POWERLINE: Supreme misery for the Left.

In the Hobby Lobby case, the Court held that closely held corporations cannot be required to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees. The five center-right Justices formed the majority for that proposition.

In Harris v. Quinn, the Court, again with the five center-right Justices comprising the majority, held that individuals home health care workers cannot be required to pay dues to public employee unions, as they are not really public employees. The Court did not overrule past precedent holding that the First Amendment allows the government to condition a person’s employment in the public sector on that person’s paying fees to a union.

Almost a complete victory for the Right. My guess is that the past precedent of conditioning a person's employment in the public sector on that person's paying fees to a union will be under attack very soon.