1. The highest court in the United States that helps judge laws based upon constitutionality, and also along party and ideological lines;
2. Justices are appointed by presidents for life, unless the president is Barack Obama and the appointed justice is named Merrick Garland, whose appointment was blocked for almost a year by Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans, and setting a precedent that was immediately broken when McConnell rushed through his own appointment, less than eight weeks before the 2020 election.
3. August body that now contains three appointments by Donald Trump, including Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and a sexual assaulter;
4. Court, despite having three Trump appointees on it, still did not uphold Trump’s 2020 election challenges.
5. The court size that falls between “Large Court” and “Grande Supreme Court.”
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