Judges Rule

I was just thinking about this new rule on American Idol where a losing contestant can be saved by the judges once during the entire competition through a unanimous decision.

I should say judges always have a bearing on who people vote. So if the judges don't like the performance and the next day (on the result show) the person gets to the bottom, then it would be most unlikely that he/she would be ruled to stay because it's the judges comments that made him/her be at the bottom in the first place.

Only during very rare occasions that the judges can prevent the least voted contestant to go home and that's when every one of them was impressed during the performance night. But as I said, this is unlikely to happen as people vote who the judges like.