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Elrod Vs. Burns

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 28, 1976

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  17. U.S. 347 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Elrod v. Burns
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  18. U.S. 347 (1976) Elrod v. Burns
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  19. force a public employee to relinquish his right to political association as the price of holding a public job, Perry v. Sindermann
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  20. Keyishian v. Board
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  21. only by interests of vital importance, the burden of proving the existence of which rests upon the government, Buckley v. Valeo
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  22. be granted. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, relying on Illinois State Employees Union v. Lewis
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  23. its resolution is committed by the Constitution to a branch of the Federal Government other than this Court. Baker v. Carr
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  24. a function ultimately the responsibility of this Court. Id. at 369 U. S. 211 . See Powell v. McCormack
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  25. President. The political question doctrine, therefore, is no obstacle to judicial review in this case. See Williams v. Rhodes
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  26. executed requires the power of appointment or removal at will, unimpaired by any judicial oversight. They cite Myers v. United
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  27. This trend led the Court to observe in CSC v. Letter
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  28. viewed in retrospect, may help to assess its workings with respect to constitutional limitations. Compare Brown v. Board
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  29. of Education, 347 U. S. 483 (1954), with Page 427 U. S. 355 Plessy v. Ferguson
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  30. s views and ultimately his own beliefs, and any assessment of his salary is tantamount to coerced belief. See Buckley v. Valeo
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  31. of the nature of the inducement, whether it be by the denial of public employment or, as in Board of Education v. Barnette
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  32. beliefs and ideas is a form of 'orderly group activity' protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. NAACP v. Button
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  33. Bates v. Little
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  34. Illinois State Employees Union v. Lewis
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  35. through the conditioning of public employment on political faith. The Court recognized in United Public Workers v. Mitchell
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  36. This Page 427 U. S. 358 principle was reaffirmed in Wieman v. Updegraff
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  37. to establish their loyalty by extracting an oath denying past affiliation with Communists. And in Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy
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  38. Particularly pertinent to the constitutionality of the practice of patronage dismissals are Keyishian v. Board
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  39. of Regents, 385 U. S. 589 (1967), and Perry v. Sindermann
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  40. could not command directly.' Speiser v. Randall
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  41. to dispose of one suggested by petitioners' reference to this Court's affirmance by an equally divided court in Bailey v. Richardson
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  42. U. S. 634 , 413 U. S. 644 (1973) (quoting Graham v. Richardson
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  43. is firmly established that a significant impairment of First Amendment rights must survive exacting scrutiny. Buckley v. Valeo
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  44. one of vital importance, and the burden is on the government to show the existence of such an interest. Buckley v. Valeo
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  45. it is not enough that the means chosen in furtherance of the interest be rationally related to that end. Sherbert v. Verner
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  46. interest provided by the means must outweigh the incurred loss of protected rights, see United Public Workers v. Mitchell
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  47. supra at 414 U. S. 59 (citations omitted). See United States v. Robel
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  48. U.S. Supreme Court Elrod v. Burns
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  49. Court. Baker v. Carr
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  50. See Powell v. McCormack
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