Since the start of the current Congress, Democratic lawmakers have pushed legislation that would override several recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Democrats want to allow state tort lawsuits over medical devices, restore a per se ban on vertical price-fixing, lower the standard for pleadings in civil suits, and allow suits against aiders and abettors of securities fraud, to name only a few proposals.
The bills have little in common except that they would all override the Supreme Court’s interpretations of law. Each bill is an expression of liberals’ frustration with the conservative direction of the court under Chief Justice John Roberts.
