A September 28 report from SCOTUSblog concludes that the Supreme Court's summer recess this year was again a working period rather than a true break. The report answers a question the site's managing editor posed in a July 6 article about the major interim docket matters that kept the justices occupied during the previous summer recess.
In that earlier piece, the editor asked whether the justices would actually get a break this year. The new report says that, nearly three months later, the answer was essentially no. The editor describes a summer in which the court's workload continued to demand attention.
The article is based on the blog's own coverage and frames the interim period between terms as no longer a quiet stretch. It does not cite specific cases or decisions, focusing instead on the broader pattern of sustained activity during recess.