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Hardly had the nomination been announced when it became evident that the president's strategy could not be achieved without a struggle. Some of the senators viewed the appointment as a rebuke for their opposition to the president's proposal for judiciary reorganization; others saw it for what it was, an attempt to ensure the success of future New Deal legislation and a blatant attempt to influence the Court's interpretation of the law. Outside the Congress Black was assailed, on the one hand, for his liberal views, his sympathy for labor, and his support of what many considered the more-intrusive and regulatory facets of the New Deal program. On the opposite end of the political spectrum, questions were raised respecting his southern heritage, his opposition to the proposed antilynching law, his past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, and his lack of judicial experience. In August 1937, after six hours...
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