This Supreme Court is slow to issue rulings — glacially slow

Nevertheless, the slow pace at which rulings have been issued this term has started to attract scrutiny from court watchers.

All of the court's major cases are yet to be decided, on issues like President Joe Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt, affirmative action in college admissions, voting rights and the knotty question of whether owners of creative businesses can refuse to work on same-sex weddings.The number of rulings so far this term is lower than it was on the same day in even the most recent terms, which also lagged behind the norm.

"I think the court is slower this year, but it has been pretty slow in recent years, too," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a member of the court's 6-3 conservative majority, downplayed the delay in issuing decisions in January, saying at a public event that the court was "off and running" and that he was confident all the rulings would be issued by the end of June.

The court usually decides the easier cases first, those in which no justices dissent, but this term, of the 14 cases the court has issued full rulings on, only eight have been unanimous. The court was divided 5-4 in two cases and 6-3 in three others. The court dismissed one case without issuing a written ruling.

Court experts differed on whether the crunch would have any impact on how the court actually decides cases. It could lead to shorter rulings, fewer separate concurring or dissenting opinions, or even narrower decisions in which the court avoids broad pronouncements on the law.

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