The justice still gets to decide what language and arguments make it into the final opinion. The clerks are their to take some of the load off their shoulders.

The justice still gets to decide what language and arguments make it into the final opinion. The clerks are their to take some of the load off their shoulders. The supreme court produces a lot of writing every year for nine people and they cam be very hairy technical issues, of course they have a staff to assist them in research and drafting.