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Dennis Donoghue

How does the Judge assignment system in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida work? Is that even unlawful? There are 17 Judges in the Southern District and it beggars belief that Judge Cannon gets all the sensitive Trump-related cases. According to Aileen Cannon, there's a “clerk’s random case assignment system”. There's a similar system attested on the Middle District of Florida's website here: https://www.flmd.uscourts.gov/faqs/how-are-judges-assigned-case-0. However, these are very, very general descriptions of a system. Could there a clerk who can hit the randomized button, or re-run assignments until they get the judge they want? Could this program be hacked to return a certain Judge? Is there one company that writes this software for many states, or is it decentralized? Or is this more of a Judge-shopping thing, where Trump waits to file Trump v. United States (2022) until Judge Cannon is one of a small set of Judges with an open schedule? Or is it something else entirely.