May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
In their zeal to adopt a federal malpractice reform bill to dictate procedures to state courts, many Republicans in Congress are doing precisely what they rightly accuse Democrats of doing: blithely disregarding the Constitution’s clear limits on federal power. Their proposals, once encapsulated in H.R. 5 and then slipped into the Senate Republican “jobs bill,”
READ MORE[T]his bill . . . is an attack on state courts and on the civil jury system itself.
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