State bar delays call for constitutional reform (Pennsylvania)

Philly.com ^ | October 20, 2009 | Tom Infield

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Fearing that negative public feelings toward lawyers could be let loose, the Pennsylvania Bar Association backed away yesterday from calling for creation of a citizens' commission to look into changes to the state constitution.

The best that a roomful of 350 lawyers could do with the hot-potato issue was to decide to pick another group of lawyers to look into constitutional proposals at a later date.

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The group's worry was that an eventual constitutional convention might take up issues the Bar Association has been fighting for decades, such as tort reform and caps on attorneys' fees.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Stories like this demonstrate precisely what is wrong with government, both at the federal and state levels.

[La Lydia]

You can’t make this stuff up. It sounds like a Saturday Night live opening.

[airborne]

Especially here in Pennsylvania.

Ed Rendell is a gangster.