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 clear drinking water was a human right in the US, then it would be covered by the Constitution as well.
If something was clearly, precisely defined in the constitution it would still be worthless if some group of rich cunts came to a consensus that it would be better for them if the courts were to interpret it differently.
The US legal system has a terminal case of corruption.
Pursuit of happiness seemsbto include proper hydration for most.
This chud only thinks rights exist if they’re written on piece paper by someone 250 years ago. 🫵😂
What a fucking loser.
Is that a pun? Is it so good that I almost missed it? Was it on purpose? I am impressed.
The Constitution is already covered by yellow water and brown streaks.
Long past overdue for a refresh.
These modern-day robber barons and self-appointed kings will ignore a “refreshed” Constitution (that eliminates all our remaining rights and anything left stopping them in the courts) just as easily as they ignore this one.
“Refresh” is a nice word for “scrap democracy and install a permanent oligarchy” because those who want to change this Constitution will stop at nothing less.
There’s a reason the Constitution requires what it does to be changed, and it’s actually very easy to amend the Constitution when you have bipartisan support for something: we’ve been doing it all along.
So instead of tossing out the whole thing, ask yourself why proposed amendments – including one that was just overturned this week by the House to take the power of numbering SCOTUS justices away from Congress so that we remain at 19th century numbers – are being blocked right and left. Hint: it’s because they are generally unilateral shit, and an attempt to change the balance of power toward the executive, like this one.
TL;DR: Don’t fuck with the Constitution until you’ve dealt with the overwhelming corruption and lawlessness that is currently making a joke of this one.