#GAReads | Which Supreme Court Justices Get Interrupted the Most?

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“Which Supreme Court Justices Get Interrupted the Most?”

In the path-marking 2017 study “Justice Interrupted: The Effect of Gender, Ideology, and Seniority at Supreme Court Arguments,” Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers showed that female justices may be three times more likely to be interrupted than male justices, and that conservative justices were more likely to interrupt than liberal justices. I decided to try to find out whether the same was true for telephonic arguments. I also sought to examine how well the chief justice did at keeping the different justices on schedule and ensuring that each justice had roughly equal opportunities to speak. I listened to all of the arguments and marked when the chief justice or a questioning justice ended the time for a justice’s questioning, and when the chief justice signaled for another justice to start their questioning.

Read Leah Litman’s full article at Slate here…