According to USA statues, the SCOTUS session started first Monday in October (1st). Does the new guy get to butt-in into the hearings, or is it Wait Until Next Year (2019)?
A Term of the Supreme Court begins, by statute, on the first Monday in October. Usually Court sessions continue until late June or early July. The Term is divided between "sittings," when the Justices hear cases and deliver opinions, and intervening "recesses," when they consider the business before the Court and write opinions. Sittings and recesses alternate at approximately two-week intervals.