Carl Levin actually said...

"Can you do something about cheating? Is that judicial independence?"

"So you are saying he did not persist with the abuse of time?"

"I find your invocation of judicial independence to be something which, frankly, you ought to be ashamed of as a lawyer."

"Judge, the report that we released today describes a number of instances in which Judge Daugherty's improper practice of assigning Conn cases to himself and taking Conn cases from other judges and ass..."