Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito: Evil or Stupid? And Does It Matter?
Tom Flynn in Free Inquiry:
Writing the majority opinion in Harris v. Quinn, a decision announced shortly before Hobby Lobby
that weakened public-sector labor unions, Associate Justice Samuel
Alito actually wrote: “Except in the rarest of circumstances, no person
in this country may be compelled to subsidize speech by a third party
that he or she does not wish to support.”
Alito had in mind dues-paying
union members whose unions might take political positions to which they
object.
Obviously, one could scarcely imagine Alito writing the same
sentence in regard to, say, nonreligious taxpayers compelled to
subsidize legislatures that open their sessions with sectarian prayer!
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