Comments on: “How the Plaintiffs Bar Bought the Senate” https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/02/how-the-plaintiffs-bar-bought-the-senate/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:44:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: | Worth Reading https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/02/how-the-plaintiffs-bar-bought-the-senate/comment-page-1/#comment-83376 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:44:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16008#comment-83376 […] Journal, James R. Copland of the Manhattan Institute offers an explanation, under the headline “How the Plaintiffs Bar Bought the Senate.” Money quote: The late Fred Baron, a prominent Texas asbestos lawyer, liked to boast about the trial […]

]]> By: Yogi https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/02/how-the-plaintiffs-bar-bought-the-senate/comment-page-1/#comment-83324 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:25:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16008#comment-83324 No, no, John, you don’t understand. “Money is speech” really means, “OUR money is speech.”

]]> By: John Bratt https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/02/how-the-plaintiffs-bar-bought-the-senate/comment-page-1/#comment-83322 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:30:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16008#comment-83322 Strange. I always thought that corporate interests and the various Chambers of Commerce also donated extremely large amounts of money to politicians.

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