There is a familiar rhythm to each U.S. Supreme Court term—the term begins with great excitement; a slow trickle of decisions emerge over the course of the next several months; everyone wonders what is taking so long to decide the “big ones;” the court ends with a bang of major decisions and impassioned dissents; and the justices seem to flee Washington to decompress for a few months while the jurisprudential dust settles across the country.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.