Maine's chief justice recently said that she met a judge who was discouraged " because she cannot make headway regardless of how many cases she jams into dockets or how late she works."
No one here is under any illusions that a two-state solution, that final status negotiations are on the docket for later this week, or later this month, or maybe even later this year.
It's a typical day at the U.S. immigration court in Miami, there were 36 children on the docket in the morning and 30 more in the afternoon- with just four judges.
" I've got three items on the docket. First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room." He nodded toward an elephant officer. " Francine, happy birthday."
In New York, the acting chief judge said during his state-of-the-judiciary message this year that " staffing shortages slow down our dockets and burden our already-strained workforce."
The most likely explanation for his dissent was that he flinched at the optics: Alabama's request for a stay had arrived on the Court's " shadow docket."