How do the president and congress influence the supreme courts?

Presidents will try to appoint to the courts people who agree with their political views.

Explanation:

on november 6 and 7, 1917 (or october 24 and 25 on the julian calendar, which is why the event is often referred to as the october revolution), leftist revolutionaries led by bolshevik party leader vladimir lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the duma's provisional government.