This Day in Republican History 09/17/05
September 17, 1971
Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he had defended Klansmen for racial murders
FDR appointed Black to the Supreme Court as part of his plan to stack the court with justices who would turn a blind eye to the Constitution and pass his socialist New Deal agenda. Black's prior association with the KKK was kept secret until after his confirmation.
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