{"id":337,"date":"2008-09-05T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:15:33","slug":"after-carrying-union-lawyers-water-bush-s-solicitor-general-is-humiliated-by-a-rare-supreme-court-rebuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/after-carrying-union-lawyers-water-bush-s-solicitor-general-is-humiliated-by-a-rare-supreme-court-rebuff\/","title":{"rendered":"After Carrying Union Lawyers&#8217; Water, Bush&#8217;s Solicitor General is Humiliated by a Rare Supreme Court Rebuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn an extremely rare move, the United States Supreme Court today has <a href=\"\/files\/nrtw\/SC%20Locke%20Order.pdf\">smacked down<\/a> (.pdf) the U.S. Solicitor General after he <a href=\"\/blog\/bush-administration-07302008\">tried to force his way into the October 6 oral arguments<\/a> in the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation&#8217;s upcoming <i>Locke v. Karass<\/i> case involving forced union dues.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBush&#8217;s SG (Paul Clement and now Gregory Garre) had, apparently at the behest of the U.S. Department of Labor, <a href=\"\/blog\/bushs-top-lawyer-taking-orders-big-labor\">previously filed an amicus brief<\/a> which supported organized labor&#8217;s legal position in key ways. In fact, SEIU union lawyers cited the government&#8217;s brief 14 times in their own brief.  As Foundation attorneys pointed out in their <a href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/files\/nrtw\/Lockeresponse.pdf\">response<\/a>, the federal government had no business even getting involved in this case, because no federal statute or federal interest is involved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is extremely unusual for the Solicitor General (often referred to as the Tenth Justice) to be turned down when requesting oral argument time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is a well-deserved slap in the face for the Solicitor General&#8217;s office and the Solicitor of Labor. They should be spending their time energy <i>enforcing <\/i>employees&#8217; rights, rather than trying to tear them down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Bush administration should now do the right thing and withdraw its outrageous legal brief immediately, as previously <a href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/files\/nrtw\/Letter to Secretary Chao.pdf\">demanded<\/a> (.pdf) by Foundation president Mark Mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn an extremely rare move, the United States Supreme Court today has <a href=\"\/files\/nrtw\/SC%20Locke%20Order.pdf\">smacked down<\/a> (.pdf) the U.S. Solicitor General after he <a href=\"\/blog\/bush-administration-07302008\">tried to force his way into the October 6 oral arguments<\/a> in the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation&#8217;s upcoming <i>Locke v. 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