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Talk about good timing. John Edwards's promotion to the national Democratic ticket is raising the profile of legal reform just as he and his Senate colleagues are facing a showdown this week on reining in class-action lawsuits. This is a debate worth watching, not least because the Senate is so close to a bipartisan breakthrough. The GOP has been rolling this stone up Capitol Hill since 1998, and the House has passed it no fewer than three times. But it has always rolled back down in the Senate, where Democrats and trial lawyers need only 40 votes to filibuster any...