• xyzzy@lemmy.today
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      11 days ago

      I hope she gets the big seat someday.

      That’s not how it works in the US.

      Edit: In many other countries the most senior justice becomes the chief justice by seniority, and I was saying that’s not how it works in the US. But it looks like there have been four times when an associate justice has been “promoted” to chief justice, which I didn’t realize. The first being John Rutledge in 1795 and Rehnquist being the most recent in 1986.