Edited sentence: In 1937, Levitt filed a petition in the Supreme Court of the United States, seeking to block the seating of new appointee, Senator Hugo Black.In the decision, ''Ex parte Levitt, the Court found that Levitt's standing, as a citizen and member of the Supreme Court Bar, was not sufficient to allow him to challenge the seating of Black.Levitt argued that as Black's predecessor on the Court, Justice Willis Van Devanter had only retired, and not resigned (a new law had permitted retirement), there was no vacancy, and as that the retirement law had increased the emoluments of the office, Black was ineligible under the Incompatibility Clause of the Consititution.When he heard of the decision, Levitt quoted from the Book of Job:  "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will maintain my own ways before Him