Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, a constitutional obsessive, said it would “better be titled ‘A Bill to Repeal Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution.’” D.C.’s police chief said he didn’t want or need it. That wasn’t important to the White House, for whom it was a no-lose proposition: they didn’t expect it to pass, but got points for proposing “bold” action all the same.
