The big ideas from Biden’s Supreme Court commission, explained - The Washington Post

"Emergency orders breaking down 6-3 or 5-4 along ideological lines have multiplied in recent years, indicating that the Court increasingly is deciding contested legal questions through cursory and relatively nontransparent emergency procedures," the report states. "During the 2017 Term, there were five orders from which at least three Justices publicly dissented; during the 2020 Term, there were 29 such orders. This increase has occurred even while the merits docket has remained at historically low levels, and during the 2019 Term there were nearly as many 5-4 decisions among emergency rulings as on the merits docket."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/08/big-ideas-bidens-supreme-court-commission-explained/