Supreme Court’s Shrinking Docket Is Increasingly Backloaded
The Supreme Court hears fewer cases than it used to, and justices write more separate opinions. Another change in the Court’s docket has been that it’s increasingly backloaded. The Court doesn’t grant enough cases in the spring for the coming Fall, so the next term’s cases get pushed later, contributing to the June (or even July) crunch of opinions at the end.
Kimberly Robinson of Bloomberg reports:
The justices have so far granted more than two dozen cases to be heard in their upcoming term, a handful short of the number needed to fill the court’s first three argument sittings in October, November, and December. For a court that’s hearing around 60 cases a term, that’s a significant share of the workload pushed back.
The slow start means the justices will have to make up the deficit, creating a domino effect when hearing more ca
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