“Maybe this will illustrate my point better, from Black’s Law Dictionary:”
I give you this example. Tell the traffic judge to ‘Fxxx Off’ and see if you get a jury trial.
That’s a bad choice of an example. That would be a criminal charge, criminal contempt of court, and the only reason I would not get a jury trial is because of the Supreme Court decision cited earlier by others on this thread that limits jury trials to criminal charges of six months of more.
Under the Constitution, without the Supreme Court’s judicial fiat altering it, I would be entitled to a jury trial for such a criminal charge.