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[–] TerrifiedTyphlosion 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Damned Jew.

Freedom of association must always be respected. Aside from that, weaponizing the First Amendment is...the point of having Amendments. They're negative rights, meant to suppress the government. Too bad that doesn't seem to be the case these days...

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[–] newoldwave ago  (edited ago)

Forcing employees to join a union is wrong so the half way measure of forced collection of union dues from those employees who chose not to join the union is equally wrong. Not only denying freedom of speech but denying freedom generally. Kagan is a pariah.

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[–] derram ago 

https://archive.fo/n3gBB :

Kagan accuses Supreme Court majority of weaponizing the First Amendment | TheHill

'Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in a scathing dissent on Wednesday accused her conservative colleagues of "weaponizing" the First Amendment after the court ruled public-sector unions can’t charge nonmembers a “fair-share” agency fee. '

'Conservative Justice Samuel Alito said the Abood ruling was poorly reasoned and wrongly decided. '

'Kagan disagreed, saying the court only decided to overturn the ruling because it wanted to pick the winning side in a policy debate.“The court today wreaks havoc on entrenched legislative and contractual arrangement,” she said from the bench.“Twenty-two states have enacted statutes authorizing agency fees. '

'In reaching its decision, the court overturned a 1977 precedent in a case, known as Abood, that allowed public-sector unions to collect fees from nonunion members for nonpolitical activities like collective bargaining without violating their First Amendment right to free speech. '

' Every one of them will now need to come up with new ways — elaborated in new statutes — to structure relations between government employer and their workers.”The court ruled on Tuesday that a California law requiring clinics known as "crisis pregnancy centers" to inform women about how to receive low-cost abortions and contraception from the state likely violates the First Amendment. '


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