Justice Kagan dons her capo gown
February 28, 2018
Organized labor took off the gloves Monday, warning the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court that freeing public employees from mandatory union dues would lead to strikes and union violence. It was ugly. The Court heard oral arguments challenging laws in 22 states and the District of Columbia that force public employees to pay unions to represent them, even if they disagree with the union’s demands and politics.
Mark Janus, a child support specialist and public employee in Illinois, claims his First Amendment free speech rights are being violated when he is forced to pay money to a union — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The union “uses my monthly fees to promote an agenda I don’t support,” Janus objects.............A not so subtle threat. No wonder the lawyer for Janus labeled the mandatory fees “protection money.” He asks, who can defend the “idea that the government needs to force its employees to subsidize unions or otherwise the unions will disrupt the government.”...........It’s unlikely contracts will be invalidated. But to answer Kagan’s question, the “justification” is called the United States Constitution............To Read More.....
My Take - Two things are being made clear in this - one, Kagan is going to be exactly what everyone on the right thought she would be - a leftist lunatic just like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and it's clear she's going to be there for the rest of her life, which is another clear demonstration of we need a 28th Amendment creating age and term limits for the federal judiciary.
Secondly, if the only argument labor attorneys have is threatening to have civil disorder, disruption of services and extremist tactics by labor, then it's time these unions were dismantled as terrorists organizations or prosecuted under RICO.
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