Yesterday, in a 7-2 decision written by Justice Stevens (Chamber of Commerce v. Brown), the Supreme Court struck down a California law that penalized businesses for opposing unionization, unless they could prove that no state money was spent in doing so. Given the facts that money is fungible and the government is at least tangentially involved in almost everything, this was an open invitation to unions and their allies to litigate against any firm that had the temerity to say that workers might be better off without a union.

The Wall Street Journal covers the case here.

What is notable in this is the willingness of the left to use the threat of lawsuits to stifle freedom of speech. We often hear that “liberals” are great defenders of the First Amendment, but in truth they don’t like the marketplace of ideas any better than the like the marketplace for goods and services. Freedom is always an obstacle to plans for control and domination.