Subject: Re: Tuesday should be interesting
As a non-lawyer and citizen, it annoys me that the judge is putting off his ruling. I don't see how the election could have any impact on this ruling. Make your ruling and then toss that into the pile of things the parties need to respond to regarding the election.

Generally speaking, if a party requests the opportunity to make a legal argument, due process means listening to that argument before rejecting it.

Courts will require parties to make their arguments in a timely fashion, of course. But if a significant event occurs that neither party has previously had an opportunity to fully brief, it's pretty much basic due process to give a party the chance to argue that it has an impact on the case. In this case, since both parties agreed that the defendant becoming the President-elect was a significant event, it would have probably been a denial of due process not to give the parties a week to brief the issue.