America's Funniest Justice: Scalia gets 19 Laughs this Week!

November 5th, 2009

From DC Dicta, here are the standings of the Justices and how many laughs they got this past week:

Justice Antonin Scalia: 19

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.: 10

Justice Stephen Breyer: 6 (Handicapped by laryngitis)

Justice Anthony Kennedy: 3

Justice John Paul Stevens: 2

Justice Samuel Alito: 1

Justice Clarence Thomas (Thomas has remained silent during oral arguments since Feb. 22, 2006): 0

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 0

Justice Sonia Sotomayor: 0

Check out the running tally in the Funniest Justice Contest here.

For someone who asks a lot of questions, Justice Sotomayor does not get many laughs.