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Alongside Norris, staunch progressive Republican [[William E. Borah]] of [[Idaho]] also opposed the Costigan–Wagner Act. According to author Joseph M. Hernon:<ref>Hernon, Joseph M. (1997). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Profiles_in_Character/tXhW2Zoj5NEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+borah+costigan-wagner&pg=PA154&printsec=frontcover ''Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990''], p. 154. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 2, 2022.</ref>
 
Alongside Norris, staunch progressive Republican [[William E. Borah]] of [[Idaho]] also opposed the Costigan–Wagner Act. According to author Joseph M. Hernon:<ref>Hernon, Joseph M. (1997). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Profiles_in_Character/tXhW2Zoj5NEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+borah+costigan-wagner&pg=PA154&printsec=frontcover ''Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990''], p. 154. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 2, 2022.</ref>
{{cquote|Toward the issue of civil rights for African Americans, both Borah and Norris turned a morally blind eye. They joined most of white American in benign neglect, if not active discrimination against "Negroes." And Borah's opposition to the Costigan–Wagner Antilynching Bill succeeded in preventing cloture of a southern filibuster in 1935.}}
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{{quotebox|Toward the issue of civil rights for African Americans, both Borah and Norris turned a morally blind eye. They joined most of white American in benign neglect, if not active discrimination against "Negroes." And Borah's opposition to the Costigan–Wagner Antilynching Bill succeeded in preventing cloture of a southern filibuster in 1935.}}
    
===Huey Long's announced opposition===
 
===Huey Long's announced opposition===
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