The Court today granted review in Friedrichs v. California Teachers’ Ass’n. This suggests that four Justices may want to extend to public school teachers the right-to-work regime the Court imposed on home care workers in 2014 in Harris v. Quinn. That is no surprise. But while it takes the votes of only four Justices to grant review in a case, it is not obvious that there are five votes on the Court to overrule 30 years of precedent and hold unconstitutional a settled principle in the public sector labor laws of half the states.
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