Supreme Court set to deal a sharp blow to unions for teachers and public employees

[Fife]

Carpenter v. United States

The biggest criminal-procedure case of the term, Carpenter v. United States, could also have far-reaching implications. Carpenter concerns whether police may obtain cell-site records, which show the general location of cell phones, without a warrant. As a general matter, the police are free to obtain information about suspects from third parties, such as where an eyewitness may have seen a suspect and what the suspect was doing. Therefore, the government argues, they should be able to get equivalent information from cell-phone companies. Yet given the pervasiveness of electronics, this could give the government access to extensive information about the whereabouts of large numbers of private citizens. As with prior cases about cell-phone searches and the use of GPS devices by police, Carpenter will force the justices to consider how traditional Fourth Amendment rules apply to modern technology.

I've only had time for a first drive-by of the various opinions, and especially the dissent (!) from Gorsuch.

However, this case has the earmarks of a bad motherfucker. Bet dat.

[Okeefenokee]

During the primaries for that election, she said that she would retire if a D won. Personally, I think she wanted to be able to give the first woman president the opportunity to replace a woman justice. She was probably pissed that Obama won, but she held out because for certain, Hillary would win next time.

I can't imagine she's not kicking herself in the ass about that misguided decision.

It reminds me of Lord of the Rings, in a way. It wasn't so much that Frodo was able to destroy the One Ring because he was good. Evil destroys itself in the end. Frodo and Golem finally gave in and battled over the ring, and in the raging fight that was the product of the influence of the evil ring, the damned thing just fell into Mount Doom anyway.

It just works itself out in the end.

Never would have thought a Catholic would have such a reductionist deterministic viewpoint. Frodo was chosen because he wasn't as easily corrupted as most men are. Hobbits aren't smart but they are good. I've met a lot of unintelligent to middling types that were very good people. I haven't met any gifted / super intelligent saints.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but GoG has been showing signs of marxism.

[The Conservative]

It reminds me of Lord of the Rings, in a way. It wasn't so much that Frodo was able to destroy the One Ring because he was good. Evil destroys itself in the end. Frodo and Golem finally gave in and battled over the ring, and in the raging fight that was the product of the influence of the evil ring, the damned thing just fell into Mount Doom anyway.

It just works itself out in the end.

Never would have thought a Catholic would have such a reductionist deterministic viewpoint. Frodo was chosen because he wasn't as easily corrupted as most men are. Hobbits aren't smart but they are good. I've met a lot of unintelligent to middling types that were very good people. I haven't met any gifted / super intelligent saints.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but GoG has been showing signs of marxism.

Umm, hellooo! Greece? The same country that has been battling with the EU for money and solvency?

You don’t say?!

The name should have given you a hint...

[Fife]

Never would have thought a Catholic would have such a reductionist deterministic viewpoint. Frodo was chosen because he wasn't as easily corrupted as most men are. Hobbits aren't smart but they are good. I've met a lot of unintelligent to middling types that were very good people. I haven't met any gifted / super intelligent saints.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but GoG has been showing signs of marxism.

Just watch out for the "gifted / super intelligent saints."

[GloryofGreece]

Yall showing love in a brotherly sort of way or really throwing shots?

[The Conservative]

Yall showing love in a brotherly sort of way or really throwing shots?

If they were throwing shots, you’d know.

[Okeefenokee]

There are certain marxist buzzwords that pique my radar.

Lived experience, for example.

[Fife]

Buh-bye, public unions.

5-4 up the poop chute.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/ca ... ouncil-31/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/1 ... 6_2b3j.pdf

What am I bid for the receivership of Illinois?

[Fife]

It's going better than even imagined.

Leave it to rebuked statist drug addicts to immanentize the eschaton.

Pour the gas right on the fire, baby.

Leftward ho: Unions reject move to middle

After the Janus ruling — public employees can’t be required to pay “agency fees” to unions — some thought that “unions might temper their left-wing politics” to keep members from quitting, write Rick Hess and Grant Addison on National Review. That’s not happening.

“We’re becoming more political, not less political,” American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten declared at the union’s annual convention, which featured speeches by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and an award for Hillary Clinton.

[Okeefenokee]