Class-Action Legislation Fails in Senate

Senate Democrats effectively killed a measure on Wednesday that would push certain class-action lawsuits out of state courts and into the federal judiciary, handing President Bush and the Republican leadership a significant defeat. … President Bush has made changes in tort law a big feature of his agenda in Congress, and it is a staple of his speeches.

Bush and his supporters are usually anti-Federal, pro-States’-rights. Or is that just another deception? mjh