But this Congress won't even pass halfway measures. Cigarette companies have admitted they produce death sticks, yet Congress won't lift a finger to stub them out. Teenage boys continue to shoot up high schools, yet Congress won't pass stricter gun controls. Apparently that's exactly what's happened to the administration. Fed up with trying to move legislation, the White House is launching lawsuits to succeed where legislation failed.
Justice alleges that the tobacco companies conspired to create an illegal enterprise.
A few weeks ago, the administration announced another large lawsuit, this one against America's gun manufacturers. These novel legal theories give theadministration extraordinary discretion to decide who's misleading the public and whose products are defective. Worse, no judge will ever scrutinize these theories. The administration has no intention of seeing these lawsuits through to final verdicts. In announcing the lawsuit against the gunmakers, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo assured the press that the whole effort was just a bargaining ploy.