President Donald Trump has doubled down on his support for tort reform, casting himself as a champion against America’s “lawsuit culture.” Bolstered by longstanding Republican support, his super PAC has been running ads echoing this position.

Trump’s Justice Department also rightfully recognizes that runaway litigation stifles businesses and costs jobs, while putting large sums in the pockets of trial lawyers, one of the Democratic Party’s most reliable sources of fundraising.

But an unexpected political fault line has emerged within his own administration with a longtime friend of the trial bar nestled into the highest ranks of the Trump administration. He is Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a veteran trial lawyer who has supported liberal Democrats for decades

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