Talk:Dems Reintroduce Bill to Pack Supreme Court

Oh, by the way, did you know that court packing has white supremacist origins? Leftist history 102

A quick search takes me to this:

“	In 1937 Theodore Bilbo backed Roosevelt's Court-packing plan—the first U.S. senator to do so—and a Mississippi Bar Association voiced its approval. Bilbo also made headlines by calling for FDR to serve a third term. Unlike other Southerners, Bilbo did not abandon New Deal legislation even when northern Democrats introduced antilynching and anti–poll tax legislation.	”
—"Paths Out of Dixie," p. 153

Of course, Bilbo is known for... something else. Here's his (in)famous "floodgates" speech when filibustering the Anti-Lynching Bill of 1938:

“	If you succeed in the passage of this bill, you will open the floodgates of hell in the South. Raping, mobbing, lynching, race riots, and crime will be increased a thousandfold; upon your garments and the garments of those who are responsible for the passage of the measure will be the blood of the raped and outraged daughters of Dixie. as well as the blood of the perpetrators of these crimes that the red-blooded Anglo-Saxon white Southern men will not tolerate.	”
—Bilbo, January 1938

So yes, a leading supporter of Roosevelt's Judicial Procedures Reform Bill in 1937—which is the precedent for all modern-day court-packing proposals— was one of America's most virulent, nasty, bigoted white supremacist senators in history. Oh, but that's not all, not close—in 1937, the anti-lynching bill got utterly stalled in the Senate until January 1938 (when it quickly became filibustered by Bilbo, Ellender, & co.) because the chamber was too busy debating over the court-packing proposal. In summary, the culmination of FDR's New Deal statism—the harebrained effort to pack the court because it ruled as the president didn't like—was a peak antithesis to civil rights; his shunning of anti-lynching legislation in 1937 was even colder than his effective refusal to support the similar Costigan–Wagner Act previously in 1934–35. Roosevelt needed support from the Southern bloc to have any hopes of passing the court packing bill (and with hardline progressive Southern Democratic leader Joseph T. Robinson suddenly dying in mid-July 1937, many Southern senators no longer felt compelled to stay true to their terms with Robinson and consistently support FDR), and his priorities aligned with New Dealism over anti-lynching legislation; the glorious liberal godfather himself disappointed the very pro–New Deal, Northern Democratic House sponsor of the 1937–38 anti-lynching bill, Joseph A. Gavagan, who "later recalled that he had received 'very little support from the White House' in any of his efforts in behalf of the antilynching bill." (see p. 243 here)

The leftists won't like it if more people understood this historical truth that destroys any reasonable basis for them to employ "systemic racist" accusations against conservatives on historical grounds, so I, for one, will point it out. —LT ^{(Matthew 26:52)} Sunday, 08:20, June 4, 2023 (EDT)

You make a very interesting and important point about the Dem racist origin of court packing!--Andy Schlafly (talk) 13:57, June 4, 2023 (EDT)