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Republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever | Shouldn't Democrats... be saying something about this? (heated.world)

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Forever" is not possible, a future Congress can just repeal the law.

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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

But what if they add a "No Takesy Backsey" clause?

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago

They takesy backsey the clause first

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