From the OC Register.
"Carter repeated said he was eager to get the matter settled.
“If President Obama fits the qualifications under the rules of the court, the longer the delay the more credibility it lends to the complaint,” he said. “If President Obama does not meet the court’s requirements, the delay also causes a problem.”
He even repeated it...wants this matter expedited.
All judges want matters expedited. Whether that means that he wants to see a trial on the merits - whatever they are is one thing.
Or it could mean that he doesn’t want to spend the next year reading badly-written motions and wants to get to dismissal as quickly as possible.
Judges say a lot of things - and most of them are to encourage settlement.
Case in point: back in my days as a law clerk, I was assisting on a property line dispute and the judge said in open court “Settle this before someone gets really hurt.”