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Good, I hope this draws the attention of voters in the district. My employer (very large) was sued twice in this court. Both times by trolls. The lawyers basic

Good, I hope this draws the attention of voters in the district. My employer (very large) was sued twice in this court. Both times by trolls. The lawyers basically described this judge as running a ‘cottage industry’ and were unwilling to even set foot in that courtroom. The patents the lawsuits were based on were insane. One of them was on any image compression for medical images which was somehow granted in 2005 (that’s another problem). There was reams of prior art but of course we settled. I was very low on the totem pole of the company but it still pissed me off to no end.

dragonwriter 8y ago
> Good, I hope this draws the attention of voters in the district. It's not an electoral district, but a judicial one, all of whose officials are Presidential appointees, not locally elected. There's a tradition (weaker in the last few decades, especially when the White House is in opposite hands from the Senate seats in the state) of consultation with the Senators of the state containing the district when appointing judges, but in large states (where judicial districts aren't the whole state, as is the case here since it's the Eastern District of Texas and not the [non-existent] plain unmodified District of Texas) that still doesn't provide a special role for “voters of the district” distinct from those of the whole containing state.