‘Tenth Justice’ Shorts Supreme Court, Case Deadline Looms (2)

The U.S. Supreme Court’s “Tenth Justice” isn’t making it easy for the real justices to fill out their docket, contributing to what may turn out to be another low number of cases for a full term.

The justices considered on Friday whether to take up eight cases at their private conference that it had earlier asked U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco to weigh in on. But Francisco, the Trump administration’s point man at the court, has recommended that it pass on all of them.

The court could say as early as Monday if it followed Francisco’s recommendation but, as the ...