we have the iqbal question. the supreme court, as part of its attempt to shut the door on litigants, essentially changed the law on pleadings, and greatly upped the bar. i introduced a bill to try to bring back the status quo. senator specter and senator delay introduced a similar bill in the senate. i do not know if we can bring that to a vote this year. in an election year, there is a lot of nervousness in the democratic caucus against voting on anything they do not have to vote on where interest might be on the other side. hopefully that will dissolve after the election, but we do not know. >> iqbal is another example of what we were talking about pure the court changed the pleading standard -- talking about. the court changed the pleading standard. that was not part of the issue. it could have been -- the court could have reversed, had it cared to, and very narrow grounds -- on gary miller grounds the immunity claim -- on very narrow grounds, the immunity claim. >> the citizens united is a perfect example of

we have t iqbal question. the supreme court, as part of its attempt to shut the door on litigants, essentially changed the law on pleadings, and greatly upped the bar. i introduced a bill to try to bring back the status quo. senator specter and senator delay introduced a similar bill in the senate. i do not know if we can bring that to a vote this year. in an election year, there is a lot of nervousness in the democratic caucus against voting on anything they do not have to vote on where interest might be on the other side. hopefully that will dislve after the election, but we do not know. >> iqbal is another example of what we were talking about pure the court changed the pleading standard -- talking about. the court changed the pleading standard. that was not part of the issue. it could have been -- the court could have reversed, had it cared to, and very narrow grounds -- on gary miller grounds the immunity claim -- on very narrow grounds, the immunity claim. >> the citizens united is a perfect example of w