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June 4

Longest opinion by Chief Justice Roberts

What opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts on the Supreme Court was his longest?—azuki (talk · contribs · email) 01:12, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't rightly know, but I can tell you that according to our articles on the opinions he's written, the total is 202 opinions, starting from 2005 term United States Supreme Court opinions of John Roberts and ending in 2019 term United States Supreme Court opinions of John Roberts. I can tell you that the person who would know (or be able to give you the answer in a moment) is Adam Feldman, who runs the Empirical SCOTUS blog, just based on this article, republished by SCOTUSblog. If you don't get a quick answer here you might want to tweet the question to @AdamSFeldman on Twitter. 199.66.69.67 (talk) 05:44, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think court opinions are usually written by law clerks anyway. The judge / justice tells them what to right, looks over the result and maybe directs changes, then signs off. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D (talk) 22:40, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reminds me of the question of who "owns" or should be given credit for a speech: the person who delivers it or the speech-writer. Paul Keating (PM of Australia) and Don Watson (his speech-writer) had a massive public falling-out over this very question, re the Redfern Park Speech. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 00:13, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's not quite that simple at the SCOTUS level. 199.66.69.67 (talk) 06:05, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]