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Study: Ketanji Brown Jackson Speaks More Than Twice As Much As Any Of Her Fellow Justices

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Study: Ketanji Brown Jackson Speaks More Than Twice As Much As Any Of Her Fellow Justices

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If there’s one thing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson loves to do more than anything during Supreme Court oral arguments, it’s talk — and talk, and talk, and talk some more.

On Thursday, The New York Times reported on a new study that found Jackson is “by far the most talkative justice” on the court over the past two decades. Spanning from October 2005 to April 2026, the analysis found that the Biden appointee spoke an average of 1,263 words per case in the four short years she’s been on the bench — a figure the outlet noted is “more than double the justices’ average.”

“According to the study, [Jackson] speaks 23 percent of the words uttered by the justices,” the report reads.

The study found that the closest justice to rival Jackson in the number of words spoken per case is her former boss and predecessor, retired Justice Stephen Breyer, who clocked in at 818 words per case. In the years Jackson’s been on the court, that second-place ranking belongs to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, at 791 words.

The Times offered three possible explanations for this trend. This includes the theory that Jackson, “understanding she will be on the losing end of many cases on a court where conservatives hold a supermajority, may view her questioning as an opportunity to reach beyond the courtroom and communicate with the public directly through the live-streamed arguments.”

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