Author Question: 0 In cases with a minimum winning coalition, the justice usually assigned to write the opinion is: ... (Read 44 times)

Ebrown · **on:** Jul 12, 2018

0 In cases with a minimum winning coalition, the justice usually assigned to write the opinion is:

a. the most senior member of the winning coalition
b. the most senior member of the dissenting coalition
c. the justice whose views are closest to the ideological middle
d. the chief justice

Question 2

If the chief justice is not in the majority when a case is decided, the responsibility for opinion assignment rests with:

a. the most junior justice on the court
b. the most senior associate justice in the minority
c. the chief justice's law clerks
d. the most senior associate justice in the majority