For Release July 21, 2020
Contact: Joanne Doroshow, [email protected]
Center For Justice & Democracy Releases Trump’s Top 50
Anti-Civil Justice Scorecard
Stripping abused and neglected nursing home residents of their rights. Making it harder for defrauded students to hold fake for-profit colleges accountable. Preventing independent farmers from suing big agricultural companies. Attacking the legal rights of race, gender and LGBTQ discrimination survivors. Telling the U.S. Supreme Court that air crash victims should be blocked from suing plane manufacturers. Working to shield disease-ridden meatpacking plants from COVID-19 liability.
These are just a few examples found in the Center for Justice & Democracy (CJ&D)’s new Trump’s Top 50 Anti-Civil Justice Scorecard, released today. This report is a compilation of the top 50 laws, policies, reports, statements and court briefs from the current Administration over the last four years that represent the most direct attacks on the rights of sick, injured and cheated Americans to use the courts. The report also contrasts the President’s hypocrisy when it comes to legal rights, describing some of the thousands of lawsuits filed by Trump and his companies over the years, such as a recent Trump Organization suit against the estate of a dead man for unpaid maintenance fees after he died in a Trump Tower fire.
The study comes as U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to force Congress to pass destructive legislation to immunize negligent corporations that endanger workers and consumers. Emily Gottlieb, CJ&D’s Deputy Director for Law and Policy, said, “Since President Trump so frequently runs to court to advocate for his own policy positions or personal advancement, blocking the courthouse doors may not seem like an obvious priority for this Administration. But in less than four years, the Trump Administration has quietly destroyed many legal rights of everyday Americans and rigged the civil courts against them.”
CJ&D’s Executive Director Joanne Doroshow said, “Over the last four years, any large special interest with money or clout has lined up before the Trump Administration, asking for some handout or loophole so they are never held responsible for what they do wrong. We are seeing this again with Mitch McConnell’s disgraceful COVID-19 proposal. Everyday Americans, who do not have the same access to this Administration, are the ones who are hurt by such policies. Most have no idea their rights have been taken away until they have been injured, sickened, cheated, discriminated against or otherwise harmed. By then, it’s often too late.”
The Center for Justice & Democracy is a non-profit consumer rights organization that educates the public about the importance of our civil justice system. More information, and the full report, can be found here.
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