This guy is beyond lazy.
This guy is beyond lazy. He doesn't read papers, doesn't even have clerks read papers, and then when you get called up for oral argument, he has you sitting there while he's paging through your papers for the very first time to try to get what the issue is, and then he starts asking you stupid, uninformed questions and then gets impatient when the explanation has any nuance to it and can't be summarized in two words. He forms very quick, uninformed impressions, is super-impatient and irritable and makes kneejerk decisions. My client has largely benefited from his impulses thus far, but it all could just as easily go the other way, and the main thing is that this just isn't how a judge is supposed to behave.