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Abbot is full of shit, as always.
From his letter:
Biden has ignored Texas demand that he perform his constitutional duties…thosnrefusalbtonprotect the States has inflicted unprecedented harm on the People alll across the United States>
No proof of damage except the ‘I dont like brown people’ that’s typical of republicans. I don’t recall Texas saying shit when Trump abandoned his constitutional duties to promote the general welfare of the public and let large swaths of Americans die to covid, just because he didn’t want to hurt his election chances. Pretty sure that’s precedent, though Abbot claims Biden’s damage is unprecedented.
This whole document is to rattle supporters into a frenzy. Fuck Abbot.
I’m torn on this one. Obviously, the victims deserve to get payment and whatnot, but the other half of this is that the bankruptcy court agreement with the Sackler family would prevent them from future liability for similar cases. Supreme Court is saying the bankruptcy court didn’t have the power to grant that, which, if excluded, would open the Sacklers to future lawsuits. I’m all for that family getting sued into oblivion, but we can’t trust the Supreme Court to do what’s right either. We have to treat everything they do with suspicion. This comes on the heels of the ruling of ‘bribery is now basically legal’, so it makes me wonder how much the Sackler family is paying them.