"You really ought to sue your high school for educational malpractice if that's what you learned in civics class. No court knows "all along" how it will rule, and no judge "yanked around" anyone."
And you really ought to live in the real world. In theory everything you wrote is true. But can we leave the classroom and step into reality. We have a federal judiciary which is loaded with activist judges that are sitting around waiting for cases to fall in their laps that will allow them to rule certain ways on various issues. These judges have agendas they are trying to forward. To imagine that this court hasn't already made up its mind on any future rulings in this case when faced with any future appeals is naive. The extension of the deadline to appeal to this court was cruel by the court. This would qualify as "yanking around" by any definition of the term.
"When a motion or petition is filed, the judges have to review the pleading and examine the applicable case law before even beginning to formulate a ruling."
Oh come on! Do you really believe this? You have a lot more faith in the 11th Circuit and the judicial system in general than I do. This court just last week (I think it's only been a week) denied a review of this case that the Congress specifically requested. There is no way possible that they reviewed the documentation and evidence related to this case as quickly as they ruled. They punted. The Congress said review the evidence and the federal jucidial system said screw you.
Your last paragraph is simply false and indicative of the willingness to believe falsehoods based upon nothing. The court did EXACTLY what Congress asked. AND it is one of the most conservative Districts in the nation.