“When they come out of oral argument… they take a vote at a secret meeting… if the chief justice is in the majority, he gets to assign the opinion.”
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Supreme Court clerk speaker
Bloomberg Law ·
“He assigned a third of them to Justice Kagan… because she's more likely to write an opinion that isn't polarizing… preserve the majority.”
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assigns majority opinion writing to a justice who is likely to produce a non-polarizing draft that preserves the existing majority vote
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