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‘In Order To Save Democracy,’ Unions Say Supreme Court ‘Reform Is An Immediate Necessity’

Published Friday, July 5, 2024
by Labor News Story Link To People’s World
‘In Order To Save Democracy,’ Unions Say Supreme Court ‘Reform Is An Immediate Necessity’

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports from Washington, D.C. that in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority ruling giving former President Donald Trump almost total absolute immunity forever from Federal prosecution, Labor Unions and more than 100 progressive allies have revived a dormant campaign to get Congress to change the Court.  Organized by Demand Justice, the United for Democracy Coalition - which includes the Nation’s two big Teachers’ Unions, the Coalition of Labor Union Women and The Workers Circle - plan a $10 million advertising blitz aimed at voters to get them to lobby Lawmakers for an ethics code, term limits for Justices, court expansion and other reforms.  The point, they said, is to “restore balance” on the High Court bench, but it’s also to try to pre-empt a further ideological tilt should Trump, the presumed GOP/MAGA nominee, return to the Oval Office by defeating Democratic President Joe Biden.  Reforming the court is important to Workers and their allies.  Testifying before a “Court Reform” Commission that Biden appointed early in his Administration, National AFL-CIO General Counsel Craig Becker, a former National Labor Relations Board member, said the Court is so slanted against Workers that Unions don’t want to bring cases there, knowing they’ll automatically lose.

To Read This Labor News Report In Its Entirety, Go To: EMERGENCY: To save democracy, unions say Supreme Court reform an immediate necessity – People's World (peoplesworld.org)

 

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