Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson – the newest justice to the bench – spoke more than any other justice on the high court during arguments for the current term.

She spoke more than 78,800 words, which is also the most for a first-term justice during arguments since 1990, according to Adam Feldman, Supreme Court scholar and creator of the EmpiricalSCOTUS blog.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor came in second and Justice Elena Kagan came in third for the most words spoken during arguments, making the three Democratic-appointed justices the most vocal on the court.

“There is the liberal justices argument … where they pretty much know they will be on the losing side of any ideologically laden case so at least they can air out their positions at oral argument,” Mr. Feldman said.