Tort Reform

While the jackasses in Congress are chipping away at the First Amendment with their latest Incumbency Protection Legislation (I believe some of them call it "Campaign Finance Reform"), an area that very much needs reform, torts, is getting very little attention. But Ryan Sager notes that tort reform legislation is quietly making its way through the House. I'm much more pessimistic than Sager about the prospects of meaningful tort reform, for the simple reason that it's one type of reform the Dems do NOT want, and can easily block in the Senate. And this bill is not far-reaching, in any case.

That's unfortunate. But it's not nearly as sexy as efforts to restrict political speech, I suppose.

[Posted at 18:53 CST on 02/13/02] [Link]