SCOTUS Blog·4 hours ago·Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 10:30 AM

Assessing the first round of oral arguments of the 2026-27 term

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson – typically the court’s most frequent speaker at oral argument – began the term relatively quietly. In Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, the first argued case, she spoke the fourth-most among the participating justices, accounting for only 12.1% of the court’s words. But that relative silence did not last.

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