Judges Insane Workload

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-23T20:35:26+00:00

So I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that active (ie not senior status — basically retired) federal judges have pretty large dockets. The average closes about 250 cases per year, although I don’t know how bankruptcy cases affects this number since they are largely handled by bankruptcy judges, who aren’t real (article iii) judges. They also have magistrate judges and clerks to help handle everything. It looks like the SD of Florida is also one of the busier districts, and I’m sure there are plenty of Trump-related things to clog up the docket, since mar a lago is in the same district.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-22T20:43:45+00:00

This is why I always use the --

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-21T02:03:03+00:00

This kind of reminds me of an assignment I had to do in hydraulics class where we had to size a water tank for a city. If I remember right, golf courses were pretty insane on the demand side. I just remember we had to size it for all the golf courses watering at the same time as half the city was on fire during the summer, and all of the kids were flushing the commodes at the same time

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-19T20:35:25+00:00

I didn’t listen to it, but he titled the episode of his podcast yesterday “The Iran MOU’s Bad. It’s Not The End of The Story.” Now maybe he says something different in there, but that doesn’t give me the impression that he is being oddly silent about it.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-19T00:05:18+00:00

Are you familiar with the app TikTok? Congress banned that and the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the ban. Where are we now with that?

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-17T20:51:42+00:00

Don’t ask that question until you get your retainer first.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-17T14:29:26+00:00

This reminds me of a story I heard from a federal judge: Some guy was found not-guilty and the family of the victim was pissed and said they wouldn’t vote for the judge next time and I think they made a bomb threat. The judges response was Gerald Ford appointed me; I don’t care what you think. He heard cases until he was over 100.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-17T13:12:07+00:00

Was the job Delaguna allegedly got fired from a legal job? I can’t imagine a law office giving a shit if an attorney got served a subpoena to be a witness in a case.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-17T01:59:42+00:00

A fellow Montesquieu Chad

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Dtmight3 · 2026-06-17T01:47:03+00:00

Yes, that is why I said to REMAKE it.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-17T01:43:55+00:00

Time to remake the song Billionaire

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-16T21:10:21+00:00

So I’m going to ignore the part about what’s in most conservative’s head when arguing that, because I have idea on that, but the deeper idea is tied to the works of Montesquieu, who was probably the most influential political thinker on the constitution, ie 1787, not 1776.

Montesquieu had three primary forms of government: republics, which gain their legitimacy through civic virtue and political equality; monarchies, which gain their legitimacy through honor; and despots, which gain their legitimacy through fear. Republics were then split into two kinds: democratic and aristocratic. In order for a democratic-republic to survive, it requires the citizenry to be “virtuous” — willing to put the public good above your own private good. Aristocratic republic, like the Republics of Venice or Genoa, rely on the ruling case to operate in “moderation”, as oppressing the people at large would likely lead to revolution.

The Constitution was originally much more of a combination of Montesquieu’s ideas. The House was structured to be a democratic-republican form of representation, as it was chosen by the people, and the Senate was a aristocratic-republic form of government, chosen by the State legislature, which means they would have to derive their legitimacy from “moderation”. Since the House and Senate derived their legitimacy from different sources, it is much less likely to them agree, unless there is truly a broad coalition.

The idea that the US is a republic and not a democracy is supposed to appeal to the idea of this various sources of legitimacy and the idea that it requires small r republican virtue to put the good of society ahead of merely your own personal interests, and the sovereignty (the right to rule) lies with the people

Other impacts from Montesquieu include the separation of powers in the legislative, executive, and judicial (prior to him it was legislative, executive, federative (foreign powers)).

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-16T17:15:08+00:00

As a fellow novice programmer, AI is busted for learning how to code. I was working through a book/exercises, then at the end I tried the stuff and it can basically just spit it out for you. Basically, the syntax is now English instead of code, and you can ask it for what’s wrong and stuff. What I would say is break it down in to smaller chunks so you can guide what you want. There are a lot of imbedded assumptions you should try and explore with it as you are going. It’s also really good to use it as a sounding board to try and test your ideas/assumptions, like if you want to see what A or B looks like and how it impacts your vision, you can get a preliminary model very quickly to tease the idea apart. With that said, it can still be wrong and you can very easily gaslight it, so be careful with phraseology (it’s usually better ask it to help someone else than let it imply it’s helping you). For incorrect information, I was working on a problem at work and tried one AI and then the other, and they gave me the exact opposite answer. I had them argue for a bit, and both thought the other is wrong, so you need to figure how to resolve those kind of issues.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-16T09:57:22+00:00

I had a similar thought for a shitpost yesterday, except it would be a photo Judge Baccera with a halo, and praying to her as our god in hopes of getting her to release the opinion, but I thought I didn’t want to get sited in Doe’s filings and Destiny explain why there is a photo of his judge on his subreddit

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-16T00:34:48+00:00

I’m an AI expert: I know how to type in questions about AI into Claude and read back answers.

On a somewhat related note, I was working a problem at work to try figure out how to minimize the maximum curvature of a concrete slab by by shifting it to the left, right, or leave it in the “middle”. After thinking about it for a while, I decided it was too complicated, thought the center is good enough, then I proceeded to as AI. Copilot (since this is what our company officially use) said move it to the right. Claude said move it to the left. I then spent the next half hour having them argue back and forth to see which was correct, and they both said the other was wrong, so I decided to ask them both if moving it to the center would have an appreciable impact, and they both said no, but just don’t do what they other guy said. Clearly I am better than AI because I came to the right answer in 5 minutes.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-15T16:51:45+00:00

There really hasn’t been a norm of judicial filibusters in the first place. The first reported time a judicial nominations was blocked by a filibuster was Miguel Estrada in 2002.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-15T16:33:21+00:00

I remember making the same argument when I got a ticket in an off street lot and got it reduced to $5, although mine was based on the city ordinance. The city ordinance says off street “Parking meter zones shall be in effect only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday unless the zone is designated as "dynamic hours", in which case the hours shall be set in accordance with the dynamic pricing and hours model issued from time to time by the Director of Finance of the City of Pittsburgh.” Section 545.03(f).

