In a 4-4 decision, the verdict falls back to the last ruling determined at the next lower court.
All the cases already heard, even if a new justice gets put in cannot vote as he/she/it was not present when the case was presented before the court. So everything heard and pending in in danger of reverting to the lower court decisions.
USCG SimTech wrote: ...All the cases already heard, even if a new justice gets put in cannot vote as he/she/it was not present when the case was presented before the court. So everything heard and pending in in danger of reverting to the lower court decisions.
Not exactly... See my post #25 above.