Who’s Interrupting Whom at the Supreme Court

Interruptions in Supreme Court oral arguments have increased in the past 25 years, but not because the court has become more polarized. Rather, they’ve gone up as more women joined the top court’s bench, a new study found this week.

It’s not that women interrupt more often — in fact, they interrupt far less. It’s that the women on the court are far more likely to be interrupted than their male counterparts.

That’s according to an analysis of oral argument transcripts from the high court’s 1990, 2002 and 2015 terms, conducted by Tonja Jacobia, a professor at Northwestern University’s Pritzker ...