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

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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

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

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

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

Senate Republicans held a closed-door election to choose their party leaders

Scott Colom ran against incumbent United States Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi

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

Senator-elect Annie Andrews expressed a desire during her campaign for change in Democratic Senate leadership

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

During nearly every month of the 117th Congress, Senate committees held a greater share of hearings on nominations than on executive branch oversight

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

Under United States Senate rules, nominations require a simple majority to invoke cloture rather than the 60 votes required for most legislation

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

Gifts accepted by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas included a recreational vehicle and private school tuition for a nephew