Neil Siegel, here at Balkinization, continues the discussion of the timing of the Supreme Court’s end of term, and media reaction.  He says:

My experience has been that, as of 10 AM this morning, no one in the news media has wanted to talk about the Roberts Court’s monumental invalidation of the heart of the Voting Rights Act.

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If the Court had wanted to manipulate public opinion, it could not have ordered the opinions any more skillfully.

I take Neil’s point.  And I understand that the media respond to the news cycle, and that in any given news cycle, attention will immediately shift to respond to breaking national news.  But I can’t believe that the displacement is anything but temporary.  And I really can’t believe that public discussion and digestion of major constitutional cases depends on the vagaries of the immediate news cycle.  If it does, that speaks far more to a broader (and immensely serious) societal problem than to the need to reorder the way that Supreme Court opinions are handed down.