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You specifically choose to do that. >> shannon: okay, you know the left was upset. let's start first well with the left side of the bench. justice kagan said "the decision will have large-scale cons with us. public employee unions will lose a secure source of financial support." she later said the majority has chosen the winners by turning the first amendment into a sword and using it against workaday economic and regulatory policy. mark, for you, this was all about the first amendment, whether you could be forced to use your money to subsidize someone else's political manage. >> the first ame...

Long fight. worth it. >> yes, definitely. there is approximately 5 million of us in 22 states across the country that this is going to effect. and it's just the fact that we want the choice to say yes as much as the choice to say no. and just kind of trying to make a little more even and understandable that we do have a choice for workers. this is for workers. and that's the bottom line here. and i also want to say that it's also only the public sector. this does not effect the private unions at all. strictly public sector unions. steve: as you did mention, it does impact 5 million coast to co...

Employees regardless of the fact if they were members or not. that's a violation of free speech and striking down this illino law and what's important is there are 22 states around the country that have similar laws like this and this does deal a majorlo to these public sector unions and their future, their financial stability. so the court in this case saying that it did violate the free speech of this particular employee. this is a ce brought by mark janus, a pub elect sector employee in illinois and he said i shouldn't be required to pay these fees to the union because it promotes political...

He is the plaintiff in the case and a child support specialist in the illinois deputy of health care and family. mark, thank you for being with us. tell us about your -- first of all you will go down in history not just because you had a supreme court case come down in your favor but it was the last case decided with kennedy on the bench. you felt it would infringe upon your first amendment rights to have to have money taken out of your paycheck every monday to go toward a public service union? >> that's correct. because i did not get the chance or the opportunity to make a decision on my own....

News. >> well, listening to mark janus, i think justice kennedy would be proud to have his -- one of his last decisions be the idea that the government can't force you to embrace speech that you disagree with. and so many of his decisions had that theme from the one striking down mandatory graduation prayers. of course, to the masterpiece keg an citizens united case. i guess i would just ask mark a question. i know that justice kennedy would ask, which is why is it wrong for the government to force you to embrace a message that you disagree with? >> well, i think it's wrong from the standpoint...