"We could never have anticipated the sheer volume of cases"
This is the very embodiment of corruption in the most evil kind of way.
Maryland lawmakers passed a measure Saturday to try to limit future liabilities from claims of sexual abuse at state and private institutions after thousands of people unexpectedly came forward with allegations of abuse, many of them in youth detention centers, putting potentially billions of dollars at stake for the state.
The wave of cases targeting the state’s juvenile justice system resulted after Maryland eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse claims two years ago with the Catholic Church abuse scandal in mind.
In 2023, Maryland passed the Child Victims Act that was signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore lifting the time limit on how long people could wait to sue over alleged child sexual abuse by institutions.
“The passage of time will not prevent survivors from seeking justice for sexual abuse they suffered as children. I am proud of the role our office played in defending this landmark statute,” Attorney General Anthony Brown promised earlier this year
Now Maryland is rushing to gut the Child Victims Act because it’s not just the Catholic Church getting sued.
How long did it take Maryland Dems to rush the bill through shielding themselves? Two days.
The rapid-fire passage of House Bill 1378 — it got out of the House, through the Senate, back to the House and to the governor’s desk in just two days…
Two days. That’s how corrupt everyone involved in this.
C.T. Wilson, who introduced the Child Victims Act bill, then introduced a bill gutting the bill because the bill was getting too high.
The measure, which now goes to Gov. Wes Moore, reduces caps on settlements from $890,000 to $400,000 for cases filed after May 31 for state institutions and from $1.5 million to $700,000 for private institutions.
Note that the cap for government institutions is $400,000, but at $700,000 for private ones. Why is that?
A number of Democrats who voted for the bill in committee said it was a tough decision, but expressed concerns about the potential costs to the state.
Del. David Moon (D-Montgomery) said the state “does not have the option of bankruptcy to run from our obligations the way our private counterparts do.” Moon voted to move the bill out of committee “with great regret … and apologies to the victims.”
If Maryland is expecting to go bankrupt over all those lawsuits, that either raises questions about the level of abuse by the state… or the credibility of the lawsuits.
The State should not be above the law. And that’s what Maryland Democrats are doing here.
Maryland state Sen. Will Smith, who chairs the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, said it has been estimated that Maryland is facing a potential liability between $3 billion and $4 billion.
Smith, a Democrat, noted that lawmakers approved the 2023 Child Victims Act in response “to a long fight to have justice for victims of child sex abuse, where our prior framework barred some of those claims if you were above the age of 38.”
“But what we could never have anticipated was just the sheer volume of cases that ensued,” Smith said.
We would never have done this if we knew just how badly we were going to get sued.
“This is the most knowingly unconstitutional piece of legislation this legislative body has ever passed,” said Corey Stern, an attorney representing child sexual abuse survivors, in a text after Saturday’s full Senate vote. “The members who voted for it should be ashamed of themselves. The leadership that insisted they do should be voted out of office.”
If they were capable of shame, none of this would have happened in the first place.
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I guess we are just collateral damage. Stockmarket plunging like it never did before, commenters tearing their hair out. Few million federal workers entering the unemployment lines. On the micro economy scale, I hired a high school girl to do the lawn this Summer. A regular little capitalist, but nice. Mrs. tears up the newspaper every morning, goes into a Trump funk and has to take a long walk in the very cold. What would the Founding Fathers think? You're right, people like that in business - took one one head to head at the Twin City Ammo Plant in St. Paul, MN back in the mid 60's. Two armed guards escorted him from the plant in handcuffs.
What the heck ever happened to normal"
Trumponomics, if Geeez shows up in the soup line, you chefs should have her explain why she needs hot soup.
Last week, the Education Department, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. General Services Administration canceled $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University due to its "inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students," according to a DOE press release.
The university was notified earlier this month that the joint task force would complete a review of its more than $5 billion federal grant commitments as part of an investigation into potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
The action was linked to Trump's executive order combating anti-semitism, which also led to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's recent detainment of the leader of a pro-Hamas group associated with violent protests at Columbia University.
Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, "This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it."
"Many are not students, they are paid agitators," he continued. "We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here. We expect every one of America's Colleges and Universities to comply."
...but at least trans pool players can dominate the women's competition...
The lefties screwed the pooch.
"How long did it take Maryland Dems to rush the bill through shielding themselves? Two days".
Zero days. Because there was no bill passed by Democrats to "shield themselves". You clearly have a reading comprehension problem. It was employees at these institutions that have been accused, not Democratic lawmakers.
Or Daniel Greenfield has the reading comprehension problem. But I assume you're agreeing with him. Given that you posted his misrepresentation of what happened.
You're thinking the state should be bankrupted? It seems you're a big fan of bankrupting people. Given your support for d0n0ld's plan to bankrupt (potentially) millions of Americans via high inflation.
So if an "employee" of Walmart sexually abuses a customer, Walmart isn't sued, only the employee is? Who knew?
Why did Freddy Gray's family get all that money from Baltimore City then?
Baltimore reached a $6.4 million settlement with his family, and the city also faced an estimated $9 million in damages from the ensuing Baltimore riots
Nobody knew that. I didn't even say I agree with what is allegedly being done by Democrats. I only asked a question. You're a big fan of bankruptcy? Yes or no. I think you would support this if it was Republicans doing it in a Republican controlled state.
