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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just took down a post I put up earlier today commenting on a Politico article spinning Alito’s CBS interview as “confirming” that he’s considering retirement. After watching the clip, my analysis didn’t hold up. Thanks to @adambonin.bsky.social for posting that in the replies and pushing back.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gut wrenching. She was kind and polite and grateful while Tennessee was brutalizing her body www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/s...

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: Supreme Court issues revised December argument calendar showing the newly granted third-country removal case scheduled for December 9.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From press battles and canceled research grants to ideological deportations, the upcoming Supreme Court term could force a major reckoning over the boundaries of free speech in the Trump era. My lead note in this week's US section @economist.com www.economist.com/united-state...

economist.com

The coming fight over free speech

The Supreme Court must decide whether to limit the First Amendment or executive power

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration request to revive third-country deportations and takes case onto merits docket for December oral argument

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bright side: the risk isn’t catastrophic *and* existential

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Court's own ethics policy states that justices should explain the reason for their recusals. Only the liberal justices have honored this rule, and Alito continues to violate it.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW at SCOTUS: after resisting calls to recuse himself in Suncor v. Boulder, the case being heard a week from today involving state tort claims against energy companies for contributing to climate change, Justice Alito announces he will not participate.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great write-up of a rare unanimous benchslap from SCOTUS

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pretty emphatic rebuke of Judges Smith and Stras

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING: SCOTUS again rebuffs Missouri plan to use Republican-leaning congressional map in the midterms

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:

A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEW at SCOTUS: an Asian parent files an emergency application claiming a program for low-income students is motivated by race and took her child's spot at NYC's Stuyvesant High School

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well this round of the Missouri map flap is taking longer than the last. A sign this time there are dissenters and they’re writing. The majority may have a few words of explanation as well.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW at SCOTUS: Trump adm files emergency plea to resume third-country deportations after last week’s 1st Circuit ruling that DHS must give migrants notice + a chance to raise torture/persecution claims

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IMPENDING AT SCOTUS: The intervenors in the Missouri congressional map flap just filed their final brief, which means an order could come at any time. Possibly tonight.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#ELB: “Breaking: Missouri maps dispute heads back to SCOTUS” electionlawblog.org/2026/breaking-m…

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BREAKING: the Missouri congressional map is back at SCOTUS Voting-rights org asks Court to clarify its earlier order refusing to green-light a new gerrymandered map following an extraordinary 8th circuit order purporting to...green-light that same gerrymandered map.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now that SCOTUS has defused Trump's order messing with mail-in ballots, what shenanigans could be next? Kennett Werner & I explain in this week's @economist.com www.economist.com/united-state...

economist.com

Donald Trump’s attacks on postal voting are failing

But he has other ways to snarl the midterm elections

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Total number of substantive #SCOTUS rulings on Trump emergency applications since 1/20/25: 32 Rulings with dissents from 2+ Democratic appointees: 22 Rulings with dissents from 2+ Republican appointees: 5 The mail-in ballots ruling is a big one, but let's not lose sight of the denominator here.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Supreme Court refuses to greenlight Trump‘s postal voting rule. The apparent vote is 7-2, with Justices Alito and Thomas dissenting

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

All five stories atop the NYT homepage right now are AI-related

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The government this morning filed a supplementary brief citing this new injunction and (1) repeating its request to immediately stay the (previous) injunction; and (2) noting that the DC district court will be compelled to "immediately grant a parallel stay" once SCOTUS does that

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 11/09/2026

Today on @marketplace.org: "Gernot Wagner, director of the Climate Knowledge Initiative at Columbia Business School, has created his own model that predicts the price-per-barrel going forward." That model: globalscope.io Marketplace story: www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

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SCOPE — Spatial Crude Oil Price Equilibrium

An interactive research tool modelling the global crude oil network as a spatial price equilibrium — simulate strait closures, outages and market-psychology shocks and watch regional prices respond.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just a reminder that this Missouri partisan gerrymandering mess is one corner of a much bigger, national gerrymandering mess which SCOTUS invited in 2019 when it ruled, in Rucho v Common Cause, that there's just no darned way courts can do anything about it www.oyez.org/cases/2018/1...

oyez.org

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Missouri Supreme Court contempt proceeding against Denny Hoskins, the Sec'y of State, is underway.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And WOAH the court has *already* ordered the Missouri Secretary of State pursuing these electoral shenanigans to respond by 10am *tomorrow*. A sign they want to foreclose this fuckery ASAP

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BREAKING: the Missouri electoral map flap returns to the SCOTUS emergency docket

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

NEW: the Trump administration renews its emergency plea to let the USPS rule on mail-in voting move forward. (Earlier it had withdrawn its application regarding a temporary restraining order against the policy. The TRO has been dissolved and now a preliminary injunction is in place.)

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

NEW: the December SCOTUS calendar is out and there are some big cases scheduled. - constitutionality of assault weapons bans on Dec. 2 - parental-rights/transgender-minors case on Dec. 7 - Arizona proof-of-citizenship/voter-roll case on Dec. 8

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW: the Trump administration has once again come to SCOTUS with an emergency request to let its new postal voting rule go into effect. It did not await word from the 1st circuit on its appeal of the district court’s TRO before filing

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Clear-eyed analysis from Leah on what is fundamentally screwy about SCOTUS greenlighting Trump’s ballroom

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

BREAKING: By a 5–4 vote, Supreme Court greenlights construction of Trump‘s White House ballroom, for now. Chief Justice Roberts joins the three liberal justices in dissent

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months.

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One of the questions #SCOTUS will soon confront in the mail-in ballot cases is whether the so-called "Purcell principle" should apply to late-breaking changes in election rules adopted by the *federal* government, rather than the states. Today's "One First" explains why the answer ought to be "no":

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247. Should Purcell Apply to the Federal Government?

The justices have never been asked to apply the “Purcell principle” to a federal election rule. If asked to do so in the mail-in ballots cases, they shouldn't.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Plus: the majority goes out of its way to clarify that although the states don’t have standing to sue at the moment, that means nothing about the underlying legality of the EO, which the government has not attempted to defend at any point in this litigation

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump continue building his ballroom, for now.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My @economist.com story last week said Trump's attempt to grab control of mail-in voting looks doomed. Well, SCOTUS is *still* mum on his emergency plea to unblock the executive order. The midterms seem safe from this particular presidential shenanigan. www.economist.com/united-state...

economist.com

Donald Trump’s attack on mail-in voting looks doomed

A federal judge issues another blow to the president’s elections agenda

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is the “you can’t even THINK about race” theory SCOTUS denied cert on in the Thomas Jefferson High School case two years ago www.scotusblog.com/cases/coalit...

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Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board (23-170)

Supreme Court case (23-170) — tracked on SCOTUSblog.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My story this week @economist.com looks at Donald Trump’s tangled EO purporting to grab control of mail-in voting. His efforts are going nowhere fast. economist.com/united-state...

economist.com

Donald Trump’s attack on mail-in voting looks doomed

A federal judge issues another blow to the president’s elections agenda

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