Another Terrible SCOTUS Ruling

Following their two dreadful decisions yesterday, the Supreme Court majority held in Janus v. AFSCME that "requiring nonmembers of public-sector unions to pay fees to cover collective-bargaining activities violates the First Amendment, overruling longstanding precedent."

The complete decision [PDF].

This is a very bad decision, for a whole lot of reasons, not least of which include that it is a very racist and very misogynist decision:

remember: the anti-union movement is deeply routed in racism. The #Janus case is an attack on public sector unions, where Black & Brown workers are overrepresented.

Here is ALEC's rally against unions featuring mostly white, male interns:https://t.co/EtPeGqsQhp

— Jay Riestenberg (@JayRiestenberg) June 25, 2018

Women make up more than half of union-represented employees in the public sector - they earn higher wages & face smaller gender wage gaps than women who don’t have a union. An attack on #Janus puts all working people—women especially—at risk. #UnRigtheEconomy pic.twitter.com/gSxreTiaKg

— NARAL (@NARAL) June 27, 2018

I wish I had something better to say than this, but all I got at the moment is: I feel utterly grief-stricken, watching everything I value about this deeply imperfect country being dismantled, with glee and haste.