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Sounds like the Sacklers forgot to buy some vacations for SC justices.
There's still time, the SC blocked it so they could consider the case, not because they actually have a problem with it.
They need to be held criminally accountable. Heads need to roll on this one.
Given the amount of time that the justices spend holidaying with billionaires what’s the bet that they side with their mates?
Just for a comparison:
Fatal opioid overdoses and opioid use disorder cost the United States $1.02 trillion in 2017. The most complete accounting to date of America’s opioid crisis was released by CDC in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Costs for spending on health care, opioid use disorder treatment, criminal justice, and lost work productivity, as well as estimates of cost for lost quality of life and lives lost were computed in this study.
And they have the audacity to say how much these $6 billion will help and how dare to delay that help. That's less than a drop in the ocean.
I think that’s the thing that got me - the spokesperson’s response. “They are withholding help…” like yeah from the damage that your company (and the family who ran it) inflicted and is trying to escape any actual responsibility from.
I hope that they reverse the immunity. I don’t hold much hope from this court but I can light a candle for this one.
The fact that Purdue is saying “this is the best plan and everyone says so” tells me all I need to know. I just hope that when the case is heard, the outcome will better AND the Sack-of-shit-ler family is held accountable. You can’t claim ignorance on the opioid epidemic and run a business the way they did to directly profit from it.
The one thing that can be predicted with absolute certainty is that the Sackler family is going to be fine.
What the fuck? The Supreme Court made a decision that protects American citizens? Did they misunderstand the question?
Why is everyone so surprised? SCOTUS makes the "correct" decision quite often.
Independent Legislature Theory? Shot down.
VRA? Upheld.
Racially Biased Admission Criteria? Junked.
Indian Child Welfare Act? Upheld.
AA was not racially biased, it was necessary and it still is
"After California banned race-conscious admissions in 1996, the proportions of Black and Latino students at UCLA, one of the most elite school’s in the state’s system, fell drastically. By 2006, a decade later, only 96 Black students enrolled in a freshman class of nearly 5,000. They became known as the Infamous 96."
https://www.npr.org/live-updates/supreme-court-affirmative-action-harvard-unc
Defending that is seriously messed up. Everyone agrees that AA wasn't perfect, but it was the most effective way of diversifying student bodies. Racist Republicans got what they wanted, it's as simple as that.
Good. We're still stacking the bodies. Bet the Sacklers didn't sleep well last night.
The definition of uplifting news in this community is..... very broad.
I guess the Sacklers should've bought more gifts for the "Justices."
I'm sure it something sinister...like they blocked it to make way for a settlement for much, much less money, and also ... immunity.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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