Supreme Court Ruling Upholds Private Property Rights (Farm Bureau)

TL;DR, the Farm Bureau is cheering the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court decision overturning a 1975 California state law allowing union organisers onto farmland where farmers provide housing for farm workers.

Essentially, the Supreme Court has authorised slavery again, under the rubric in John Roberts’s majority opinion of an “unconstitutional taking.”

Of course, union organisers are taking nothing, and there is no mention from the conservative majority about the rights of association by farm workers.

Some have compared the ruling to the reimposition of slavery in California.

The case was kicked off by a couple of farm workers getting mad and walking off from union organisers on a farm. The owner then sued the state arguing an unconstitutional taking of his property (apparently that would be the farm workers, since the union organisers didn’t take any actual property).

Because of this, it has also been compared to declaring traffic lights unconstitutional because someone decided to run one (like the Christian up above).