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Sam Ervin

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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.


— Sam Ervin


#20th-century #polygraph #tests #witchcraft

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?


— Sam Ervin


#american #american revolution #belong #divine #eat

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!


— Sam Ervin


#court #damn #damn thing #got #hasn

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.


— Sam Ervin


#executive #extend #nothing #out #past






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After Ervin's retirement no one held his former Senate seat for more than one term until 2010 when Richard Burr first elected in 2004 won re-election. He was 88 years old. (In his autobiography "Preserving the Constitution" Ervin said he later changed his mind on the Brown decision stating that the decision to the extent it eliminated mandatory segregation was correct but that forced integration required under later decisions was improper.

(September 27 1896 – April 23 1985) was an American politician. He is remembered for his work in the investigation committees that brought down Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and especially his investigation in 1972 and 1973 of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation in 1974 of President Richard Nixon.

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