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Calling Balls And Strikes? Chief Justice Roberts In October Term 2019, Meghan Dalton
Calling Balls And Strikes? Chief Justice Roberts In October Term 2019, Meghan Dalton
Notre Dame Law Review
Part I of this Note will outline the scope of the assignment power, focusing on the strategic considerations a Chief Justice can make in assigning opinions. Part II will analyze Roberts’s voting and assignment patterns in October Term 2019, specifically applying the earlier discussions to his assignment choices in three key cases decided this term. Part III will focus on Chief Justice Roberts’s jurisprudential values and explore how these concerns might have informed his decision making in October Term 2019. Finally, this Note concludes by asking to what extent Roberts’s recent assignment choices are consistent with his signature promise to …