Supreme Court Expansion

This is JosephSteve Vladeck has thrown down the gauntlet against Supreme court expansion with his four hard questions. They are good questions but I think that he is asking them when the hour is late. Far better when the house was not yet on fire.In particular:I think the problem here is that the options are now thin. If we look back just a few issues in Steve's newsletter we see:Last year’s post explained that the Court set two fairly revealing records on its emergency docket during OT2024—with 140 full Court rulings on applications and 31 grants of emergency relief. OT2025 came very close on the former front, with 133 full Court rulings. The number of grants “dropped” to 21, but that’s still a remarkable number compared to what was par for the course as recently as five years ago (when the averages were closer to 70 full Court rulings and 8-10 grants). And as has been true during every recent term, the divisions on the emergency docket were, once again, homogeneously…