Political Quotes

“Mr. President, last year, powerful corporate interest groups actually stole a Supreme Court seat and handed it over to their handpicked choice, Neil Gorsuch. Now those powerful corporate groups are about to use that seat to deal a devastating blow to hard-working teachers, firefighters, nurses, and police all across this country. On September 28, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a case called Janus v. AFSCME Council 31. AFSCME 31 is a union representing public sector workers in Illinois. This case will determine whether the public sector unions that represent teachers, nurses, firefighters, and police officers in States and cities across the country can collect fees from all the employees in the workplaces they represent. Many expect that Justice Gorsuch will deliver the deciding vote in that case, that he will force unions to represent employees who do not pay dues and, in doing so, cut off sustainable funding for public union organizing. Judges are supposed to be impartial, but there is no reason to expect that Justice Gorsuch will be impartial in this case. On the afternoon of September 28--the very same day that the Supreme Court announced that it would hear the Janus case--Justice Gorsuch attended a luncheon at the Trump International Hotel. And he didn't just attend an event at a hotel that makes money for the President. Nope.…”