State budget cuts to appellate courts

See Judicial Council to Take Action on $97 Million Required Cut to Trial Courts -- State budget also contains a commensurate reduction of up to 7.95% to the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, and Judicial Council.

See also, in the ABA Journal, Chemerinsky: SCOTUS term reveals deeply divided justices frustrated with one another

I would describe them as “nine angry scorpions in a bottle.” There is a strong sense that it is a deeply divided court. There were a total of 59 opinions, and 23 were 6-3 and another five were 5-4.

Law.com has What We Learned From the Supreme Court's Latest Blockbuster Term -- While the justices take a break from the daily grind of opinion writing, the country is still reeling from a Supreme Court term that delivered politically charged decisions on issues from abortion to guns to fundamental questions about the separation of powers.