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===Leftist white supremacist Theodore Bilbo supports the court-packing plan===

===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. Bilbo, a populist influenced by the [[Progressive Movement]] who launched tirades against anti-capitalist tirades, declared himself "one hundred percent for Roosevelt and the New Deal," and praised in turn by FDR as "a real friend of liberal government."<ref>Sjursen, Daniel A. (June 2021). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_True_History_of_the_United_States/KIf7DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bilbo+one+hundred+percent+for+roosevelt&pg=PA349&printsec=frontcover A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism], p. 349. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref> Bilbo's racism throughout the 1930s up until the [[World War II]] years left numerous Democratic colleagues unbothered, being invited to provide the keynote address for the Young Democrats of New York at one point.<ref>Morgan, Chester M. (1985). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Redneck_Liberal/f8_t3_Ss0_MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bilbo+one+hundred+percent+for+roosevelt&pg=PA230&printsec=frontcover Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal], p. 230. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>

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. Bilbo, a populist influenced by the [[Progressive Movement]] who launched tirades against anti-capitalist tirades, declared himself "one hundred percent for Roosevelt and the New Deal," and praised in turn by FDR as "a real friend of liberal government."<ref>Sjursen, Daniel A. (June 2021). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_True_History_of_the_United_States/KIf7DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bilbo+one+hundred+percent+for+roosevelt&pg=PA349&printsec=frontcover A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism], p. 349. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref> '''Bilbo's racism throughout the 1930s up until the [[World War II]] years left numerous Democratic colleagues entirely unbothered, invited at one occasion by the Young Democrats of New York to deliver its keynote address.'''<ref>Morgan, Chester M. (1985). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Redneck_Liberal/f8_t3_Ss0_MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bilbo+one+hundred+percent+for+roosevelt&pg=PA230&printsec=frontcover Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal], p. 230. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>

On the court-packing proposal, Bilbo told Mississippi voters:<ref>Kalman, Laura (2022). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/FDR_s_Gambit/gp6FEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bilbo+one+hundred+percent+for+roosevelt&pg=PA112&printsec=frontcover FDR's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>

On the court-packing proposal, Bilbo told Mississippi voters:<ref>Kalman, Laura (2022). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/FDR_s_Gambit/gp6FEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bilbo+one+hundred+percent+for+roosevelt&pg=PA112&printsec=frontcover FDR's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>