Excellent.
Well, it’s not the Healthcare ruling we were looking for, but it’s surely a good ruling and important in it’s own right.
I’m sure Andy Stern and his Thug Brigade are taken aback, not only by the ruling, but the margin. This means that Sotomayor and Ginsberg voted with the conservatives.
A brief moment of clarity in two otherwise addled minds.
They must be the smart ones. ; )
Breyer and Kagan are Pro-Theft!
The biggest story you are going to hear ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT on the Evening News Shows.
This has HUGE implications for the Union funding of Democrat political Campaigns, and everybody knows it. Which is why the Big Media is going to go COMPLETELY SILENT about it.
Great news, but why weren’t these types of lawsuits done many years ago?
I wouldn't be able to do it.
Glad to see that the union workers can now opt out of this political extortion scheme.
At the USPS membership in the APWU and the Mailhandlers unions are optional. Considering every fall they tell us to shut upo and vote for dems, and the pres of the NPMHU is one of Mumia Jamal’s lovers, this option is a no-brainer for me.
Fox led with this story an hour ago, NPR ignored it.
ALL unions.
Before this ruling, union members were forced to pay additional fees for democrat campaigns. Many union members weren't democrat, but were forced to fund their campaigns anyway. This does away with that.
Because union members are no longer forced to financially support democrats, their union funding is going to go way down. The dem politicians must be freaking out right now. Union members are free to tell the democrats to stuff it!
so Kagan is even nuttier than Ginsburg.
wow.
Leni
So will the unions be forced to give the money back?
Great news! Thanks, KansasGirl...
Any word on health care decisions? http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/ is still on 6/18 posts.
Many years ago I worked for a school district maintenance division in California, where there was a strong union. I had no political leanings at the time. I was young and didn’t care about politics at all. But when it was time to join the union, and I saw that they would deduct money from my paycheck, I asked if it was lawful for me to *not join. When they begrudgingly said that I couldn’t legally be required to join, I declined the membership. They insinuated that my co-workers would dislike me for not joining, and that I wasn’t pulling my weight. Even as a political child, I knew that I would never voluntarily give money to a union.
This is a nice little ruling but the single most critical battle in the GOP war for California is to be fought this fall.
The Union Goons will pull out the stops to defeat this because we are seeking to drain their lifeblood — massive amounts of guarnteed Union membership money in election after election, ad infinitum.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_%22Paycheck_Protection%22_Initiative_(2012)
The Union Thugs are already ramping up in a major way to defeat this prop that will kneecap them, and calling it “Paycheck Deception”.
It is critical that the California voters pass “Paycheck Protection”. This is a severe uphill fight because the California employees union will still have access to the full war chest in order to defeat this proposition.
Also, the stakes are as large for the California unions facing a lost of union dues for politicas, as it was for the Wisconsin Unions to face Scott Walkers reforms.
Se are going to need a repeat of Wisconsin in California.
I am on my knees begging all Freepers of any means to donate to the Paycheck Protection proposition. It doesn’t yet have a number but once we have a proposition number and a PAC, you wonderful, generous Conservatives are going to be sorely needed to help fund the campaign to pass this CRUCIAL proposition.
Nothing on the horizon could set the California Democrats back so far or so fast as passing Paycheck Protection.
This SCOTUS sucks, where are the other rulings?? They know what they are, why wont they tell us? The whole thing is like Geraldo opening that stupid safe..
This was a no brainer. Seriously mandatory funds taken from pay checks for union???? Never should have gotten beyond first court room. Total waste of time for everyone. I could have easily ruled on this case with ZERO legal background.
You mean we got Ruth Buzzi?