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{{cquote|This apparent disinterestedness on the part of the White House in legislation of this type always puzzled me, and although I attempted on several occasions to procure an answer to the query, I was unsuccessful. I finally gave up the attempt, convinced that perhaps after all, President Roosevelt was taking first things first and felt that the more demanding questions were more vital to the nation at that particular time than any equal rights legislation.|||Rep. Joseph A. Gavagan (D–NY)}}

{{cquote|This apparent disinterestedness on the part of the White House in legislation of this type always puzzled me, and although I attempted on several occasions to procure an answer to the query, I was unsuccessful. I finally gave up the attempt, convinced that perhaps after all, President Roosevelt was taking first things first and felt that the more demanding questions were more vital to the nation at that particular time than any equal rights legislation.|||Rep. Joseph A. Gavagan (D–NY)}}

Roosevelt, in need of 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 to pass programs of the First and Second New Deal previously in effectively opposing the [[Costigan–Wagner Act]], an earlier anti-lynching bill, during 1935.

Roosevelt, in need of 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 to pass programs of the First and Second New Deal previously in effectively opposing the [[Costigan–Wagner Act]], an earlier anti-lynching bill, during 1935. However, his hopes of passing the bill were destroyed when his chief senatorial ally, [[Joseph T. Robinson]] of [[Arkansas]], suddenly died on July 14, 1937, ultimately resulting in defections by Southern Democrats who no longer had a pro–New Deal Majority Leader to please.<ref>Egerton, John (1994). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Speak_Now_Against_The_Day/QQ45AAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=theodore+bilbo+court+packing&pg=PT177&printsec=frontcover Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>

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

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