Frank Lautenberg: “Indeed, that is true. I just got a letter from a district court judge in New Jersey, considered one of the most…”

“Indeed, that is true. I just got a letter from a district court judge in New Jersey, considered one of the most brilliant and able district court judges, who was recommended for the circuit court of appeals in our district and decided after a long wait that he was not going to get a chance to be heard for a circuit court job. He informs me in his letter that he is going back to the law firm after 10 years on the Federal bench--a distinguished jurist, a great loss. He could not get a hearing, so he decided to withdraw rather than sit there and be dangled like a kite in the wind.”