With Justice Kennedy’s retirement in July dovetailing into the Fall midterm elections, can We the People have a constitutional conversation, or just a political one? Partisan hyper-politics will line up red versus blue, liberal versus conservative, either-or, door number one or door number two. But let’s remind ourselves there’s a ...
On June 27, 2018 the Supreme Court issued its most important labor law decision in the past 40 years. In those four decades, a case named Abood was the leading precedent that allowed public sector unions to charge a so-called “agency fee” to nonmembers of the union for collective bargaining activities of the union. No more.
In its 5-4 decision ...