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Palmer's supporters in Congress responded with an attempt to impeach Louis Post or, failing that, to censure him.

The drive against Post began to lose energy when Attorney General Palmer ’ s forecast of an attempted radical uprising on May Day 1920 failed to occur.

Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7-8, Post proved " a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue " and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: " I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely.