Supreme Court Drops Hammer On Massive Democrat Voting Block In Stunning 8 - 1 Decision
Jul 27, 2024
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Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America, and the Supreme
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Court just dealt a heavy, heavy blow to a major Democrat voting bloc
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Now June is known for a lot of different things, a lot of different groups and organizations
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claim it as their particular month, right? But one thing June is also known for is it begins, I like to call it Supreme Court month
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This is the month you're going to see a whole lot of decisions being handed down that have
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been cases that have been worked on all year and they're going to get bigger usually. This is how it usually works
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They're going to get bigger and bigger and more consequential as time goes on in the
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month of June as we head toward July. As you remember Roe vs. Wade was basically struck down, overturned, whatever you want
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to call it, last year towards the end of June. So I like to call this Supreme Court month
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And one of the decisions that came down today was the Teamsters Union was being sued by
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a construction company in Washington, D.C. Now as it turned out, the union went on strike and when they did, they left concrete in this
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company's trucks. The workers were able, the other workers who weren't on strike were able to get the concrete
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out of the trucks before it destroyed the trucks. But it did cause damage to property and the concrete company thought they should be able
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to sue. But they had been, you know, the case had gone back and forth in the lower courts
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But when it got to the Supreme Court, and this is a stunner, in an 8-1 decision with
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two of the Supreme Court liberal justices siding with all the conservatives, they ruled
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in favor of the concrete company. The only judge who did not side with them was Katanji Jackson-Brown
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That's the one who was appointed by President Joe Biden. She said it could hamper the ability of a union to strike, but the other justices didn't
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see it that way. They said the ability to strike basically does not mean the ability to damage and destroy property
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These are two different things. This is a major blow to unions in general and their bargaining positions across the board
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Because now they know they can get sued for damages. Where do the damages stop
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Is lost to business a damage they could get sued for? Who knows
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There's a lot of different things that you could say are damages, right
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Caused by a strike. So this opens up, I think, even more future litigation
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And so that's going to be very interesting to see. Apparently, the conservative justices wanted to take it further
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But to get the two liberals on board with them, they didn't
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Now I don't understand why that is, because you had the majority either way, go as far
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as you want. But they wanted to make it more of a cohesive bipartisan, if you will, even though the court
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doesn't work that way. But more of a bipartisan, universal decision. So I get that
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This obviously is a major Democrat voting bloc. As you guys know, unions are overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly Democrat
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So obviously, you're going to hear the White House speak out against this decision, most
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likely, and other Democrat politicians. Now, some experts have weighed in and they said that they think it doesn't hurt the ability
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of unions to strike. Others have said that it does. And some actually kind of fall in the middle
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So it's interesting, depending on what expert you talk to, which is why I say I believe
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there's going to be future litigation here. Because it's not really apparent from what we're, you know, just from the decision itself
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It leaves a lot to interpretation. We've got to see where this lands
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I think they're going to be back in court at some point with another union and another company. Folks, I want to thank you for watching Explain America
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Again, I'm Carmine Sabia. We love you guys. God bless you. Take care, everybody
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