John Cornyn: “I believe our civil justice system is badly broken insofar as it serves the interests of the few at the expense of the…”

“I believe our civil justice system is badly broken insofar as it serves the interests of the few at the expense of the many. What I mean by that is our system of resolving civil disputes, whether they be medical malpractice lawsuits, or automobile accident cases, or any other kind of ordinary bread-and-butter lawsuit you see decided in courthouses across this country, in which citizens volunteer to give up a substantial amount of their time, that this process takes too long and it is too expensive to serve the interests of justice. It discourages those who have meritorious claims from even bringing those claims because they don't want to endure the time or expense. It too often benefits the very few at the expense of the rest of the public. Particularly, the benefit is to a handful of lawyers.”