JUDGMENT DAY: It's the last day of the Supreme Court term with two rulings left -- one of which is a major challenge to the influence of public sector unions. Based on the oral argument & court's conservative majority, unions expect to lose:https://reut.rs/2KsJqYT
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Also good news for Republicans, as illustrated by this reaction:https://twitter.com/BrendanBuck/status/1011973853042692096 …
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Justice Kagan is reading at length from her dissent, in which she accused the court of "weaponizing" the First Amendment
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Alito says that "legal and economic backdrop" has changed since the 1977 Abood ruling, noting that rise of unions led to increases in public spending, and subsequently to problems funding benefits packages (and municipal bankruptcies). Says Abood is an "anomaly."
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STORY: Supreme Court delivers blow to organized labor in fees disputehttps://reut.rs/2KsvCxs
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Presidential tweet doesn't quite nail what the case was about. Non-member workers already could support candidates of their choosing and unions had to separate out political spending from collective bargaining spending. Now non-members don't have to pay unions anythingpic.twitter.com/bUR8arQf4U
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Supreme Court ruling "could reduce the cash that unions can pump into Democratic campaigns for congressional elections in November" https://reut.rs/2tAL3tT via
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#SCOTUS rulings are a wake up call—why Dems must take back the House and Senate in November. If Trump nominates and gets just one more Justice confirmed it will eclipse for decades even the daily damage that@realDonaldTrump is wielding.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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SCOTUS ended its legitimacy this week.
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It's an equally big, or bigger, loss for the DNC, and ALL Democrat campaigns.
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