Given that you clearly would have supported the family of Freddy Gray getting zip.
btw, as per Copilot, "...the financial implications of the Child Victims Act could be significant. The law allows survivors of child sexual abuse to file lawsuits against institutions, including state entities, regardless of when the abuse occurred. This has led to concerns about the potential for billions of dollars in claims.
To manage this, Maryland has capped damages for claims against public entities at $890,000 per incident. While this helps limit liability, the sheer volume of cases could still strain the state’s budget".
That seems reasonable to me. It would be a BFD for the Maryland state government to go bankrupt. I think ALL residents of Maryland would care if the Maryland state government went bankrupt. And it would be very bad for all citizens. While the catholic church going bankrupt did much less harm to people. It won't affect most people at all.
Conclusion: Daniel Greenfeld is full of poop. He's only opposed and spinning because it's Democrats supporting this legislation.
Wealth redistribution. That's all you commie dems care about.
bankrupty is the method by which Capitalism rids itself of unprofitable entities. Sounds like MD state gov has become unprofitable. And we know how Plato views profit from his Hipparchus, as Hipparhus was an unprofitable leader for the Athenians.
Hipparchus didn't go bankrupt though. The Athenians killed kim.
Let’s be clear: these tariffs didn’t start a trade war. They responded to one.
For decades, our so-called allies and trading partners have been gleefully waging economic warfare on the United States, with the full permission — no, the encouragement — of prior administrations. China flooded our markets with cheap steel, violating trade norms and collapsing American mills. The European Union protected its own industries while slapping barriers on ours. Japan, Taiwan, and others enjoyed one-sided access to our consumers while shielding their own markets with layers of red tape and tariffs.
President Donald J. Trump did something no other modern president has had the spine to do. He declared “Liberation Day” and slapped sweeping tariffs on the very nations that have been gutting the American economy for decades. A 10 percent universal tariff across all imports. Targeted, punitive tariffs up to 34 percent on bad actors like China. And guess what? We should be furious—not at Trump—but at the spineless presidents before him who let things get this bad in the first place.
For Decades Our Economy, and Our Country Has Cancer.
Previous Remedies from the Experts in Power Were Sugar Pills and Sleep.
TRUMP Has Now Been Prescribed Chemo
CHEMO IS NOT PLEASANT. BUT IT IS VERY EFFECTIVE
WTF does that false assertion have to do with your post or my comment????
ex-MI5 Salvatore is right. America's trade policy has been in the making for decades. That cannot be undone in a single presidential administration. It most definitely won't be undone by an economically illiterate moron starting the dumbest trade war ever. Yet more proof that trumpers are complete idiots.
Mad King d0n0ld's "chemo" will facilitate a rapid transition to oligarchy by killing the "cancer cells" aka the middle class. I think that if/when that happens, Mad King d0n0ld will proclaim success.
It seems that ex-MI5 Salvatore voted for d0n0ld because he felt average Americans have way too much money. Money that "rightfully" belongs to the ultra-wealthy. trumpers willingly gave their money to d0n0ld (via campaign contributions and buying his crap). Now they want the rest of us to give our money to d0n0ld and his oligarch friends. It's communism in reverse.
Or reverse Robin Hood. trumpers think the government should rob from the poor to give to the rich.
Poor Dervish! He got bent and slapped in his bottom face! 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
^^Says the political court jester Dervish Sanders.^^
Mystere got bent and slapped in his bottom face by his husband's wang this morning. And then poked in his bottom face's eye repeatedly.
^You did what to your robot, Dervish?^
That's absolutely gross!
Mad King d0n0ld is Dervish's delusional figment of imagination and his imaginary bogeyman.
lol!
Congress increasingly took a less active role in levying tariffs directly, especially after the 16th Amendment’s ratification in 1913 led to a federal income tax that replaced tariffs as a main source of federal government revenue. In 1934, Congress passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, which gave President Franklin Roosevelt the ability to change tariffs rates by 50% and negotiate bilateral trade agreements without additional approval from Congress. Since then, the president has mostly controlled and executed tariffs policies as defined by Congress.
Don't like it? Pass a law, Derv.
Minus: lol! Congress increasingly took a less active role in levying tariffs directly...
Yahoo Finance: Elizabeth Warren is working alongside other lawmakers, including her Republican counterparts on Capitol Hill, to reinstate congressional authority on tariff policy. ... "...Congress can roll these tariffs back and steady this economy out", Warren said. "But it's going to take Republican support to make that happen. The laws are in place. We just need to vote to make that happen". link
As per the Constitution, Congress has the power to levee tariffs, not the president.
Mystere: Mad King d0n0ld is Dervish's delusional figment of imagination and his imaginary bogeyman.
If Donald John Trump is imaginary, why do you sing his praises constantly on your blog?
Mystere: You did what to your robot, Dervish?
Nothing. I don't have a robot. I never have. Sounds like you wish you were my sex robot. No thanks. That's a hard pass.
Pass one, don't just pretend. :)
You are obviously confident that the Republicans are completely cowed. Given that the ones who were not (namely Kinzinger and Cheney) were forced out. Only the biggest cowards and crazies in human history remain.
...waiting for the right time (Ides of March) to backstab
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