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Steven Mazie
@stevenmazie.bsky.social
SCOTUS correspondent for The Economist. Political studies prof at Bard Early College-Manhattan.
President Trump had (loudly) promised that he would ask #SCOTUS to grant rehearing of its June 30 decision blocking his executive order purporting to limit birthright citizenship. The deadline for such a request was yesterday—and ... crickets.
"His for-profit company is seeking to wrap itself in the mantle of voting rights to make the case for a gambling activity that states have ample reasons to choose to discourage, while no one’s constitutional rights are being infringed. Freeman is not John Lewis."
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · last wk.My new one @slate.com: Kalshi Says It’s “Voter Suppression” to Ban Betting on Elections. LOL. gift link: slate.com/news-and-pol...
NEW at SCOTUS: President Trump is back on the emergency docket with a plea to lift an injunction against his executive order “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections"
Liam O'Brien: So You're Saying There's A Chance
ALT: Liam O'Brien: So You're Saying There's A Chance
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Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4w ago#SCOTUS hasn’t granted rehearing in a case after it was decided on the merits docket since 1965, and it hasn’t done so to *fully* reconsider a ruling since 1956. In other words, “sure, Jan.” More in my “One First” explainer here: www.stevevladeck.com/p/90-petitio...
About to see King Lear. Last time I saw it I had three fewer daughters.
Trump received news of his loss in the birthright citizenship case with relative equanimity, focusing on his (much bigger) wins. His assessment of the SCOTUS term is...pretty astute. My term wrap @economist.com www.economist.com/united-state...
The Supreme Court leaves Donald Trump with plenty to celebrate
The justices handed the president some notable defeats. But their biggest decisions strengthened him
economist.com
This one is for the few special conjurers who got hung up on “domicile” yesterday — a term that appears nowhere in the 14th amendment that somehow cuts out the heart of the 14th amendment www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
Chief Justice Warren worked for months to turn a divided court into a 9-0 ruling announcing unequivocally that the 14th amendment bars racial segregation. 72 years later, Chief Justice Roberts wrote the decision affirming another bedrock principle of the 14th amendment—and the vote was 5-4.
The federal government was a party in 21 of the 56 merits cases #SCOTUS decided this term. All three Democratic appointees sided with the government in five of those 21 cases, and Justices Kagan and Sotomayor sided with the government in a sixth.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Hassett on the Supreme Court's three liberal justices: "It can't be that Trump is always wrong. It can't be that Trump is always wrong, but that's how they voted."
Kavanaugh’s quasi-concurrence is in some ways more unsettling than the open dissents insofar as he contemplates a rather open-ended judicial prerogative to manufacture novel exceptions to birthright citizenship based on what are essentially policy considerations.
Two of Trump's three SCOTUS appointees ruled today that his EO on birthright citizenship is perfectly consistent with the 14th amendment. If he had picked, say, Ho or Oldham to replace RBG—rather than Barrett—we would have a different constitution today.
the fed's structure is what the framers envisioned, other independent agencies are too different for the constitution to protect vs ar-15s are just like muskets
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · last mo.DEVELOPING: U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenge to Cook County assault weapons ban From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/us-supreme-c...
Apparently picking up on the implicit invitation in Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence, President Trump is asking Congress to turn his EO mangling birthright citizenship into a statute. He doesn't seem to clock the fact that five justices said today that the 14th am thwarts any such effort.
Full statement by NPR Editor in Chief Tommy Evans on retracted Alito story
Justice Roberts’ majority opinion on birthright citizenship traces (accurately) the history of citizenship law. But J Brown-Jackson’s concurrence discusses the larger history of America, and how the 14th A fits into it.
Steven Mazie@stevenmazie.bsky.social · last mo.So you're saying there's a chance...
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · last mo.JUST IN: #SCOTUS spokesperson knocks down withdrawn NPR report that Alito has retired. "NPR's reporting regarding Justice Alito is inaccurate. And their reporting that there was any kind of court statement is inaccurate." -- Patricia McCabe, Supreme Court spokesperson
🚨 🚨 🚨 FYI: The Supreme Court DID NOT announce #SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito's retirement today.
Agree on both counts. The Constitution wins by a hair.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last mo.I'll just say that I am *more* surprised by Justice Gorsuch's vote in the birthright citizenship case than I am by Justice Kavanaugh's. I had thought the 6-3 tariffs lineup was a real possibility after the oral argument, but not 5-4 on the constitutional question.
Check that, FOUR justices are happy to jettison the Citizenship Clause. Justice Kavanaugh strikes down Trump's EO on a statutory basis. (Sorry, lots of opinion here. I just got to Kav's.)
Steven Mazie@stevenmazie.bsky.social · last mo.Wow, there are three justices happy to toss out/mangle/rewrite the Citizenship Clause of the 14th amendment.
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules AGAINST Trump's EO limiting birthright citizenship. The vote is 6-3.
BREAKING: SCOTUS holds, again 6-3, that limits on political parties coordinating campaign expenditures with candidates violate the First Amendment www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds state bans on transgender women participating in female sports. The vote is 6-3
A super insightful, crisp recap of yesterday‘s SCOTUS havoc…
Strict Scrutiny Podcast@strictscrutiny.bsky.social · last mo.NEW - emergency ep on SCOTUS ending independent agencies, except the fed, for [reasons TK here, but maybe because confederate sympathizers were right to be hostile to the Reconstruction Congress and also our stock portfolios] pod.link/1469168641/e...
The SCOTUS supermajority completes its four-decade quest to balloon presidential power — smack in the middle of Donald Trump's second term. My @economist.com analysis of Trump v. Slaughter & Trump v. Cook www.economist.com/united-state...
The Supreme Court has handed Donald Trump yet more power
Dozens of agencies—but not the Federal Reserve—are now subject to presidential whim
economist.com
