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...questions of who should pick federal judges and how merit should be made the standard have never been as hotly debated or as important as now. Last October Congress passed the Omnibus Judgeship Act, creating 152 new federal judgeships, the largest one-shot increase ever. Given normal turnover on the bench, half of the nation's 643 federal appeals and district judges will owe their jobs to Carter by the end of his term in 1980. Says Leonard Janofsky, American Bar Association president-elect: "No modern American President has had such an opportunity to mold the shape and character...
...federal appeals judges should be nominated by merit commissions. Eastland also promised that his committee would go along with the President's choices. But he balked when it came to the more numerous federal district judges. Instead of a Mississippi commission coming up with five names for a judgeship and the President choosing one, Eastland reportedly told Attorney General Griffin Bell: "I'll hand you a slip of paper with one name on it, and that'll be the judge...
...heady victory to be elected the first black mayor of New Orleans, but Ernest ("Dutch") Morial's first task was to find a job. He had left his state judgeship to run for city hall, and there was no paycheck in sight until his inauguration in May. "This is no joke," grumbled the politician after the election. "I'm looking through the classified ads." Morial is looking no more. Since his plight got some national press, the mayor-to-be has landed a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics, a once-a-week teaching assignment...
Last week Webster, 53, was thinking about it. Seven weeks after Johnson withdrew his candidacy for health reasons, Webster was asked by President Carter to become the third director in the FBI's 43 year history, and he accepted. Explaining why he would give up his judgeship for the bureau's top post, he said: "I'm an old Navyman. I heard the bosun's pipe and the words 'Now hear this...
...list, but a poll of the Utah State Bar Commission had ranked Salt Lake City Attorney David Watkiss al the top. Utah's two Republican Senators even congratulated Watkiss. Then Representative McKay approached O'Neill, who approached Carter. This week McKay's nomination for the judgeship was to be confirmed by the Senate. Said a rueful While House adviser: "If politics is going to rule in the end, we're probably making more enemies than if we let it rule from the start...