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."
The Democratic gamble was known to everyone in Washington: time and again since 1955 the Democrats had rebuffed Dwight Eisenhower's pleas to create more federal judgeships and thus ease the burden on the U.S.'s 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...
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