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...Well, anyone who declares war on the McCormacks ought to know that a McCormack is always ready to join the issue-and the war is on until peace terms have been offered by the one who declared the war." No sooner had McCormack sat down than Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, arose to denounce the same judge: "He thinks he is the be-all and end-all of wisdom. He is a sort of judicial panjandrum and, therefore, never hesitates to act as judge, prosecutor and jury." Then, where McCormack had not, Manny Celler named...
Brooklyn's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler put it bluntly. "The Democratic leadership gambled and won," said Celler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. "A new Administration will make the appointments...
...courts. Last year, the Democrats even turned back Ike's offer to split his appointments 50-50 between both parties if Congress would only approve 40 new judgeships. Last week, with a Democratic President in the White House, the Democrats created not 40 but 70 new judgeships. Manny Celler explained why: "We did not like putting Democratic eggs under a Republican hen to hatch. I want the greater number of these judgeships to go as prizes to honest and good and faithful Democrats...
Last week Democrats moved to take the victor's share of the spoils. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler introduced a bill to create not 40 but 63 new federal judgeships. There was no indication from anywhere inside the Democratic Party that there would be any such nonsense as filling half the new posts with Republicans...
...appointive posts are more sensitive than those in the federal judiciary. That sensitivity was one of the factors in the appointment of Bobby Kennedy as U.S. Attorney General. As a tough political negotiator beholden to no Democratic faction, he might be able to placate both House Judiciary Committee Chairman Celler, an all-out liberal, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland, an archsegregationist from Mississippi, in the filling of the new federal judgeships...