Petition of the day

Issue: (1) Whether a governors subjective motives for exercising a states inherent power and contractual right to reduce the size of its unionized workforce are legally relevant when a court is asked to determine the constitutionality of that legislative act; and (2) whether the Second Circuit erred in requiring strict scrutiny of a governors decision to reduce the size of a states unionized workforce by falsely analogizing that decision to firing state employees based on their political party affiliation.