If the brokerâs equity requirement is 25 percent, the customer must maintain $15,000 in equity in the account. If the customer has an outstanding margin loan against the securities of $50,000, his equity will be $10,000 ($60,000 - $50,000 = $10,000).
James D. St. Clair argued in his Supreme Court brief on President Nixon's behalf that this language demonstrated the Framers' intent that any prosecution would follow impeachment and removal from office and that, consequently, a President could not be prosecuted while in office.
In Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), Justice Joseph Story held that the federal government could not force states to implement or carry out the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. He said that it was a federal law, and the federal government ultimately had to enforce it.