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There are currently 9 Supreme Court Justices, so for there to be a majority ruling, 5 would have to rule a certain way.
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For a majority ruling on the Supreme Court, a minimum of five out of the nine justices must agree. This is because a majority decision requires more than half of the justices to support a particular outcome or opinion. It is necessary to have a majority in order to establish a binding decision for the Court.
The ruling made by the supreme court is that demonstrations on the private property is illegal.
When an appeal is pending before the US Supreme Court, the lower court ruling is typically put on hold or stayed until the Supreme Court makes a final decision. This means that the lower court's ruling does not have immediate effect and is effectively paused until the Supreme Court resolves the case.
The president cannot use executive privilege in order to withhold evidence from a criminal trial.
The president cannot use executive privilege in order to withhold evidence from a criminal trial.
If the US Supreme Court agrees with the lower court ruling, the decision is "affirmed," and becomes legally final (res judicata).
No the Congress can not nullify a ruling of the Supreme Court. The Congress would have to rewrite the law which the Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional. Then the new law could overrule the Supreme Court IF the new law was declared constitutional if/when appealed.
Opinion of the court.
Nixon v. United States is not related to the case involving former President Richard Nixon.The Nixon v. US, (1993) ruling listed in United States Reports (the official volumes containing US Supreme Court opinions) is Nixon v. United States, 506 US 224 (1993). This case is not related to former President Nixon, but to an impeached Mississippi US District Court judge, Walter Nixon, who appealed the Senate's impeachment ruling to the US Supreme Court.In that case, the Court determined that impeachment proceedings are non-justiciable, and are political matters, or the province of Congress. The 1993 Nixon case set a formal precedent preventing impeached officials from appealing their impeachment in court.William Rehnquist wrote the opinion of a unanimous Court. Justices Stevens, White and Souter wrote concurring opinions.
He ignored the Court's ruling (Apex)