AP’s Mark Sherman explains in two tweets: “Why no orders today at #scotus? Tradition gives way to effort to avoid embarrassment of granting cases with lurking procedural hiccups.(1/2) Court taking 2nd look before agreeing to hear cases (begun last year). But still need to fill Jan argument slots. So later this week? (2/2)”

Some day someone should write about the bizarre way that #SCOTUS treats the SCOTUS press corps. Of course ,anyone who writes about the bizarre way that #SCOTUS treats SCOTUS press corps will no longer be welcome by Court as part of corps.