The Supreme Court’s Summer Break Vanishes

“Chief Justice John Roberts is a fan of the Supreme Court’s long summer recess. After the sharp divisions and biting dissents that always emerge at the end of the term in late June or early July, he has said, the justices need some time to cool down before they return to the bench,” the New York Times reports.

Said Roberts: “We do need a little break from each other.”

“That break is vanishing as emergency applications have started to dominate the court’s docket. Those intense and abbreviated proceedings, often yielding nominally temporary but vastly consequential rulings, have changed the way the justices work.”