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

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Democrat Claire Kempner won a North Carolina state legislative seat in 2026 that had a Republican-plus-12 advantage in 2024

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

The Democratic Party lost its majority in the House of Representatives to the Republican Party in the 2022 midterm elections

Democratic Justice Anita Earls won reelection to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2026 by nearly 20 percentage points

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

Democrat Paul Barringer defeated Republican Brad Knott in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District

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

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

North Carolina Senate Majority Leader Phil Berger was defeated in his state Senate district by Sam Page

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

In the 2026 midterm elections, the Republican Party lost at least 45 seats in the United States House of Representatives

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

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