SCOTUS Interruptus: Speech Patterns and Opinion Authorship of Female U.S. Supreme Court Justices

• In Event: Text as Data in Judicial Politics

Brief Overview

Have women changed the Supreme Court as an institution? We consider the impact of interruptions on opinion content to better explain the connection between oral arguments and opinion authorship, especially as the number of female justices increases.

Authors

• Alison Higgins Merrill, Susquehanna University

• Nicholas D. Conway, San Francisco State University

• Morgan E. Winkler, Clemson University