Jill Barton
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Law professor | Author | Legal writing director at the University of Miami School of Law | Former journalist | Book no. 3: The Supreme Guide to Writing is now available from Oxford University Press!
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While the Supreme Court’s politics have veered right, the court’s language has gotten surprisingly progressive. Justices now use contractions, casual language, and personal pronouns to make their opinions more accessible to the public. https://buff.ly/4hat5Ec (@jillsbarton.bsky.social, U of Miami)
US Supreme Court is unabashedly liberal − in its writing style
While the Court’s politics have veered right over the past decade, the justices’ prose has shifted left, becoming more colloquial and accessible.
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January 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
While the Supreme Court’s politics have veered right, the court’s language has gotten surprisingly progressive. Justices now use contractions, casual language, and personal pronouns to make their opinions more accessible to the public. https://buff.ly/4hat5Ec (@jillsbarton.bsky.social, U of Miami)