West Coast Teamsters break with national chapter in endorsing Harris

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35. I can think of another good reason for truckers to not support Trump

TransAm Trucking v Labor Review Board was a decision handed down by the 10th Circuit when Neil Gorsuch was on that court, and Gorsuch was one of the judges who heard the case.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca10/15-9504/15-9504-2016-07-15-0.html

The facts of this case are clear: Truck driver Alphonse Maddin was pulling a load through Illinois when he was close to running out of fuel. He pulled the truck to the side of the road to call his dispatch for authorization to fuel out-of-network. Within 10 minutes the brakes on the trailer froze solid. Dispatch ordered him to sit tight and wait for a mechanic to come thaw the brakes. The guy almost died of hypothermia in the process. Maddin unhooked his trailer, went to a truck stop to warm up, then returned to the trailer where someone was finally there to thaw the brakes. Maddin was fired for "abandoning his load." The National Labor Relations Board ruled that he'd been fired in violation of the whistleblower protection clauses in the Surface Transportation Authorization Act and ordered TransAm to reinstate him. They appealed all the way up to the 10th Circuit, who refused to overturn the NLRB. The decision was 2-1...the judge who decided TransAm was right in firing a driver who refused to die in his cab was Neil Gorsuch.

This is the first of three bad judges Trump welded into the Supreme Court.