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December 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

The Trump administration has finalized its rule granting broader exemptions to religious institutions under President Obama’s executive order forbidding federal contractors from engaging in anti-LGBTQ discrimination. The new rule will go into effect on January 8. According to Washington Blade, the rule’s definition of a “religious institution” is vague enough to allow a wide variety […]

November 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Union organizers may lose the ability to reach farmworkers on their work premises. The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Cedar Point Nursery vs. Hassid to consider whether a California regulation that entitles organizers to enter agricultural property violates the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, Bloomberg Law reports. The rule allows organizers to access […]

October 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the Supreme Court. You can read OnLabor’s discussion of her history on workers’ issues on the Seventh Circuit here. You can read OnLabor’s discussion of her textualism as it relates to her Kleber decision here. Bloomberg Law has received more information on the whistleblower complaint regarding the […]

October 26, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

In a near party-line vote this Sunday, the Senate took its second-to-final step toward seating Amy Coney Barrett on the country’s highest court, thwarting Senate Democrat’s efforts to stall the highly controversial confirmation. Trump’s third nominee to the Supreme Court, Barrett’s confirmation would consolidate a 6-3 conservative majority on the court. The confirmation is expected […]

Amy Coney Barrett and the Overconfidence and False Modesty of Textualism

Oct 23, 2020 Jenny Hunter

Last week’s confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett contained all the elements you probably put on your 2020 SCOTUS hearing bingo card, if you were in to that sort of thing. The Republican senators talked a lot about Judge Barrett’s seven children. The Democratic Senators talked about the life and death consequences if the […]

October 19, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

The Senate is set to vote on two stimulus measures this Tuesday and Wednesday, CNN reports. They will first vote on the stand-alone Paycheck Protection Program designed to provide relief to small businesses. Then, on Wednesday, Senate Republicans will try to pass a $500 billion stimulus package. The stimulus package is the same package House […]

October 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday’s headlines were dominated by the ongoing confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. At Wednesday’s hearing, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) grilled Barrett on, among other things, the Supreme Court’s controversial 2018 decision regarding public-sector union dues in the case Janus v. AFSCME. Noting Judge Barrett’s own emphasis on the conventional litigation process, […]

Amy Coney Barrett is as Anti-Worker as the Rest of Trump’s Judges

Oct 7, 2020 Andrew Strom

The media is giving so much attention to how the next Supreme Court Justice may affect the continued vitality of Roe v. Wade that voters may not fully appreciate how yet another Donald Trump appointee on the court will cement the Court’s anti-worker tilt for decades. On one level, Judge Barrett’s nomination is less significant […]

September 28, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

President Trump announced Saturday his intention to nominate federal appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Barrett likens her judicial philosophy to that of the late Antonin Scalia, a notorious labor antagonist. Indeed, the solidification of the conservative majority on the high court is expected to result in considerable losses for organized […]

Commentary Round-up: Bostock v. Clayton County

Jun 16, 2020 Jared Odessky and Leigh Thomas

“The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday outlawing anti-LGBTQ employment discrimination is a triumph for both the country and the [C]ourt,” wrote Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern. “It is a victory for the country because, in one fell swoop, [t]he [C]ourt granted vital protections to LGBTQ people in every state . . . . It is a […]

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December 8, 2020

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October 27, 2020

October 26, 2020

Amy Coney Barrett and the Overconfidence and False Modesty of Textualism

October 19, 2020

October 15, 2020

Amy Coney Barrett is as Anti-Worker as the Rest of Trump’s Judges

September 28, 2020

Commentary Round-up: Bostock v. Clayton County