The 1876 election was one of the most disgraceful episodes in American political history. Violent white mobs used terror tactics to keep black Republicans from voting in several states in the former Confederacy; the Republicans controlled the process of counting votes in some of these states; the electoral count was disputed; and the issue was ultimately resolved by a corrupt deal in which the Republicans essentially agreed to stop using the military to enforce the law against white supremacists in the South. Reconstruction was mostly a dead letter at that point, anyway, but the deal threw dirt on its grave.
If memory serves me correctly, and I’m pretty sure it does, J.D. has argued that the squalid 1876 process should serve as a model for resolving the kinds of bogus disputes that ultimately led to January 6. That’s a really comforting thought, particularly when you consider that J.D. will be presiding over the meeting of Congress during which the electoral votes will be counted.