A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, which alleged the city knowingly let residents drink lead-contaminated water.
The lawsuit, first filed in 2022, says the contamination violated Jacksonians’ constitutional right to bodily integrity. Donald Trump-appointed judge Kurt Engelhardt disagreed. “The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing,” Engelhardt said.
“Defendants’ actions allegedly deprived Plaintiffs of clean water and guileless information. These deprivations, while grievous, do not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right.”
If only the US had integrated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into law. It’s only 78 years old. Guess they haven’t had time yet.
Article 25
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services,
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What exactly do Americans have the right to…?
Guns. We have the right to guns.
But only some times…
Only if you’re white
Spend money so the rich can get richer.
Nothing unless it’s in the constitution. Judge is technically correct.
We should probably change that.
Well, yes and no.
Technically, several rights not listed in the constitution are guaranteed to the States or the people by the 10th Amendment. Which, I guess by default makes it in the Constitution?
Nothing unless they are rich.
Actually, I guess that’s not true. They have the right to remain silent (unless they are rich).
Lightly cup Trump’s balls
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The right to claim that they have rights.
Elections have consequences, everyone who stayed home and allowed Trump to be elected to two terms has enabled this.
I honestly don’t know if the US will actually be able to recover from those 6 (and counting) years, as an Aussie it feels like we’re watching the equivalent of the Fall of Rome in real time.
That bastard has managed to isolate you from your allies, line his pockets with billions of dollars, nearly bankrupt your country, destroy your military credibility, pollute your water, air & food, roll back your rights, and so much more.
It will take at least a generation to undo this damage, and I don’t think there’s enough political will to do what would need to be done to arrest this decline.
You will likely fall into oligarchy, to become another Russia in my lifetime. Just another regional brute, living off the fear and intimidation you were able to impose on your glory years.
I think it depends on how you define “recover”. America will never be what it was.
“old” america is never coming back. it never was. and by ‘old’ i mean like cold war or obama era, not racist sexist 30’s/40’s/50’s america.
this ‘new’/currrent america might stick around for a bit, but it will be strained. it will get to a point where this new america fully breaks and ceases to exist (full civil war 2) and the country will be broken up. either into 2 new countries or breaking completely and all the states becoming their own country, which will invoke more war as states (and even other countries) fight each other for land and resources.
‘mostly’ world paece was amazing while it lasted. but billionairs didn’t make enough money
America will never be what it was.
What it was isn’t as “great” as the stories Americans tell themselves.
They need to build back better.
Yeah, current America was never great, domineering, but not great. USA 2.0 will be better for the world, and hopefully better for Americans too.
Unlike Nero, this mad tyrant can’t even play a fiddle with his rapey little hands, much less even carry a tune.
But, boy, is the civilization burning…
In some parts of the world, people are thinking about UBI.
In other parts of the world, having safe drinking water is put into question.
When some rights you should have aren’t given to you, you need to do something to make sure you take them.
Oh, it was a conservative deciding this. This tracks.
More lead poisoning drives more conservative votes!
Yeah lets wrap this US gov up at this point. No right to clean water and the truth lol.
You will drink sludge and accept our lies like the good little American sheep you are.
Then what is the point of governance?
In the USA? To protect and serve the rich.
to build roads and maintain the world’s strongest defensive military, of course. y’know, the things people need?
people don’t need safe drinking water, duh
Ofc not. This colony was founded by literal enslavers. It’s hard to enslave a comfortable population with their basic needs met. No water, no food, no shelter, no healthcare… Instead it’s “freeze peach” and corporate personhood.
Because fuck the common good, right?
That is some 3rd World shit right there. Hire a plumber to reroute that asswipe’s water supply.
they want flint to be repeated in every state.
It shouldn’t have been a “right to safe drinking water”, it’s an assumption of risk issue. The default setting in the US for a few generations is that the tap water is safe to drink. This reeeally smells like a malicious ruling.
Land of the Free motherfuckers!
It falls under the life part of consti rights, he’s obtuse.
