Howard Berman: “I wonder if the majority ever steps back for a second and looks at the situation that they are in. They run around…”

“I wonder if the majority ever steps back for a second and looks at the situation that they are in. They run around asking the Committee on the Judiciary in the House to pass legislation stripping Federal courts of jurisdiction, including the U.S. Supreme Court of jurisdiction, to decide fundamental constitutional questions presented under the U.S. Constitution, and at the same time they run around asking the Committee on the Judiciary of the House and the House of Representatives to pass bills writing the venue laws for personal injury actions brought in State court. This is Federal intrusion in areas traditionally reserved for the States and an effort to reverse everything that Marbury v. Madison and all of its subsequent cases have said with respect to the Federal Judiciary's role in dealing with questions arising under the Constitution. My friend, the very able chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, says on the question of frivolous lawsuits, help is on the way. But the truth is, help is not on the way for those who are looking for it.”