Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote 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’re most likely to get lost in the news cycle.
— Kelsey Dallas, the managing editor for SCOTUSblog, in comments given in a recent article examining the Supreme Court’s tendency to release significant decisions in a “Friday news dump.” According to SCOTUSblog’s 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.
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