All the real work is being done by clerks and staff attorneys. The judges just show up to read the briefs and sign the orders. I doubt the judges themselves are spending much more than 15 minutes on each warrant. The court staff are likely spending 4-12 man-hours on each warrant, mostly filling in the blanks on forms and boilerplate.
And their jobs are not really to weigh the merits, but to cover the judge's ass, just in case something really egregious comes back that points at their bench.
As they preside over a secret court that determines whether the low standard of reasonable suspicion has been passed, the judges barely need to spend any time at all actually judging anything. The worst that can happen is that the trial judge might exclude the evidence collected on their warrant, and that's about as damaging to their careers as an ingrown hair.
I'm not sure you could find a cushier job if you designed one from scratch.
And their jobs are not really to weigh the merits, but to cover the judge's ass, just in case something really egregious comes back that points at their bench.
As they preside over a secret court that determines whether the low standard of reasonable suspicion has been passed, the judges barely need to spend any time at all actually judging anything. The worst that can happen is that the trial judge might exclude the evidence collected on their warrant, and that's about as damaging to their careers as an ingrown hair.
I'm not sure you could find a cushier job if you designed one from scratch.