Alcee Hastings: “While H.R. 10 is called the Common Sense Legal Reform Act, the more accurate title would be the Citizens' Rights…”

“While H.R. 10 is called the Common Sense Legal Reform Act, the more accurate title would be the Citizens' Rights Reduction Act. For more than 200 years, the citizens of the United States have possessed the right by their own States to hold wrongdoers accountable. Under H.R. 10, such rights would be taken away from the citizens of the States. With an apparent Congress-knows-best attitude, the proponents of this bill want to take away the rights of ordinary Americans to hold wrongdoers accountable and to seek fair and just compensation when they are wronged. This bill is wrong.”