconomist
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The nine justices are increasingly at odds with the majority of citizens
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NEW at SCOTUS: the October and November oral argument calendars are out. The big Voting Rights Act case and a 4th amendment case will be argued on Oct. 15th. A capital punishment/IQ case clarifying Atkins will be argued on Nov. 4th.
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BIG SCOTUS NEWS: the justices ordered the parties in the Louisiana redistricting case to file briefs on whether it's unconstitutional to create electoral districts that boost minority voting power. 👉 a STRONG HINT they want to strike down what remains of the Voting Rights Act
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RT @DavidCole_Gtown: Kagan's dissent in Rucho is one of the great dissents of all time. Up there with Holmes and Brandeis's First Amendmen….
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Today's gerrymandering news in Texas; the close of Justice Kagan's dissent in Rucho v. Common Cause, the 5-4 decision that green-lighted partisan gerrymandering in 2019
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A rare moment in the Trump era when federal preemption & the unitary executive temper an aggressively right-wing policy.
HUGE. And also unquestionably the correct response. This comes soon after the 5th Circuit itself also turned away a request by Texas to put SB4, a similar law, into effect. The precedent cannot be more clear — states cannot carry out their own immigration enforcement regimes.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court *denies* Florida’s emergency request to let it implement a law barring undocumented immigrants from entering the state. There is no written opinion. No noted dissents.
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Justice Kagan writes a concurrence explaining that she opposed the original order of June 23 but now the lower court must follow what a majority of SCOTUS has said.
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Justices Sotomayor and Jackson write a dissent. Here is the beginning and end of it
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This means the government can resume sending undocumented immigrants to countries like South Sudan without giving them a chance to argue that they will be subject to torture there.
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Breaking: SCOTUS grants Trump administration’s request to clarify its previous order in the third-country deportation case. The previous district court order blocking the deportations is effectively null and void.
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SCOTUS is fueling, not curbing, Trump's law-stretching second term. My @TheEconomist analysis of this spring's conservative tsunami—which looks to continue through summer and beyond
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The president is using emergency cases to expand his power
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BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to hear two cases involving bans on transgender athletes participating in women's sports on public school and college teams. The cases will be argued in the SCOTUS term beginning in October. The cases are West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox.
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SCOTUS's conservative majority is risking a chaotic patchwork citizenship policy with today's ruling in Trump v CASA. As I write in @TheEconomist even if that does not come to pass, Trump will now see smoother sailing for other parts of his agenda
economist.com
The Supreme Court curtails judges’ ability to block the president’s agenda
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SCOTUS CLOSING DAY. Opinions at 10 AM. Here’s what’s coming. Follow me on the blue alternative to Twitter for all the details.
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21 SCOTUS decisions and 13 days to go in June. Here’s my quick @TheEconomist look at what’s to come. Next rulings dropping today at 10am
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SCOTUS will be releasing more decisions next Wednesday, June 18th. (It's closed the next day for Juneteenth.) . Also, this is the first week in a while with no emergency applications from the Trump administration (though I suppose the day is young).
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Why would SCOTUS record justices reading opinions & not release the audio till months later?. There's no good reason. A year ago I signed a letter, along w other SCOTUS journalists, asking for livestreamed announcements. No response. We released the letter to the public today.
#SCOTUS now livestreams oral arguments but still resists same for opinion announcements.
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RT @peterbakernyt: "Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officer….
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