McConnell this morning with another dishonest Senate floor speech in which he again pretended Democrats haven’t compromised, ignored the ongoing bipartisan negotiation, and said “over 6500 lawsuits have been filed” even though only 400 are the personal injury kind he wants to ban

McConnell refuses to accept a compromise on his 4 year lawsuit ban after Dems climbed down on state aid https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5fd2a850c5b68256b113afb7

Maybe the bipartisan deal will collapse. Maybe it will be bad. But McConnell is definitely working against it after having demanded compromise from others

Republicans hate trial lawyers and they're using the plague as a chance to screw 'em. The McConnell / Cornyn liability shield would disallow medical malpractice suits if a provider so much as says COVID affected their work in some way

It would preempt state law, require plaintiffs to prove how they got infected and itemize all contacts 2 weeks prior to infection -- before a trial could even start https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-stimulus-liability-mcconnell_n_5fcfab3bc5b63a15345519e5