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“Gorsuch, however, said nothing during arguments to indicate how he might vote.”
Good! They ALL need to follow his example and SU. Adjudicate the LAW, NO PERSONAL INTERPRETATIONS!
Hear that, John Roberts? A ‘tax’ my Aunt Fanny! Ppfftt!
Interesting. "Fair share" fees.
To me, that is analogous to requiring every American to pay a certain amount each year to the NRA, whether or not they are a member. After all, the NRA fights for everyone's right to keep and bear arms - even those who do not wish to exercise it.
Clarence Thomas has spoken up in oral arguments only a couple of times through the years. Perhaps Gorsuch is catching a little Thomas in his style.
Nothing to unions. Not one thin dime.
There shouldn’t even be public sector unions.
Public sector unions never should have been ALLOWED.
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First, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect union representation. So the Supremes would normally kick this case back to the state imo.
H O W E V E R …
As a consequence of the state allowing itself to be bullied by the union imo, the state taking money out of state paychecks on the union’s behalf, low-information state officials have unthinkingly violated Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A) imo by making sure union gets its union dues.
"14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"14th Amendment, Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
More specifically, the state is violating 14A because paycheck recipients are objecting that the union is doing political things that paycheck recipients disagree with, the state therefore an accomplice in abridging free speech of paycheck recipients imo.
And although the states have given Congress the 14A police power to make sure that states don’t abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, we still have a corrupt, post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration that will predictably not lift a finger to make punitive laws that discourage state officials from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights.
So regardless that the divided, institutionally indoctrinated Supremes now have the ball in this case, it is actually up to us patriots to pink-slip career federal lawmakers in 2018 elections, replacing them with patriot lawmakers who will commit to doing their job to make laws to prevent activist states from abridging citizen’s rights.
Corrections, insights welcome.
And until the states wake up and repeal 17A, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of Alabama's special Senate election, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
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Reading the headline, I thought that Gorsuch’s mom was a party to the case.
Gorusch is a man of quiet dignity and decency.
He truly is the best since Scalia.
Thank you President Trump for giving us such a wonderful SC judge. Let’s hope you make many more opportunities to make such appointments
Gut check time for Gorsuch, but I’m used to these decisions not going our way. We need a good 12 or 16 years to clean up the Court and the courts.
Walker in Wisconsin took the unions to the wood shed...his state is no longer going broke because of it...
I think the public sector unions are about to have an earthquake upend their corrupt purtid lives...