Alabama’s segregation laws were unconstitutional.
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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.
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The Supreme Court's ruling is final and cannot be appealed. The United States Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices.
The US Supreme Court declared segregation on intrastate buses unconstitutional in Browder v. Gayle, 352 US 903 (1956). This ruling ended the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott lead by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.