Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, Union Security, Campaign Finance, and the First Amendment

In 2016, the Supreme Court took the case Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association that would solidify its place in society not as an impartial referee, the last refuge in a politicized world, but as a political actor itself. The case presented the Court with an amalgamation of every attack levied at agency shops in the last 40 years. Petitioners relied on the Court's approach to campaign finance jurisprudence which had declared that money is speech and invoked the muddled areas of compelled speech and the compelled subsidization of speech. After evaluating the Court's approach to union security and campaign finance it is clear the Court has used the First Amendment to elevate corporate speech while also using it in labor management to undermine the union.