With New Burden on Unions, Court Tips the Balance Toward Corporations

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by John Nichols
The most politically partisan—and politically activist—Supreme Court in modern American history has already assumed that, when it comes to electioneering, corporations have pretty much the same rights as human beings. Indeed, the High Court’s Citizens United ruling has given corporations unprecedented flexibility to act on their own behalf to influence election campaigns and results.

Yet, the same Court has now said that groups of actual human beings—trade unions that have organized public-sector workers—must sacrifice their flexibility in order to meet standards never before demanded of labor organizations.

Do we detect a pattern here?

Of course.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-0

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1. Why doesn't he mention it was a 7-2 decision?

Ginsburg and Sotomayer sided with the majority. Surely they aren't pawns of corporations.