In his foreword to the Clerk's Annual Report for 2023, Chief Judge Rowan Wilson noted that last fall, the court made two changes in its internal processes regarding oral arguments. It assigned "variable (usually longer) argument times, instead of nominally assigning each party ten minutes and then allowing some arguments to continue longer." This change was made to enable counsel to "best structure their presentations to give the best performance in support of their clients." Frequently, the judges engage counsel in quite a bit of questioning and the argument is allowed to continue well beyond the time limit.