Yeah, mostly senate republicans want to limit trial lawyers, and strengthen large businesses. Trial lawyers serve as one of the ways that people in the US can i

Yeah, mostly senate republicans want to limit trial lawyers, and strengthen large businesses. Trial lawyers serve as one of the ways that people in the US can impose limits on companies, through class action suits and other ways of seeking remedy. Republicans see this as a backdoor to increase risk associated with suing companies that misbehave. Of course dealing with patent trolls is important, but watch for this to bleed over to other areas of the legal and regulatory system when it comes up. And the truth is that strengthening class action lawsuits and corporate accountability to consumers, shareholders, etc would be well in line with traditional free market thinking, and weakening them serves to distort the market. You want businesses that behave badly to be penalized, so that good behavior is rewarded by market forces.