{"id":152664,"date":"2026-05-22T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/22\/scotus-opinions-keep-getting-snippier-and-there-may-be-a-reason-why\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:29:06","slug":"scotus-opinions-keep-getting-snippier-and-there-may-be-a-reason-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/22\/scotus-opinions-keep-getting-snippier-and-there-may-be-a-reason-why\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Opinions Keep Getting Snippier \u2014 And There May Be A Reason Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes, we forget that they are people<\/strong>. They are not, as one of my students elegantly put it, law robots. They have feelings and emotions, and they can\u2019t keep them under wraps all the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Jessica A. Schoenherr<\/a>, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Georgia, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning some of the \u201csnippy language\u201d justices of the Supreme Court have used in some of their recent opinions. Schoenherr has studied interpersonal relationships among the justices as part of her academic work.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post SCOTUS Opinions Keep Getting Snippier \u2014 And There May Be A Reason Why<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes, we forget that they are people<\/strong>. They are not, as one of my students elegantly put it, law robots. They have feelings and emotions, and they can\u2019t keep them under wraps all the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Jessica A. Schoenherr<\/a>, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Georgia, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning some of the \u201csnippy language\u201d justices of the Supreme Court have used in some of their recent opinions. Schoenherr has studied interpersonal relationships among the justices as part of her academic work.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. Sometimes, we forget that they are people. They are not, as one of my students elegantly put it, law robots. They have feelings and emotions, and they can\u2019t keep them under wraps all the time. \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Jessica A. Schoenherr, an assistant professor of political science at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-9CHgpd.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}