White agreed with the majority that the state can permissibly impose qualifications on the officers of Local 54.
If Section 86 merely imposed qualifications on union officials, White concluded, the law would not be preempted by the NLRA.
If a board cannot impose any qualifications on director nominees, even before a contest materializes, then Section 141(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law has been effectively repealed.
In an attempt to forestall organized crime influence over labor unions, Sections 86 and 93 of the act imposed certain qualifications on officials of labor organizations representing casino industry workers.
Laws imposing "conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms" are permitted.
And the court said it had no quarrel with "laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms".
And: "nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.
He added: Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.
"[N]othing in our opinion," he wrote, "should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms".
Scalia's majority opinion seemed to take the hint when it declared, "nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms".
