SCOTUS and Public Sector Unions

[The wealthy and the corporations already own Congress and the Supreme Court, now they want to own your ass. ---Bozo]

From Robert Reich

As the Republican majority on the Supreme Court gets ready to kill off public-sector unions (which can’t function if everyone can free ride off the fees paid by just a few), in the “Freidrichs vs. California Teachers Association” case the Court heard yesterday -- and thereby pave the way for killing off unions in the private sector (making “right-to-work” laws a Constitutional imperative) -- it’s important to see the larger picture.

The Republican Court’s agenda is all about disempowering the majority and further empowering a privileged minority at the top. That’s why they opened the floodgates to big money in politics in “Citizens United” in 2010 and “McCutcheon v. FEC” in 2014. It’s why they gutted the Voting Rights Act in “Shelby vs. Holder” in 2013. It's why they’ve almost closed the door to class actions against big corporations, in “AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion” in 2011, and “Comcast v. Behrend” in 2013. And it explains their anti-union agenda.

The Republicans on the Supreme Court don’t care about legal precedent (several of their decisions fly directly in the face of previous Court rulings). They don’t worry about legal activism (they’re the most activist court since the Warren Court). They don’t give a fig even about the consistency of their own opinions (don’t even try to figure out how Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and Roberts can square their recent opinions with several of their former ones).

Their goal is to permanently entrench the powerful in America. Not coincidentally, this goal is shared with those who were behind their nominations to begin with, who have subsequently wined and dined several of them, and who have found the plaintiffs and sponsored the litigation that’s got all these cases onto the Court’s docket. Who are they? The Koch brothers and their billionaire allies.
All of which makes the stakes in this November's election even higher.

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