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An assault on citizens' rights.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JUL-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: An assault on citizens' rights.(President's Page)

Article Excerpt
I recently heard a statistic that, although it didn't surprise me, brought home the ferocity of the past year's attack on civil justice in America: As of mid-May, the U.S. Senate had spent 15 days debating and voting on measures related to the war in Iraq--and more than 30 days seeking to restrict the rights of injured people to hold wrong-doers accountable.

It seems that limiting consumer rights has become the centerpiece of the Bush administration's domestic policy agenda, and lawmakers allied with powerful corporate interests are pressing it hard in a Senate where the old rules apparently no longer apply. Traditionally, bills are studied and refined in committee and then passed to the Senate floor. No...

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