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To: untenured

His real power though - as Chief Justice - is the ability to assign the person to write the opinion whenever he’s in the majority. So, he could assign himself to blunt what might be an enormous victory for conservatives by significantly watering it down.

He could be a real spoiler that way.


8 posted on 04/10/2021 2:38:49 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: ScubaDiver

But if the five other justices write concurrences with different reasoning, does his opinion really count?


16 posted on 04/10/2021 2:52:31 PM PDT by Czech_Occidentalist
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