This SCOTUS Justice Hasn't Written The Majority Opinion In A Major Case In 6 Years

Which justice could it be?

[Sonia Sotomayor] is the only justice to have received no salient opinion assignments from the chief during her six terms on the court. Zero is inherently unique and in this particular context could be a bit portentous.

— Professor Richard J. Laz­arus of Harvard Law School, commenting in a new study published in the Harvard Law Review on the fact that Chief Justice John Roberts has yet to assign the majority opinion in a major case to Justice Sonia Sotomayor since she was appointed to the Supreme Court.

(Lazarus found that Roberts is less likely to assign big decisions to justices on either side of the Court’s political poles — Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are viewed as too conservative, while Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are viewed as too liberal.)

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