An 82 year old Democrat appointed judge?! I said this on another thread today: how do the left always end up in front of Dem appointed leftist judges? Hundreds of Trump appointed Federal judges, and many holdovers from the Bush days, but they are never assigned to contentious cases between left and right. The rot in the Federal judiciary is much deeper than any of us understand.
Random case assignment.
“An 82 year old Democrat appointed judge?! I said this on another thread today: how do the left always end up in front of Dem appointed leftist judges? Hundreds of Trump appointed Federal judges, and many holdovers from the Bush days, but they are never assigned to contentious cases between left and right. The rot in the Federal judiciary is much deeper than any of us understand.”
You ask a really good question. While each district court has its own rules for the assignment of judges, the process is usually random unless the new case is related to another case or the judge has a specific expertise in the subject matter (in theory, the expertise is more than just “I hate Trump”). In addition, senior judges can generally set their workload, which means the judges can limit their case assignments.
The Western District of Washington, which includes the Seattle/Tacoma metro region, has two regular judges, five vacant positions ( no pending Trump nominees), and ten senior judges with an average age of 90+. The senior judges have the right to limit their caseload and many of them administer no more than a handful of cases at any given time. At least four of the judges on the senior division date to the Regan administration, and they age between 80 and 91. None of the judges were appointed by DJT. There is a really good chance that these judges have a limited caseload. While there may be other judicial districts that screw with the judicial assignments, this one seams legit.