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Brown signs anti-sunshine bill, setting up 1st Amdt battle. Do labor rights trump democracy?
[…] to receive information from their elected officials, and by elected officials’ derivative First Amendment rights to communicate with constituents about matters of public importance—-which union contracts covering government employees surely are. These communications are the essence of democracy, enabling the people to hold government accountable. And the essence of democracy is non-negotiable (to paraphrase […]
October 27, 2015