Posted on 02/19/2018 5:04:56 PM PST by jazusamo
When Mark Janus got his first paycheck working as a child support specialist for the state of Illinois in 2007, he was stunned to see a nearly $50 deduction for union dues.
He had worked for the state in the 1980s and didn’t remember anything like it.
“I’m going like, ‘I’m not a member of the union. What’s going on here?’” he said.
Worse yet was where he saw the union dues going, such as to efforts demanding wage increases at a time when Illinois was struggling with a crippling pension debt.
Now Mr. Janus is taking his case to the Supreme Court. Justices this month will hear his attorneys argue that he is being forced to subsidize views he doesn’t support, violating his core First Amendment rights.
The case is one of the most-watched this term, two years after a union dues case ended in a 4-4 deadlock. Conservative activists are hoping that with Justice Neil M. Gorsuch bringing the court to nine members, they will be able to reach a decision and rein in the powerful unions.
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Roberts will screw us again.
Amen...We need at least two more conservative judges from President Trump.
Only the government can force you to buy something that you don’t want.
What about mandatory health insurance payments or face a fine or a tax.
a few crumbs here, a few crumbs there add up to quite a basket full of crumbs.
Hundreds of millions per election cycle.
It doesn’t matter what the courts or the laws say, extortion and theft by unions, or otherwise, are crimes. The lawyers amd judges can shove that up there.
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