Richard Epstein
By Richard Epstein
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Opinion It’s Time To Strip Public Unions Of Their Monopoly Power
This past term, in Davenport v. Washington Educational Association, a unanimous Supreme Court rebuffed a union claim that its rights to freedom of speech were violated by a Washington state referendum which provided that unions could not use mandatory “agency shop fees” to influence elections or to operate political committees unless those payouts were “affirmatively…
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News Rule Roe v. Wade Inadmissable In Alito’s Confirmation Hearings
The fight over Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is, as expected, heating up in anticipation of his pending confirmation hearings in January. And equally as expected, regrettably, the abortion issue is again looming so large that it is crowding everything else off stage. The theatrics over Alito began last week with the public release of…
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