Tipsheet Did The White House Pressure the Judge? Carol Platt Liebau | June 01, 2009 12:39 PM Manny Lopez, a blogger for the Detroit News, raises the question of whether The White House pressured the Chrylser bankruptcy judge to rule in order to have a "quick and speedy" bankruptcy for the car company.There is so much we might be learning if the national media weren't so busy courting Obama and laughing at Robert Gibbs' jokes.