Since 1990, she has written dozens of amicus briefs and directly represented dissenters in challenges to state-compelled subsidization of politicking.Charlotte GardenAssociate Professor, Seattle University School of LawUnion advocates pessimisticUnion advocates were mostly pessimistic heading into today’s argument in Friedrichs, but the justices’ questioning suggests that, if anything, they set their sights too high. The potential swing justices – Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John G. Roberts – were universally skeptical of the state/union position; in contrast, even the challengers’ more extreme arguments were met with tough questioning from only the four liberal-leaning justices.