Word: ervine
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Gone with the Jury. It is on an issue developed by North Carolina's respected Democratic Senator Sam Ervin Jr., onetime judge on his state's Supreme Court, that the Southerners have built their first line of defense. As a member of a Judiciary subcommittee conducting hearings on the civil rights bill, Ervin began asking questions about "the abolition of trial by jury." This, he argued, would result from the civil contempt citations against persons disobeying the courts' injunctions under the new bill. It would, cried Ervin, be a "tragic error to attempt the protection of civil...
...Ervin's trial-by-jury slogan was taken up by Southern newspapers. Indeed, the issue worried many who were otherwise friendly to civil rights. Yet the contempt citation is the judiciary's historic enforcement tool. Jury trials in contempt cases have absolutely no basis in equity or constitutional law and precious little legislative sanction.* As early as 1894, the Supreme Court wrote: "Surely it cannot be supposed that the question of contempt of the authority of a court of the U.S., committed by-a disobedience of its orders, is triable, of right, by a jury." North Carolina Supreme...
...Opening Salvos. Yet Sam Ervin's trial-by-jury issue has already come to dominate the civil rights fight, principally because the slogan can easily outrun the difficult and technical counter-explanation. It has so strengthened the Southern position that civil rights backers may find it impossible to obtain the 64 votes necessary to cut off a Senate filibuster. The Southerners are within shooting distance of a Senate majority for an amendment that would require jury trials in civil rights contempt cases; Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney has announced his support of such an amendment...
...bill in committee until a filibuster would kill it on the Senate floor. Every day's delay helps, since a crowded schedule at the end of the session will not leave time for Southern oratory to exhaust itself. A second and more insidious tactic, the specialty of Senator Ervin of North Carolina, is to raise doubts as to the constitutionality of the measure in the minds of those non-Southern senators who still fear addition to federal power at the expense of states' rights...
...Olympic championship Hungarian water polo team is headed by Captain Laszlo Jeney and Ervin Zador, who suffered the controversial eye injury in the team's 4-0 victory over Russia. Tickets are available for three dollars at the M.I.T. Athletic Association Office, with proceeds going to Hungarian relief...