We here at USDemocrazy are constantly bamboozled by judges, courts and legal stuff like that (BTW isn’t bamboozled a cool word?).
When it comes to being bamboozled, few things can be more head-scratching than our nation’s Supreme Court!
For example, the Supreme Court now suffers from a shrinking docket (sounds painful).
Actually this docket is the term used to describe the cases that a court hears.
This article from NYTimes tells us
In the early 1980s, the Supreme Court decided more than 150 cases a year. These days, it decides about half that many.
It turns out that the Supreme Court justices, we prefer to call them “The Supremes”, get more than 8000 requests each year for cases to review. They select around 80.
So how do they select these cases? And why so few?
A couple of weeks ago, some smart folks at Yale Law School held a conference to explore the mystery of the court’s shrinking docket.
Guess what? Everyone at the conference turned to be nearly as bamboozled as we are!
No definitive answers were reached.
But maybe you have the answer! Do you have the cure for a shrinking docket? Are the Supremes working hard or hardly working?
