What we want is a decision.
Rulings hold only insofar as people cooperate with them.
As the language is clear, a contrary ruling would result in, shall we say, a whole lotta non-cooperation. Molon Labe.
The Founding Fathers didn’t say “oh, well, we don’t like it but King George’s minions have told us what to do, sigh...”.
A bad decision might cost millions of lives.