Kemp’s Tort Reform Crusade: A Threat to Rights or a Political Play?

Bureau­cra­cy plagues all gov­ern­ment lev­els, with calls for DOGE-style reforms inten­si­fy­ing. Geor­gia Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp is fierce­ly push­ing SB68, a rewrite of state lit­i­ga­tion rules aimed at low­er­ing insur­ance costs, threat­en­ing to back pri­ma­ry chal­lengers against GOP law­mak­ers who weak­en it and hint­ing at a spe­cial ses­sion if it fails—tactics he avoid­ed for elec­tion reviews or Fani Willis due to cost con­cerns. Crit­ics, includ­ing con­sti­tu­tion­al lawyer Cather­ine Bernard, warn the hard-to-inter­pret bill erodes 7th Amend­ment jury tri­al rights, ques­tion­ing its urgency giv­en its absence from Kemp’s re-elec­tion focus two years ago and Georgia’s low law­suit rank­ing. A robust PR cam­paign touts ben­e­fits, con­trast­ing with qui­eter past leg­is­la­tion, rais­ing sus­pi­cions about Kemp’s motives and law­mak­ers’ auton­o­my.

• Bureau­cra­cy has hap­pened on every lev­el of gov­ern­ment. DOGE needs to hap­pen at every lev­el. 
• Bri­an Kemp is stak­ing his leg­isla­tive agen­da on pass­ing a rewrite of GA lit­i­ga­tion rules. The gov­er­nor is wor­ried enough about a revolt from fel­low repub­li­cans that he took the extra­or­di­nary step of threat­en­ing to back pri­ma­ry chal­lengers to any GOP law­mak­ers who vote for an amend­ment that waters down the over­haul. This is sig­na­ture leg­is­la­tion. Why is this so impor­tant? Why was­n’t it so impor­tant 2 years ago when he was going for re-elec­tion. It is being said that the leg­is­la­tion is hard to inter­pret and that judges will have dif­fi­cul­ty. Now it is being report­ed to low­er insur­ance costs. Your law­mak­ers are not allowed to rep­re­sent their dis­tricts. The law­mak­ers are told what they are going to sup­port and what Kemp will sign. 
• Cather­ine Bernard is a con­sti­tu­tion­al lawyer say­ing that SB68 is a bad bill that con­tin­ues the trend of chop­ping away at the core 7th amend­ment jury tri­al rights. 
• There has been a huge PR cam­paign push­ing the bill and all its promis­es of low­er­ing insur­ance rates. There have been bills passed that have had zero PR cam­paigns. GA ranks the bot­tom of the list for lia­bil­i­ty law­suits. 
• Kemp has threat­ened to call a spe­cial ses­sion if law­mak­ers don’t pass the leg­is­la­tion. When he wouldn’t call a spe­cial ses­sion to review Fani Willis and to review the elec­tion. They would give the excuse of what it would cost. Now he will call every­one in for lob­by­ists. 
• Why all of a sud­den is Kemp speak­ing out about the Trump admin­is­tra­tion in a pos­i­tive way and prais­ing the immi­gra­tion. There is video that Kemp has not done any­thing regard­ing immi­gra­tion as report­ed by Tom Homan years ago. 
• US Rep Rich McCormick had a town hall. It was a set up over the DOGE fir­ing of CDC. lib­er­als packed the meet­ing on pur­pose. It was all staged for the indi­ca­tor for democ­rats in 2026.