{"id":90044,"date":"2025-12-04T05:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90044"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:34:41","slug":"workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90044","title":{"rendered":"Workload"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>There are 3.8 million immigration cases pending.&nbsp; There are 685 immigration judges nationwide meaning each judge has 5547 pending cases to hear. Not counting new cases.&nbsp; The case backlog is years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump wanted to hire more immigration judges to deal with the backlog.&nbsp; I was thinking of applying.&nbsp; I have no immigration law experience but I have lots of courtroom expertise including presiding over hearings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If complex subjects like admiralty and bankruptcy can be taught, immigration can.&nbsp; Not every case demands a learned treatise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay so I&#8217;m not the best qualified but if you are hiring a boatload of people I might still qualify. Hour many are they hiring?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>115. Nationwide. Brings the total up to 800.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we have reduced each judges caseload to 4,750?&nbsp; Shaving 800 cases off each judges backlog is supposed to fix the problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That won&#8217;t reduce the backlog. That will only perpetuate it.&nbsp; The system IS the problem. What a farce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s only a farce if it was intended to work in the first place.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe isn&#8217;t test driving gavels just yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90045,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90044\/revisions\/90045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}