On Monday, speaking to a local television station in Florida, Rubio said, of Trump's call to take the judge off the case, "I think it's wrong.
In a sign of the president's waning authority over the security services, the police reportedly responded to Mr Gilani's call to lift the judges' house arrest almost immediately after the new prime minister's speech in parliament.
"I made some calls to the other judges," Mr. Banks said, adding that Judge Ballard is from the Northwest Side and is an old friend.
The judge is very upset when she disrobes, and even more upset when they are interrupted by two citizens calling to ask the judge to accept a nomination for political office.
The facilitator was skeptical, and chose to call back to the judges, who could confirm that they had not given such a go-ahead.
Old claims that she later made a threatening call to a judge in the case have also been circulating. .
She said she had tried to call the judge in charge of the case, but no one answered the telephone.
"I don't know if it's too harsh to call the judge ignorant," she said, "but she certainly has a fundamental misunderstanding of how discrimination plays out for working mothers".
Lawyers for Nicholas A. Spano, the New York State Senate incumbent whose race in Westchester County is still too close to call, asked the judge overseeing the election to recuse himself yesterday.
Of course, in the immediate wake of the revelation that Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked, people felt differently, and the Prime Minister, under pressure for his links to News International, was obliged to call in the judge.
