Well, welcome back to the Bill Bennett Show. It's the podcast that takes a deeper look at the news of the day and gives you thoughtful perspective about what's happening in America, at home and abroad.

Joining me today is Paul K Kingor, author and professor of

political science at Grove City College. We're going to talk about Supreme Court.

Justice Kennedy retiring. Will Trump get a pick through with the

Democrats planning to resist? And Brian Kennedy will join us as well.

He's president of the American Strategy Group.

I'm a fellow of the American Strategy Group here in Washington.

Brian Kennedy will talk to us about China,

the new and rising threat of China in so many ways. But first, I got to make

a couple of notations on things that are going on. Two, principally, one, because of the resignation of Kennedy, people have missed the significance of the Janus decision by the Supreme Court.

No longer will people be compelled to pay union dues.

Public servants, public, civil servants.

To me, this means teachers unions.

This can free up the teachers to do things they haven't done before. First they won't

be compelled to support the political activities of unions which almost always go

and vote to the left. Second, resources can now be used in other ways. Let me give you an example, just a quick

example. Because the way it works now, people being compelled to pay these dues into an organization which then collectively bargains for them.

The organization says these are our priorities and if people disagree it's tough they still have to

support financially. Well one policy that the unions have put in place most in most

places is last hired first released. If you were hired to be a teacher last year and there need to be layoffs

Then you're the first to go not on the merits not on the basis of who's good, who's great, but simply on the

basis of what the union says, which is, uh, last tired first fired. Ah, that's a crazy policy.

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