CR Archive | Re: The Supreme Court is no longer able to keep pace with the tremendous

The Supreme Court is no longer able to keep pace with the tremendous number of cases it
agrees to decide. The Court schedules and hears 160 hours of oral argument each year, and
108 hours of next year’s term will be taken up by cases left over from this year. Certainly the
Court cannot be asked to increase its already burdensome hours. The most reasonable
long-range solution to this problem is to allow the Court to decide many cases without hearing
oral argument; in this way the Court might