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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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