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...York City's hardy perennial, Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, appeared before the New York Court of Appeals to argue against a lower-court decision affecting his powers. In last autumn's heated mayoralty campaign, the Mayor had whoppingly intimated that in one of its decisions the State Court of Appeals had been "fixed." So curious onlookers last week expected to see the sparks fly. But protean Mr. LaGuardia was on his rare best behavior...
...Court Plan three weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 2), and added as an amendment to a bill previously passed by the House, last week's Court Bill has four main provisions. It enables the Attorney General to intervene in lower-court constitutional cases, provides for speeding such cases to the Supreme Court, permits the temporary reassignment of Federal district judges, limits lower-court injunctive power by requiring decisions from a three-judge tribunal. Senator McCarran had not one amendment to propose but four, each brief and each designed to make the intervention of the Attorney General mandatory. As the four...