Just going be the article qoute. Soppusedly it was the Fed Judge who said that.
Judges pop off stupidly on a regular basis. If a judge really wants to get a railroad job done without getting it by a jury, they pretty much have to use a court order, and then contempt, and failure to be very clever in that can cost 'em their bench.
Publicity is their worst nightmare, Caesar's wife, ya know.