[leadpenny]

Today there are increasing reports about how environmentalists are beginning to place their trust in global warming lawsuits against the auto industry, electric utilities and the like. Racial reparations litigation is beginning to absorb much of the energy that used to go into political agitation for civil rights. You see this occurring now in so many areas that William Greider, a leading left-wing journalist, has proposed in Rolling Stone – in the context of discussing Senator John Edwards of North Carolina – that trial lawyers have emerged as the natural leadership of the left in America today. He may be right.

[Jim Noble]

a more disturbing trend: In recent years, litigation has evolved into a kind of substitute for politics. Until quite recently, a group of Americans who saw the need for some sweeping new law would march in the streets, organize a letter-writing campaign to Congress or the state legislature, or try to replace congressmen or state legislators with candidates sympathetic to their cause. That was how politics was done. But today, politics is not necessary

The emergence of the Court as the final arbiter, and now as the originator, of social policy has happened because the grand experiment of 1788 is starting to fail.

[marktwain]

Litigation also came to be seen as a way to redistribute wealth from those who have it to those who need it. From this perspective, the more litigation there is, the more redistributive justice the courts can impose on society. And who can be against justice?

This debasement of the justice system is clearly just another front for the socialists in attempting to take over the country. One thing we can do is make activist judges decisions known in those states where they can be removed by the public. Judges would never have been able to degrade the justice system so much without the aid of the OldDominantLiberalMedia. The new media give us some leverage to fight back, but it will not be easy.

[Bluntpoint]

"But you can do it with a lawsuit and no one will lay a glove on you. "

Loser pays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[headsonpikes]

Lawyers are the commissars of American-style socialism.

When, oh when, will resistance start?

[freekitty]

Besides pure greed; they are condeming the American people to a life of slavery.