Each justices hires four law clerks per Term to assist in managing the Court's caseload.
Supreme Court Law Clerk Duties
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Active justices may hire four law clerks each; retired justices are entitled to one law clerk.
US Supreme Court justices hire law clerks to assist with their responsibilities.The Chief Justice and Associate Justices each have four Law Clerks, usually recent law school graduates with law review or moot court experience who have passed the bar. Law clerks assist in summarizing cases of parties' that have petitioned the Court for a Writ of Certiorari, among other things. They also have unpaid interns, who are law school students, or college graduates contemplating law school. As with any other Court, there are legal secretaries, clerks and other behind-the-scenes staff to help with administrative tasks.
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.
Its by the Supreme Court.
It allowed the Supreme Court to overrule an unconstitutional law.