--- title: Supreme Court ‘Manterruption’ description: Northwestern law professor Tonja Jacobi and student Dylan Schweers used transcripts to analyze the Supreme Court's oral arguments from 2004 to 2015 and created a... canonical: https://time.com/4800791/supreme-court-manterruption/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-01T11:04:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:12:19.310Z article:section: Politics og:title: Supreme Court ‘Manterruption’ og:description: Northwestern law professor Tonja Jacobi and student Dylan Schweers used transcripts to analyze the Supreme Court's oral arguments from 2004 to 2015 and created a... og:url: https://time.com/4800791/supreme-court-manterruption/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Supreme Court ‘Manterruption’ twitter:description: Northwestern law professor Tonja Jacobi and student Dylan Schweers used transcripts to analyze the Supreme Court's oral arguments from 2004 to 2015 and created a... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Supreme Court 'Manterruption'  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jun 1, 2017 11:04 AM UTC  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jun 1, 2017 11:04 AM UTC Northwestern law professor Tonja Jacobi and student Dylan Schweers used transcripts to analyze the Supreme Court’s oral arguments from 2004 to 2015 and created a data set of all the interruptions by Justices or advocates. Here are some of their findings, as reported in the online journal Aeon: 24% Average percentage of female Justices on the Court bench over the 12 years studied 32% Percentage of interruptions that happened to female Justices 4% Percentage of interruptions made by female Justices 3x Factor by which female Justices were more likely to be interrupted than male Justices from 2011 to 2015 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4800791/supreme-court-manterruption/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4800791/supreme-court-manterruption/"},"headline":"Supreme Court 'Manterruption'","datePublished":"2017-06-01T11:04:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:12:19.310Z","description":"Northwestern law professor Tonja Jacobi and student Dylan Schweers used transcripts to analyze the Supreme Court's oral arguments from 2004 to 2015 and created a...","url":"https://time.com/4800791/supreme-court-manterruption/","keywords":["Supreme Court"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/supreme-court/","name":"Supreme Court"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4800791/supreme-court-manterruption/","name":"Supreme Court 'Manterruption'"}}]}] ```