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[[File:Allen Joseph Ellender.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Southern Democratic Sen. [[Allen Ellender]] defended Bilbo during the Senate investigation.]]

[[File:Allen Joseph Ellender.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Southern Democratic Sen. [[Allen Ellender]] defended Bilbo during the Senate investigation.]]

After being reelected due to a violent campaign marked with rampant suppression and fraud, left-wing Idaho senator Glen H. Taylor requested an investigation of Bilbo's conduct by the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee.<ref name=fleegler,pp.21-22>"Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, pp. 21–22.</ref> The anti-Bilbo movement gained traction particularly after the Mississippi senator told ''[[Meet the Press]]'' in an interview where he admitted of [[Ku Klux Klan]] membership:<ref name=fleegler,pp.21-22/>

After being reelected due to a violent campaign marked with rampant suppression and fraud, left-wing Idaho senator Glen H. Taylor requested an investigation of Bilbo's conduct by the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee.<ref name=fleegler,pp.21-22>"Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism," pp. 21–22.</ref> The anti-Bilbo movement gained traction particularly after the Mississippi senator told ''[[Meet the Press]]'' in an interview where he admitted of [[Ku Klux Klan]] membership:<ref name=fleegler,pp.21-22/>

{{cquote|No man can leave the Klan. He takes an oath not to do that. Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux.|||Bilbo, August 9, 1946}}

{{cquote|No man can leave the Klan. He takes an oath not to do that. Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux.|||Bilbo, August 9, 1946}}