The first Trump presidential administration appealed 34 federal district court rulings to the Supreme Court and secured reversals in 25 of those cases

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During the 116th Congress, the Trump administration adopted an oversight strategy of stonewalling congressional requests and challenging subpoenas in court

The proposed SCOTUS Act would establish a panel of the 13 chief judges of the federal circuit courts or their designees to determine which cases the Supreme Court hears

A circuit split among the federal circuit courts of appeals is a primary criterion for the United States Supreme Court to grant certiorari

White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller supported a hawkish policy stance toward military and economic conflict with Iran

Representative Jamie Raskin introduced the SCOTUS Act to reform the case selection process for the Supreme Court

In Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the Supreme Court affirmed the separate-but-equal doctrine, legally entrenching Jim Crow segregation

In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, effectively incapacitating Section 5 preclearance enforcement

Representative Jamie Raskin proposed expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices to provide one justice for each of the 13 federal judicial circuits

Stephen Miller was named the White House chief of staff

In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court denied legal citizenship to Black Americans and upheld the institution of chattel slavery

The United States Supreme Court is the only court among the 51 supreme courts in the United States that lacks a binding code of judicial ethics

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court rescheduled an argued Voting Rights Act challenge and reframed the question presented into a constitutional issue for a subsequent term

President Donald Trump proposed that a planned triumphal arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery honor the United States' 250th anniversary and function as a military complex equipped with snipers and drones

In February 2016, following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked hearings and votes for President Barack Obama's nominee Merrick Garland

Nine members of the Kennedy family joined a lawsuit to block President Donald Trump's planned triumphal arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery

In Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court established criminal immunity for a former president for official core constitutional acts committed while in office

Lawsuits filed by veterans, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. allege the Trump administration lacks required congressional approval to construct a planned triumphal arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery

During the 116th Congress, House committees investigated the personal conduct of individuals within the Trump administration and President Donald Trump

The Kennedy family filed court documents arguing President Donald Trump's planned triumphal arch would obstruct the sightline from President John F. Kennedy's eternal flame gravesite

A federal district judge temporarily blocked construction of President Donald Trump's proposed triumphal arch