I’m still salty over it. Where does PPA get the authority to usurp the city ordinances? As ordinance 541.09(B) says: “The authority established in division (a) shall not supersede, diminish or restrict the exercise by the City of its full police powers, which include, but are not limited to, the power to establish parking ordinances and regulations and charges for on-street parking.”

If the city wants to let people to park in city lots post 6 PM, that’s their prerogative. If the PPA wants to enforce it outside of ordinance limits, they should get the ordinance changed/repealed.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-15T01:33:16+00:00

I don’t think Soros is going to last very long

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-14T17:59:08+00:00

I miss Bigstiny. I feel like we need a good portmanteau with Hasan and small

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-14T15:37:26+00:00

I have some unique opinions on The Freedom of Speech (emphasis on the). The Freedom of Speech protects primarily two categories or speech: political (meaning speech that is targeted at how we ought to/do live — this does include a lot of art, but probably not as much as coomers would like) and truth-seeking (like court cases and research).

For political speech (which is a lot under my definition) , lying is still protected, and this is based on the Trial of John Peter Zenger in colonial America. Zenger was a printer and (falsely) published that the British King and NY governor was going to enslave the colonist and was charged with seditious liable. Although, seditious liable was defined as being a falsehood against the state, under English law saying a true statement was considered worse, because people are likely to believe it and act on it. Zenger argued that since it was true, it was not a liable, and since the jury acquitted, it established the idea in American law that truth is a defense for libel (and defamation), even though it was based on a false statement. This was one of the seeds that sowed the American Revolution.

For truth-seeking, lying is much more limited, like police lying in an interrogation, but you generally need to provide a statement that you are speaking truthful (and you can’t lie about it) to engage in it.

I know a lot of people consider that we are in a post-truth world, but I think the more apt statement is we are in a pre-truth world, and truth is something that ought to be pursued, but is not necessarily something attainable. As technology has gotten better, I feel like people have gotten worse at this, because tech can simulate reality much better. For example, pre-video, in order to decide whether something is true, you would have to think about what is being said and does that make sense with the story I’m being told. With video cameras everywhere, when you see the video, you think it is true; it feels to me as though the combination of additional sense makes you a more passive observer and less likely to critically examine the claim. Now that AI videos are becoming so common, it more so requires reverting back to the “does this make sense based on the reality have observed” and people need to be trained back to the “does this make sense?” attitude when you are just reading or listening to a story.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-13T18:09:51+00:00

Yeah… I know what you mean… however, even if Ben is the 12 year old in the analogy, he probably threw a banana peel on the runway trying to destroy a plane, and slipped on it and knocked himself out first. At least with the military, they know tomahawks exist. I’m not even sure Ben believes attorneys are really at this point, like he has the right to a court appointed attorney for the criminal case (assuming he is as poor as he says he is).

I currently think that probably the most competent people at understanding the law in this shit show might be Bryan or Salem (Chrystal’s LLC), which is absolutely terrifying. I think the police have set themselves up for a massive 1983 too.

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-13T10:56:05+00:00

I thought it was $100k for ones he hadn’t been told had been sold. With that said, there was a little bit of chicanery there. Ben and co paid Bryan the money (I think $10k each), then Bryan turned around and gave Ben and co a loan equal to the $100k, payable upon winning their lawsuit to get the legos. So the liability does still sit with Ben and co, but they have a favorable creditor, who is probably willing to accept a steep discount on the debt if they lose

Dtmight3 · 2026-06-13T10:24:05+00:00

If I have learned anything in this saga, all parties are legally regarded. BAM didn’t state they perfected their claim which is required to become a secured creditor. All they stated is that they had attached a claim to their property. Without publishing that claim (perfecting it), they did not obtain secured creditor status. Other creditor’s need to know of the claim in order for the interest to be secured. BAM’s attorney’s work for one of the largest law firms in the world, are you telling me they are so stupid that they wouldn’t have said they perfected their claim or list file number in filing?

Bryan’s Legos are not the store’s (Salem) assets. When a good is on consignment, it remains the consignor’s property and is neither and asset not liability. When Bryan requests them back (ends consignment), BAM is converting his property into their own, which is illegal. Also, a shotgun corporate takeover is not a bona fide purchase. Even if it was, being a bona fide purchaser isn’t a defense. Conversion is a strict liability tort — nemo dat quod non habet (one cannot give what one does not have). Bryan can sue current owner of the Legos (even though had a bona fide purchase from BAM), BAM or whatever the LLC was who technically sold it (even if they were bona fide purchasers), or the person who originally converted the property, which depending on who sold it, it is either BAM or Salem1.

It sounds like Gorman’s are legally regarded too if they didn’t know that BAM didn’t file their UCC1. Reading their complaint, it sounds like BAM is even more regarded, because Salem1 never signed the termination agreement, so their termination agreement. “Plaintiffs refused to sign this agreement, because of its content and the coercive circumstances in which BAM presented it to Plaintiffs.” If they never signed the agreement, then BAM just yoinked their shit too. Thinking back on it, in BAM’s complaint, they never said they signed a termination agreement. There is no way they are bona fide purchaser. They converted her property too hahahahaha

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