It didn’t make the biggest headlines, but the most important thing that happened today was the U.S. Supreme Court’s granting of certiorari in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31. I wrote about the Janus case here:
The case raises issues substantially identical to those in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.
In Friedrichs, decided last year, the Court split 4-4 following the death of Justice Scalia, and therefore left standing a 9th Circuit decision adverse to the plaintiff, a California school teacher. In Janus, like Friedrichs, plaintiffs are asking the Court to overturn the ruling in Abood v. Detroit Board of Educationand bar public employees from being forced into unions, or from being required to support unions via the fiction of “fair share” contributions. It is widely believed that Rebecca Friedrichs would have won her case had Scalia lived, and that, with Neil Gorsuch now sitting in place of Scalia, Janus and his co-plaintiff will win, Abood will be overturned, and public sector unions will be dealt a very serious blow.
While rich leftists are often assumed to be the main supporters of the Democratic Party, it is public sector unions that provide the lion’s share of the Democrats’ funding. They take money involuntarily from their members, a large majority of whom have never even voted on whether to be represented by a union, and many of whom disapprove of the union’s agenda, and recycle that money into left-wing causes, Democratic Party candidates, and inflated salaries for countless union officials. The entire system is the number one form of corruption in American public life.
If, as expected, Justice Gorsuch casts the decisive fifth vote in favor of Mark Janus, that cycle of corruption will come to a screeching halt.
ht/ wiscodave
Fill the Judgeships and Trump will transform your country back to the beacon of freedom, free enterprise, and capitalism it once was.
NO forced unions–please, please let it be! Too many unions have become political funnels pouring $$ into the filthy Communist-Democrat party.
It grinds my butt that all of those years I paid dues to my union were years that I was financially supporting the Demoncrap party. I would NEVER voluntarily give a penny to those commies.
Could this be the reason for the early demise of Judge Scalia? There could be hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.
@extirpates
If you’re trying to raise the suspicion that Scalia was murdered
I AGREE and
I’d like know why his death was never investigated.
Better get security details for all 5 conservative Justices NOW! And no hunting or golf trips!