Activist Obama Judges Defy Higher Court

Obama Judicial Appointees Have Established an Alarming Pattern.

the 46 Obama appellate court nominees who were confirmed by the Senate have established an unmistakable and alarming pattern of “reinterpreting” federal labor laws.

Time and again, they have undermined court precedents and statutes that protect, at least to a limited degree, employees’ freedom to affiliate with a union.

An egregious case in point is the October 2017 ruling by two judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Riffey v. Rauner.

In the decision, Judges Diane Wood (who was appointed chief judge of the Seventh Circuit by Mr. Obama in 2013) and David Frank Hamilton (appointed by Mr. Obama in 2009) found that Big Labor Illinois politicians and union officials had not violated the constitutional rights of in-home care providers.

Judges Wood and Hamilton claimed that the government does not inflict a First Amendment injury on such individuals when it forces them to subsidize Organized Labor speech without their prior consent.

They reached this conclusion even though the U.S. Supreme Court had already ruled in its 2014 Harris decision, argued and won by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, that forcing homecare providers to pay for union-boss advocacy is unconstitutional.

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