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Personal Calls. Another basis for challenge is the inconsistent wording of the various petitions. Some call for the removal of state legislatures from the jurisdiction of federal courts. Others ask for a specific amendment ruling out constitutional restrictions on legislative apportionment. Democratic Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who favors the Dirksen amendment, has proposed a bill to limit a constitutional convention to predetermined issues. The measure has received minimal attention...
Three Senators offered amendments to NPT, and all were defeated. North Carolina's Sam Ervin wanted to make it clear that the U.S. did not have to defend nonnuclear states against aggression, but other Senators in favor of the treaty argued that the U.S. is already in effect so bound by the U.N. Charter. Texas Republican John Tower proposed to spell out the right of the U.S. to supply nuclear weapons to NATO allies; since the weapons would remain in U.S. control, there would be no violation...
...Capitol Hill, North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin denounced the experiment as "nitpicking of the nittiest kind." Nathan Walkomir, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, called the plan "a classic example of bureaucratic stupidity and arrogance." One Justice Department lawyer found the study "an insult to our integrity." Said he: "The long-term effect will be to drive us right out of the department...
...West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd applauded the idea of pretrial jailing of accused criminals thought likely to break the law while out on bail. "Unless we have a safe society," said Byrd, "we are not going to have a free society." But North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin Jr., a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee and usually no supporter of libertarian causes, was incensed. Preventive detention, he said, is "inconsistent with a free society...
...reason for the problem is crowded court calendars. In the District of Columbia, for example, it takes at least ten months to bring a man to trial. And the longer the accused is free, the stronger the chance that he will be arrested again. Senator Ervin has argued that if the time between arrest and trial lasted only from six to eight weeks, there would be no clamor for preventive detention. Even those who favor the idea believe a man should be detained for only a limited time-which would mean that the courts would have to provide quicker trials...