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...acts, denied that a general investigation of the reading habits of Americans was part of Treasury policy; the agents were purportedly conducting a specific investigation. This is another example of the "plausible denials" by which, according to Pyle, the Army placated irate senators and congressmen such as Sen. Samuel Ervin and Rep. Cornelius Gallagher concerning its CONUS operation. Once such investigatory operations are underway it is not likely that they will be limited unless outside pressure is exerted...
...necessity of Congressional investigation is evident. The Army, or the Justice Department, or Treasury, for that matter, will evade the issue unless threatened by hearings. Pyle has already documented how the Army, by means of plausible denials and half-assurances, succeeded in placating Sen. Ervin and Rep. Gallagher when they threatened to hold hearings earlier in the year...
Several Senators weighed in with variations aimed at making Bayh's proposal more palatable. North Carolina's Sam Ervin was willing to drop electors but not electoral votes. The Ervin plan would eliminate the danger inherent in human electors: that their votes can be bartered in a three-way race in which no candidate wins a majority...
...Senate fight against the bill was led by North Carolina's conservative Democrat Sam Ervin, whose image as the strictest constructions! of them all has moved him to combat such diverse events as civil rights legislation and the proliferation of computerized data banks. Ervin's argument that the bill was unconstitutional persuaded only two of the Southern colleagues who had followed his legal lead on so many other bills. And he was opposed by a collection of liberal Northern Senators who might ordinarily be expected to share his constitutional conviction that the bill must be defeated. Opponents were...
...wholly embrace Fourth and Eighth Amendment rights. Proponents applauded its proposals for such reforms as an overhaul of the District's clogged court system and a public-defender program. The fine distinctions, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield asserted, could be decided later in the courts. Opposition Leader Ervin protested that by then the D.C. bill would be a model for a federal law affecting the entire nation. The American Civil Liberties Union moved quickly to close the time gap. The day after the bill was passed, its National Capital Area chapter promised to challenge the constitutionality...