I’ll soon need to back on some of my optional subscriptions, but the yearly donation to EFF is staying for sure

My understanding is that for efficiency it’s typical for cases to continue to trial under the judge who presided over the preliminary hearings. That said, I expect the government will petition for her recusal or a change of judge based on how badly she got smacked down by the appeals court.

That’s a good aspirational summary of how downvoting should be used, but in practice it’s used as “I don’t like this,” not “this is against the core of what the site stands for,” or “this is factually incorrect.”