On May 23, 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education. It was a terrible decision for worker freedom, and advocates for freedom have been trying to overturn it ever since.

Last year, California banned a painting of a Civil War battle from a county fair art show, because the painting included a Confederate battle flag. This was a misreading of California law (which, properly read, just limited what material the California government could itself sell and display), and the Center for Individual Rights sued on the artist’s behalf, arguing that this violated the First Amendment.

California’s ban on displaying the Confederate flag doesn’t apply to individuals even if they are on government property, state officials said this week in settling a free speech lawsuit.

The California Attorney General has ruled that a painting was wrongly banned at The Big Fresno Fair in 2016 for displaying the Confederate flag.

California prohibits its government agencies from selling or displaying the Confederate flag. But in a settlement of a lawsuit by an artist, who had to wait a year before his Civil War painting that included the Stars and Bars could be shown at a state-sponsored fair, the state has agreed that the ban doesn’t apply to private citizens on state property.

California’s ban on displaying the Confederate flag doesn’t apply to individuals even if they are on government property, state officials said this week in settling a free speech lawsuit.

Last year, the United States Supreme Court heard a landmark First Amendment case that was poised to end decades of an unfair practice by government unions. The oral arguments in that case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, went so heavily in favor of the plaintiff, that even the New York Times acknowledged Rebecca Friedrichs was likely to prevail.

Organized labor and its allies in the Democratic Party are bracing for a major hit to union power now that Justice Neil Gorsuch has a seat on the Supreme Court, fearing that he will tip the balance of the court toward overturning key legal precedents that benefit labor.

Michael Lujan Bevacqua asserts the Center for Individual Rights’ victorious federal lawsuit challenging a Guam plebiscite on the future of Guam’s relations with the United States was undertaken on behalf of “some of the worst parts of contemporary America” in the “unspoken defense of white male privilege.”

Last month, in a historic and unprecedented vote on a cabinet nominee, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as U.S. secretary of education. She had one of the rockier confirmation processes of all of Trump’s nominees, and it doesn’t look like things are getting any easier.