WaPo: Chief justice favors some when assigning court’s major decisions

WaPo: Chief justice favors some when assigning court’s major decisions by Robert Barnes:

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is a stickler for evenly distributing the workload of the Supreme Court, but he plays favorites among his eight colleagues when assigning the court’s most important decisions.

Not surprisingly, Roberts calls his own number more than anyone else’s and assigns the next highest number to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the pivotal justice on the ideologically divided court, according to a new study by Harvard law professor Richard J. Lazarus published in the Harvard Law Review.