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Professor Howard Wasserman analyzed the arguments in Heffernan v. City of Paterson for SCOTUSBlog. The case considers the political association rights of public employees. To read Prof. Wasserman’s analysis click here.

Howard M. Wasserman, Argument analysis: The First Amendment, political inactivity, and improper government motive, SCOTUSblog (Jan. 20, 2016, 7:08 AM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/01/argument-analysis-howard-wasserman/

In Tuesday’s argument in Heffernan v. City of Paterson, the Justices considered a case that Justice Samuel Alito called a law school hypothetical — whether a public employee can show a violation of his right to political association when he was demoted explicitly