George W. Bush Quotes
We've got to put a restraining order on our legal system. We're suing ourselves silly.
George W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (Republican, TX), Campaign Speech, September 12, 1992
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The Judge’s reference was to the Justice Department behavior at the trial of a group of radicals in Boston.
His concept of “misbehaving” is not corruption or waste and inefficiency. He is referring to legal opinions which Bork believes are at variance with his and other ultra conservatives view of what the law ought to be. They see the courts as inappropriately activist especially when their opinions are at variance with the traditional cultural norms and values of the society, except of course when it agrees with one of the conservative doctrines.
Senator Trent Lott had been a strong supporter of making it harder for consumers to sue companies, and making it harder to win even if they sued. Lott and other conservatives thought up the name of “tort reform” for their effort. However when Hurricane Katrina struck, many people lost their homes and when they went to collect from their insurance companies, most would not pay on the grounds that insurance covered wind damage and not flood damage. So if the storm blew the roof and walls down and then the storm surge flooded, it was hard to prove that the initial damage was from the wind storm and not the subsequent flood. Lott lost his expensive home and he himself had trouble collecting, and all of a sudden lawsuits were not so frivolous any longer.
See Ulysses S. Grant for a similar American view that very year.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
