Legal Analysts Shocked to See MAGA Supreme Court Justices Agree With Biden on Opioids

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on the bankruptcy settlement between the United States and opioid maker Perdue Pharma, the creator of the painkiller OxyCotin that helped spark an addiction crisis national scale.

After digesting the decision, legal analysts explained that even if the Court vacated the $6 billion settlement, that does not absolve Perdue of liability.

“This case focused on whether the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals properly approved a multibillion-dollar bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the maker of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin, that would free members of the Sackler family , owner of the company but “I have not declared bankruptcy, nor any future liability for claims against them,” MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang said on X.

“Essentially, the bankruptcy deal was a crap deal,” The Nation’s Elie Mystal posted on X. “But it was also the best deal available for the Sackler family victims.”

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UGA Law School professor Elizabeth Chamblee Burch wrote on advanced by her and other legal experts.

“What will happen next?” Sacklers will likely try to negotiate consensual releases in bankruptcy or return to (multidistrict litigation),” she explained.

National security lawyer Bradley Moss called the ruling “good” and added that the courts should not “let the Sackler family off the hook.”

Vox reporter Andew Prokop pointed out these strange bedfellows: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson siding with conservatives and Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts joining liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

“Kav’s dissent is extremely passionate and claims that the decision will cause “tremendous suffering” to “opioid victims,” Prokop wrote.

Sarah Reese Jones pointed out that the Court agreed with President Joe Biden’s administration, which also rejected the settlement saying people deserved the right to sue the company.

“The Sackler family deserves a life of poverty after what they did,” wrote American Independent political reporter Emily C. Singer.

“Best decision SCOTUS has made in a long time. Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family took advantage of American families. They knew how dangerous OxyContin was, and a generation of people addicted to opioids, many of whom turned to illicit drugs when Oxy was not available, many more died,” said Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross.

NYU professor Eric Klinenberg joked that the Sackler family made a huge mistake “by not providing Thomas and Alito with private jets or vacation homes.”