The End of the Supreme Court's Summer Vacation

After the universal injunction arguments on Thursday, media reports typically said that an opinion would come by the end of June. That's been the norm for decades, but I wonder if that's about to change.

Emergency applications are going to keep coming. The Court could choose to go on vacation and not deal with those during the summer. This is what they do with cert. petitions. Maybe there will then be two Long Conferences in September, one for the cert petitions and one for the emergency petitions. (Or, I suppose, a Super Long Conference that does both). But you can also imagine that the Court will just have to start working through the summer by addressing these motions on the papers or by holding the odd summer argument.

Furthermore, there is no particular reason why an emergency docket opinion must be done by the end of June. They heard argument later than usual and it's not part of the standard docket. Why not July or September? Traditions die hard, so I would expect this opinion to come out in June. But change is in the air.