The Law of the Land

The Supreme Court’s Doubtful Analogy

The opinion of the Supreme Court late last spring, holding invalid state “right to work” laws as applied to employees subject to the Railway Labor Act, drew an analogy between compulsory union membership and the “integrated bar”: “On the present record, there is no more an infringement or impairment of First Amendment rights than there would be in the case of a lawyer who by state law is required to be a member of an integrated bar.”