Expect the next stimulus bill to put trial lawyers before everyday people......(Quid Pro Quo)

washingtonexaminer ^ | 2/12/2021 | O.H. Skinner

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With the Democratic control in Washington, there appears no chance that the next pandemic relief bill will include one of the most high-profile items from previous negotiations: virus-related lawsuit limits for responsible businesses.

It looks as if businesses that simply did their best to stay open, scrape by, and serve consumers as safely as they could during the pandemic will have to keep waiting and hoping. And it is pretty easy to figure out why these businesses are being left out — commonsense lawsuit limits would run afoul of the nation’s trial lawyers, who are favored allies of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat who has significant control over the next relief bill...Trial lawyers as a group give millions to liberal political allies.

Schumer, in particular, has benefited from the “generosity” of the trial lawyers’ political donations. Senate Majority PAC, a Schumer-aligned super PAC, received at least $2 million from the main trial lawyer political arm, American Association for Justice PAC, during the last four-year election cycle. And then there are the millions upon millions that trial lawyers spent supporting Schumer’s hand-picked Senate candidates, which include money flowing out of a web of trial lawyer super PACs and political committees focused squarely on the Senate.

Remember, it is trial lawyers who are trying to cripple the nation’s energy companies through climate change litigation, using the courts to advance immigration policies favored by liberal advocacy groups, and sending massive privacy class action settlement awards to the American Civil Liberties Union and liberal universities instead of everyday victims whose privacy rights were violated

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Shakespearean.

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