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Bilbo, solid in supporting the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937,<ref>Biles, Roger (February 24, 1994). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_South_and_the_New_Deal/Zp8fBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=theodore+bilbo+court+packing&pg=PA150&printsec=frontcover The South and the New Deal], pp. 150–51. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref> 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>
Bilbo, solid in supporting the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937,<ref>Biles, Roger (February 24, 1994). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_South_and_the_New_Deal/Zp8fBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=theodore+bilbo+court+packing&pg=PA150&printsec=frontcover The South and the New Deal], pp. 150–51. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref> 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>
{{cquote|You can put me down a thousand percent for President Roosevelt's court proposal.|||Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo (D–MS), cir. 1937}}
{{cquote|You can put me down a thousand percent for President Roosevelt's court proposal.|||Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo (D–MS), cir. 1937}}
===KKK senator Hugo Black supports the court reorganization proposal===
In addition to Bilbo, another Southern Democrat who ardently supported President Roosevelt's New Deal and particularly the court-packing plan was [[Hugo Black]] of [[Alabama]], a former member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Although on racial issues "he was no Theodore Bilbo or Tom Heflin," Black's racism persisted into the 1930s, calling the Scottsboro boys "these Negro rapers."<ref>Wiecek, William M. (1971). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the/eaAivaq6zVAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=theodore+bilbo+court+packing&pg=PA76&printsec=frontcover The History of the Supreme Court of the United States], p. 76. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>
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