{"id":141619,"date":"2026-01-12T16:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/12\/supreme-courts-delayed-gratification\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:36:25","slug":"supreme-courts-delayed-gratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/12\/supreme-courts-delayed-gratification\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court\u2019s Delayed Gratification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to The New York Times, the Supreme Court\u2019s first opinion in an argued case this term (<em>Bowe v. United States<\/em>) arrived in January 2026. Over the last 80 years, how many times before has SCOTUS waited until January to issue its first argued opinion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: This delay is being attributed to a spike in emergency docket activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/supreme-courts-delayed-gratification\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court\u2019s Delayed Gratification<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to The New York Times, the Supreme Court\u2019s first opinion in an argued case this term (<em>Bowe v. United States<\/em>) arrived in January 2026. Over the last 80 years, how many times before has SCOTUS waited until January to issue its first argued opinion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: This delay is being attributed to a spike in emergency docket activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/supreme-courts-delayed-gratification\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/supreme-courts-delayed-gratification\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The New York Times, the Supreme Court\u2019s first opinion in an argued case this term (Bowe v. United States) arrived in January 2026. Over the last 80 years, how many times before has SCOTUS waited until January to issue its first argued opinion? Hint: This delay is being attributed to a spike in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-1399070257-tW3Typ.jpg?fit=723%2C482&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}