Supreme Court justices are speaking out about the rising number of emergency requests accumulating during their summer recess, many of which surround Republican-led challenges to the Biden administration‘s environmental regulations.

Speaking during an appearance at the New York University School of Law on Monday, Democratic-appointed Justice Elena Kagan suggested the Supreme Court would be better off spending less time handling a flurry of unanticipated petitions, which often result in short-term resolutions that do not fix the underlying problems brought by litigants.