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发帖数: 29576 | 1 Trump administration asks Supreme Court to overrule precedent helping unions
The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overrule a
40-year-old precedent that allows states to require public employees to pay
fees to unions that represent them, an important tool for the U.S. labor
movement.
It was another dramatic reversal in a high-profile case before the high
court, and at least the third time since President Trump's inauguration that
the Justice Department has renounced its past positions, some held for
decades.
It puts the administration squarely on the side of conservative legal
activists, who have complained for years that the requirement violates the
free-speech rights of those who don't want to join the union or pay fees to
it.
The Supreme Court precedent the administration wants to overturn says that
unions may charge all employees for the cost of collective bargaining, but
not for the union's political activities. About 20 states allow that
practice.
The Obama administration supported the unions in previous challenges, and
when the issue was last before the court in January 2016. It appeared from
oral arguments that challenge would be successful, but Justice Antonin
Scalia died a month later, and the court announced that it had split, 4 to 4
, on the issue.
With Justice Neil M. Gorsuch taking Scalia's place, the court announced in
September it was taking a new challenge on the issue.
"The government reconsidered the question" after the new grant, says聽the
brief filed by Solicitor General Neal J. Francisco. "The government's
previous briefs gave insufficient weight to the First Amendment interest of
public employees in declining to fund speech on contested matters of public
policy."
The court's decision in 1977's聽Abood v. Detroit Board of Education聽"is
inconsistent with prevailing First Amendment precedent and should be
overruled."
It is at least the third time since the election that the Justice Department
has switched its position on an issue at the Supreme Court. While different
views are expected when control of the White House moves from one party to
another, they can sometimes cause problems for the government lawyers who
argue at the high court.
The office of the solicitor general, which represents the government at the
Supreme Court, is supposed to supply the court with a consistent view of the
law without undue partisan considerations.
The Trump administration already has changed its view on one case involving
worker's rights that created a rift with the National Labor Relations Board.
In another, it changed the Justice Department's long-standing position on
how states may purge inactive voters from the rolls.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/courts_law/trump-
administration-asks-supreme-court-to-overrule-precedent-helping-unions/2017/
12/06/64794b1a-dabc-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?tid=ss_tw | e********r
发帖数: 556 | | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 3 禁止强迫交会费以后工会要死一半。
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: 只有干掉工会才能MAGA
| h*****3
发帖数: 526 | 4 牛鼻
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: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to overrule precedent helping unions
: The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overrule a
: 40-year-old precedent that allows states to require public employees to pay
: fees to unions that represent them, an important tool for the U.S. labor
: movement.
: It was another dramatic reversal in a high-profile case before the high
: court, and at least the third time since President Trump's inauguration that
: the Justice Department has renounced its past positions, some held for
: decades.
: It puts the administration squarely on the side of conservative legal
| T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 5
政府工会就是榨纳税人钱给民主党买单，把他们搞残意义非常大。
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发帖数: 2932 | 6 this is going to be HUGE positive for US if it become true! | a****1
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发帖数: 8992 | 8 哎！！！
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: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to overrule precedent helping unions
: The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overrule a
: 40-year-old precedent that allows states to require public employees to pay
: fees to unions that represent them, an important tool for the U.S. labor
: movement.
: It was another dramatic reversal in a high-profile case before the high
: court, and at least the third time since President Trump's inauguration that
: the Justice Department has renounced its past positions, some held for
: decades.
: It puts the administration squarely on the side of conservative legal
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