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Eliminate the Summer Recess

A new series on SCOTUSBlog with recommendations for Unilateral Supreme Court Reform.

Josh Blackman | 7.28.2026 10:24 AM

I have written about bilateral judicial reform: how can Congress and the Supreme Court work together to reform the institution? In a new series for SCOTUSblog, I take a different approach: unilateral SCOTUS reform. What can the Supreme Court, acting alone, do better? These proposals are, in large part, a series of thought experiments. Some of them are admittedly off-the-wall and are unlikely to be adopted. Others may seem such common sense that they can be readily adopted. But all reconsider the status quo........

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