Your supposition about some unrecalled judge is like the end of the whisper line at a party where a rumor is begun at one end of the room and passed along from person to person until, at the end, there is no similarity between what began and what comes out at the last person's report.
Oh well - that's what happened. If you choose to not believe it, that's your problem.
Your the one supporting the Dems on this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403497/posts
Post 17, now get a life.