The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 that public-sector workers cannot be required to pay fees to the unions that represent them.
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Kagan’s dissent, in which she was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, was a withering critique of the majority’s willingness to overturn the precedent set in an earlier landmark case. She also said her right-leaning colleagues turned the First Amendment into “a sword” used to influence politics and the economy.