{"id":141915,"date":"2026-01-15T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/15\/the-supreme-courts-favorite-time-to-drop-bombshells-is-friday-afternoons\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:36:42","slug":"the-supreme-courts-favorite-time-to-drop-bombshells-is-friday-afternoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/15\/the-supreme-courts-favorite-time-to-drop-bombshells-is-friday-afternoons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court\u2019s Favorite Time To Drop Bombshells Is Friday Afternoons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[P]ublic engagement with the Supreme Court matters, and public engagement is dulled when decisions come late in the day and late in the week. Whether intentionally or not, the court regularly releases significant orders at exactly the time when they\u2019re most likely to get lost in the news cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Kelsey Dallas<\/a>, the managing editor for SCOTUSblog, in comments given in a recent article<\/a> examining the Supreme Court\u2019s tendency to release significant decisions in a \u201cFriday news dump.\u201d According to SCOTUSblog\u2019s research, over the past six months, more often than not, the high court announced its important decisions on a Thursday or Friday afternoon, with many of them released after 4 p.m. ET.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post The Supreme Court\u2019s Favorite Time To Drop Bombshells Is Friday Afternoons<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[P]ublic engagement with the Supreme Court matters, and public engagement is dulled when decisions come late in the day and late in the week. Whether intentionally or not, the court regularly releases significant orders at exactly the time when they\u2019re most likely to get lost in the news cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Kelsey Dallas<\/a>, the managing editor for SCOTUSblog, in comments given in a recent article<\/a> examining the Supreme Court\u2019s tendency to release significant decisions in a \u201cFriday news dump.\u201d According to SCOTUSblog\u2019s research, over the past six months, more often than not, the high court announced its important decisions on a Thursday or Friday afternoon, with many of them released after 4 p.m. ET.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. [P]ublic engagement with the Supreme Court matters, and public engagement is dulled when decisions come late in the day and late in the week. Whether intentionally or not, the court regularly releases significant orders at exactly the time when they\u2019re most likely to get lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141916,"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-141915","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\/Staci-Zaretsky-4lD1Jn.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141915","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=141915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}