New Orleans The Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn, issued on a 5-4 ideological split, denying the union of home healthcare aides in Illinois the ability to collect agency servicing fees in lieu of full membership dues, will be crippling to many local unions, but not fatal. Regardless of the opinion rendered by Justice …
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Public Racism is now a Hope for Voters’ Rights
New Orleans Maybe in a weird, crazy way we are going to end up being able to find a silver lining in the dark cloud of the stark racism expressed recently by the Nevada rancher’s slavery bear hug and the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner’s snarling slurs to his mistress. How could progressives have picked more …
Supreme Court Ok’s Building A Separate and Unequal Educational System
New Orleans There are now more than a dozen states that have banned the use of race as an affirmative action tool in determining admission to state funded colleges and universities. The Supreme Court in reviewing a ban by voters in Michigan determined on a 6-2 vote that it was OK with them. They went …