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Roosevelt, needing Southern Democratic support to maintain any practical hopes of passing the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill, sought their support by shunning civil rights efforts,<ref>"Farewell to the Party of Lincoln," pp. 244–45.</ref> as he did previously in effectively opposing the [[Costigan–Wagner Act]], an earlier anti-lynching bill, in 1935.
Roosevelt, needing Southern Democratic support to maintain any practical hopes of passing the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill, sought their support by shunning civil rights efforts,<ref>"Farewell to the Party of Lincoln," pp. 244–45.</ref> as he did previously in effectively opposing the [[Costigan–Wagner Act]], an earlier anti-lynching bill, in 1935.
===Leftist white supremacist Theodore Bilbo supports the court-packing plan===
The first U.S. senator in 1937 to openly support Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court was [[Theodore Bilbo]] of [[Mississippi]],<ref>Mickey, Robert (2015). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Paths_Out_of_Dixie/yqDwG2MBoNwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=theodore+bilbo+court+packing&pg=PA153&printsec=frontcover Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944–1972], p. 153. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref> considered one of the most racist federal politicians in the nation's history.
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