Good article from Melinda Henneberger

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Oct. 28 - President George W. Bush wants to make tort reform a top priority in a second term. Using the term “trial lawyer’’ as a pejorative, he talks a lot about the craziness of our overlitigated lives.

Which is funny, coming from a guy who litigated his way to the White House. But the president seems to have defined a frivolous lawsuit as any legal action filed by somebody else’s lawyers.

He certainly voiced no objection to the Republicans who have, according to The Washington Post, already filed more than 35,000 legal challenges to voters’ eligibility in Ohio alone. The GOP plans to send thousands of volunteers into polling places to personally challenge “voters they suspect are not eligible, particularly hundreds of thousands of the newly registered.’’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6353698/site/newsweek/

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1. frivilous lawsuit = any lawsuit by an individual against a corporation

or the government.

Basically, their idea is to remove a person's recourse, so that the government and corporations can sell you whatever load of bull they feel like, and there will be nothing you can do about it.

Welcome to the new 'Murika. :-(