A losing party in a federal trial court can

appeal to the US Supreme Court.
appeal to a higher federal court.
ask for a retrial in the same court.
ask for a different judge in the same court.

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

the answer is a. laws were enacted in the aftermath of the plot to make it harder to free slaves,increasing sectionalism