Mark Joseph Stern

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Mark Joseph Stern
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Stern in 2025
Born1991 (age 33–34)
Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater Georgetown University (BA, JD)
Occupation(s)Author, political commentator, journalist
Movement Progressivism in the US
Website Personal website

Mark Joseph Stern (born 1991) is an American journalist and commentator. He is a senior writer covering courts and the law, especially the Supreme Court, for Slate . [1] [2]

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He frequently appears on television, especially on MSNBC, [3] [4] and in podcasts, [5] [6] commenting on legal and social issues. In addition to the Supreme Court, his areas of expertise include LGBTQ+ equality, [7] reproductive rights, [8] U.S. territorial law and criminal justice. [9] [3] [10]

He has co-authored law review articles about free speech, [11] gay rights, [12] and transgender equality. [10] [13]

Education and career

Stern received a B.A. in history and art history from Georgetown University in 2013 and obtained a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2016. In 2016 he was admitted to the Maryland Bar. [14]

He began working as an intern for Slate in August 2012 and continued there while attending law school at Georgetown. He became a full-time contributor and staff writer in 2016, and in February 2022, he was promoted to his current position as senior writer. [1]

At Slate he covers the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate and district courts, and state and local courts. He has published articles in The Wall Street Journal , The Week , and The American Prospect . [14]

Stern regularly speaks at universities, law schools, [2] law firms, businesses, bar associations, and other non-profits. [15] He has appeared on NPR [16] and his frequent appearances on television include Alex Wagner Tonight , [3] All In with Chris Hayes , [4] The Katie Phang Show, [17] The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, [18] Katy Tur Reports, [19] The Weekend with Jonathan Capeheart [20] and Deadline: White House with Ali Velshi. [21]

He co-hosts weekly bonus episodes of the podcast Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick for Slate Plus members. [6] Other podcasts he has appeared on include The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller, [5] The Majority Report with Sam Seder , [22] The Gist with Michelangelo Signorile, [23] [24] and How I Lawyer with Jonah Perlin. [25]

Personal life

Stern was born in Tallahassee, Florida in 1991. He is the son of former Florida State University College of Law professor Nat Stern with whom he sometimes co-authors. [26] His grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. [27]

Mark is Jewish and gay. He married his husband Tyler in 2018. They welcomed the birth of their son in October 2023. [28]

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References

  1. 1 2 Stories by Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
  2. 1 2 Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Hosts Inaugural "Supreme Court Term in Review" Event Georgetown Law, July 15, 2024
  3. 1 2 3 'MAGA pilled': As mask slips on Supreme Court bias, radical Christian agenda comes into focus Alex Wagner Tonight, June 13, 2024
  4. 1 2 DeSantis election integrity stunt All In with Chris Hayes, August 30, 2022
  5. 1 2 A Bad Day for Jack Smith The Bulwark with Tim Miller, April 25, 2024
  6. 1 2 Dear Jurisprudence: Why Don’t Voters Care About the Dang Courts? Dahlia Lithwick, December 31, 2024
  7. ↑ Federal Judge Shuts Down Trump Administration’s Discrimination Against Children of Same-Sex Couples, Slate, February 22, 2019
  8. ↑ Dobbs Was Always Just the Beginning by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
  9. ↑ Supreme Court hears case on criminal penalties for people living without shelter Celeste Headlee speaks with Mark Joseph Stern, NPR (WBUR), April 22, 2024
  10. 1 2 A New Test to Reconcile the Right of Publicity with Core First Amendment Values by Mark Joseph Stern and Nat Stern, Journal of Intellectual Property Law , vol 23 #1, 2015
  11. ↑ Advancing an Adaptive Standard of Strict Scrutiny for Content-Based Commercial Speech Regulation by Nat Stern and Mark Stern, University of Richmond Law Review , Vol. 47, 2012, October 5, 2012
  12. ↑ Test to Identify and Remedy Anti-Gay Bias in Child Custody Decisions After Obergefell by Mark Joseph Stern, Karen Oehme and Nat Stern, UCLA Women's Law Journal , 2016: Vol 23, #2
  13. ↑ The Judicial and Generational Dispute Over Transgender Right Mark J. Stern et al., 29 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 159, March 1, 2018
  14. 1 2 Supreme Court Term in Review Panelist: Mark Joseph Stern, University of California, Irvine School of Law, July 6, 2022
  15. ↑ Conference on World Affairs: 2022 Speaker University of Colorado Boulder
  16. ↑ What's at stake in the Supreme Court transgender care case? Here & Now Anytime, NPR, December 4, 2024
  17. ↑ Clarence Thomas' gifts and luxury travel have 'no comparison in modern American history Katie Phang, December 28, 2024
  18. ↑ ‘Very stormy rhetoric’: Justices crush effort to keep Trump off the ballot 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle March 5, 2024
  19. ↑ What to expect if SCOTUS rules on Trump's immunity Katy Tur, January 9, 2024
  20. ↑ 'Get ready for a big mess': Supreme Court's Trump immunity decision expected next week Jonathan Capehart, June 23, 2024
  21. ↑ New reporting details Justice Thomas’ complaints over his Supreme Court salary Deadline: White House with Ali Velshi
  22. ↑ Crumbling Wall Of Church & State The Majority Report with Sam Seder, June 9, 2022
  23. ↑ How Are Gay Rights Cases Helping The Legal Case Against Trump's Muslim Ban? SiriusXM News & Issues
  24. ↑ I Asked for More Gay Kisses. Now We’re Getting Them. by Mark Joseph Stern, Slate, May 14, 2014
  25. ↑ Episode #017: Mark Joseph Stern (Legal Journalist at Slate) howilawyer.substack with Jonah Perlin, April 26, 2021
  26. ↑ Stern, Mark Joseph (October 2, 2022). "Inside the Law School Meltdown the Supreme Court Has Unleashed". Slate.
  27. ↑ The Lesson Henry Kissinger Took When He Liberated the Concentration Camp That Held My Grandfather by Mark Joseph Stern, November 30, 2023, Slate
  28. ↑ I am a gay jew in Trump’s America. And I am afraid for my life by Mark Joseph Stern, Slate, November 9, 2016
  29. ↑ Schultz, David (July 2, 2020). "American Justice 2019: The Roberts Court Arrives: by Mark Joseph Stern". New Political Science. 42 (3): 473–475. doi:10.1080/07393148.2020.1809797.
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