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Back to the Future with Scott Walker
Thom plus logo  If you want to catch a glimpse of what America would look like under President Scott Walker, you need to turn back the clock to one of the darkest periods in 20th century American history - the Lochner Era.

Here's a little history lesson just in case you don't know what I'm talking about. In the early 1900s, a bakery owner named Joseph Lochner sued the state of New York over its Bakeshop Act, which limited the number of hours bakery employees could work to 10 hours a day and 60 hours a week.

Lochner lost in the case in the New York Court of Appeals, but when he took it to the Supreme Court in 1905, he got the result he wanted. In a close 5 to 4 decision, the justices struck down the Bakeshop Act, citing Lochner's right under the 14th Amendment to run his business without "state interference."

Apparently, the Bakeshop Act violated that most fundamental of liberties -- the right of employers to work their employees to death. No one knew so at the time, but this ended being a big turning point in American history.

From when the Lochner case was decided in 1905 until the mid-1930s, the Supreme Court would go on all-out rampage against workers' rights.

Read more here.

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