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Black opposed [[anti-lynching legislation]].<ref>[https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2018/09/30/the-controversy-of-justice-hugo-black/ The Controversy of Justice Hugo Black]. ''fascinatingpolitics.com''. Retrieved May 27, 2021.</ref> He filibustered them<ref>Morgan, Thad (October 10, 2018). [https://www.history.com/news/kkk-supreme-court-hugo-black-fdr How an Ex-KKK Member Made His Way Onto the U.S. Supreme Court]. ''history.com''. Retrieved May 27, 2021.</ref> and voted twice in 1937 to kill the [[Royal Copeland|Copeland]] [[rider]] amendments.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/75-1/s43 TO TABLE AN AMENDMENT TO S. 69, THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT. THE AMEND. OFFERED BY SENATOR COPELAND WHICH WOULD HAVE ADDED HOUSE BILL 1507, THE ANTILYNCHING BILL, TO S. 69, A BILL LIMITING THE SIZE OF TRAINS IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved May 27, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/75-1/s58 TO TABLE AN AMENDMENT TO S. 2475. OFFERED BY SENATOR COPELAND WHICH WOULD HAVE ADDED THE ANTILYNCHING BILL AS PERFECTED BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY TO THE PENDING LEGISLATION.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved May 27, 2021.</ref>
Black opposed [[anti-lynching legislation]].<ref>[https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2018/09/30/the-controversy-of-justice-hugo-black/ The Controversy of Justice Hugo Black]. ''fascinatingpolitics.com''. Retrieved May 27, 2021.</ref> He filibustered them<ref>Morgan, Thad (October 10, 2018). [https://www.history.com/news/kkk-supreme-court-hugo-black-fdr How an Ex-KKK Member Made His Way Onto the U.S. Supreme Court]. ''history.com''. Retrieved May 27, 2021.</ref> and voted twice in 1937 to kill the [[Royal Copeland|Copeland]] [[rider]] amendments.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/75-1/s43 TO TABLE AN AMENDMENT TO S. 69, THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT. THE AMEND. OFFERED BY SENATOR COPELAND WHICH WOULD HAVE ADDED HOUSE BILL 1507, THE ANTILYNCHING BILL, TO S. 69, A BILL LIMITING THE SIZE OF TRAINS IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved May 27, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/75-1/s58 TO TABLE AN AMENDMENT TO S. 2475. OFFERED BY SENATOR COPELAND WHICH WOULD HAVE ADDED THE ANTILYNCHING BILL AS PERFECTED BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY TO THE PENDING LEGISLATION.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved May 27, 2021.</ref>
In 1935, Black was part of the Southern Democratic filibuster against the [[Costigan–Wagner Act]] (also known as the [[Anti-Lynching Bill of 1935]]). However, unlike colleagues who employed racial (in the case of demagogues such as "Cotton Ed" Smith) or constitutional (including [[Walter F. George]]) arguments, Black bizarrely attacked the Act as an anti-labor conspiracy which would undermine unions.<ref>Greenbaum, Fred (1967). [https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-human-relations_third-quarter-1967_15_3 "The Anti-Lynching Bill of 1935: The Irony of "Equal Justice—Under Law"]," p. 79–82. Internet Archive. Retrieved December 3, 2022.</ref>
==Unethical conduct==
==Unethical conduct==
On June 10, 1946, esteemed Supreme Court Justice [[Robert Jackson]] publicly accused Black of unethical conduct for having conflicts of interests in which Black cast deciding votes, and for pressuring the Court to issue a premature decision for benefit of the [[labor union]] side.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/3109625</ref>
On June 10, 1946, esteemed Supreme Court Justice [[Robert Jackson]] publicly accused Black of unethical conduct for having conflicts of interests in which Black cast deciding votes, and for pressuring the Court to issue a premature decision for benefit of the [[labor union]] side.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/3109625</ref>