Being a judge in the US is a political job. There's not even a universal requirement that one has to be a lawyer. However, "political" how liberals are using i

Being a judge in the US is a political job. There's not even a universal requirement that one has to be a lawyer. However, "political" how liberals are using it currently is a euphemism for "current disputes between the Democrat and Republican party management." If you don't accept that framing, or assume that these people are wind-up toys set into motion by the Presidents that appointed them, things can be very political without this split that the punditocracy project onto the court. Whether bankruptcy courts can dictate a settlement for something this wide-reaching, and simply indemnify someone against future lawsuits is a very political question. What if the courts had settled with the Sacklers for $10, and indemnified them against future suits? Why are the bankruptcy courts allowed to improvise restrictions against what other courts and other victims are allowed to do? It's redolent of one of the most disturbing elements of Epstein's first conviction, during which they immunized unidentified, unindicted co-conspirators. In order to avail yourself of this immunity, you had to be guilty of child trafficking with Epstein. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been a co-conspirator. Can a court name a sacrifice to suffer for others? I'm not concerned in this case that some of the victims' lawyers were clamoring for it. Those lawyers could very well be paid for by people with another agenda. Why should the Sacklers be left with anything? The main guilty parties in their family are dead - now we're arguing with the people who are inheriting the proceeds of the crime. Why argue? Just seize it all; the damage far outstrips their worth, and their worth isn't even from their own labor, it's inherited. Meanwhile, the descendants of slaves are mocked over 400 years of stolen wealth. And we can't even take the proceeds of the most horrific crimes from people who don't even work for a living, and will likely be left wealthy if every dime of that inheritance is taken away.