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

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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

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

President Ronald Reagan won 49 states in the 1984 United States presidential election

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

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

The population of the city of Pittsburgh peaked in the 1950s alongside the growth of the steel industry

In the 1982 midterm elections, the Republican Party lost 26 seats in the United States House of Representatives

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

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 George W. Bush authorized the troop surge in the Iraq War following Republican losses in the 2006 midterm elections

Under Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker's anti-inflation policies in 1982, the United States unemployment rate reached 10 percent

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

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

Samuel Slater memorized English textile mill designs and brought them to the United States to produce domestic industrial machinery

In Bush v. Gore in 2000, the Supreme Court halted the manual recount of presidential ballots in Florida, effectively deciding the outcome of the presidential election

In October 2020, the United States Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court approximately eight days before the presidential election

The Supreme Court's Trump v. Mazars ruling required congressional committees to demonstrate a valid legislative purpose when issuing subpoenas for personal records