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.”
How do spineless, soulless morons become judges? There seems to be a lot of them.
Money money money. This is when I can say America is finally in the medieval era. Healthcare for the kings/lords, diseases in everything including food and even the water can be poison. Just like the old days.
Nah, for judges I really think money is just a good extra. It’s about feeling powerful, the kinds of power people want are different so some become cops, some politicians, some influencers, and some judges etc. The importance of the money aspect in all those varies as much between each kind and each person. I think many begin with mostly money in mind but the need for power over others quickly takes over.
Not to defend a trump judge, but it sounds like the ruling is simply that the constitution doesn’t guarantee the particular right in question. Which is true. There’s nothing in the constitution about this.
It’s a matter of environmental law, sanitation, public health, etc. I’m sure there are laws that this situation violated, but the fact is that the laws it broke weren’t in the constitution. So the plaintiff’s lawyer kinda messed up by making this case about some made-up constitutional right and not the specific laws that are on the books at the state or federal level.
The case shouldn’t be over. They just need to focus on laws that actually exist instead of some AI hallucinations about the constitution.
This is similar to my take on roe v wade. The supreme Court looked at the constitution and said “oh, there’s abortion, right there”. It was inevitable it would get overturned because it’s not actually in the constitution anywhere. The Dems had 50 years to pass an actual federal law and failed.
Yep. Now, it should be mentioned that clean drinking water SHOULD be a constitutional right, but that’s a matter for an amendment, not for a judge to unilaterally decide.
Of course. But yeah that’s not the judge’s purview
They get appointed.
By other spineless, soulless morons.
Given there’s no apparent resistance I lack evidence of an opposing group.
Because the political system intrinsically defaults to a two party system making it very easy to entrench the two parties and create controlled opposition, which then works to squash actual resistance.
You can see it in action right now within the democratic party where a certain group of people would rather see them lose elections than support candidates who are looking to oppose the status quo.
Only an asshole could look at this situation and come up with a post blaming Democrats.
I would suggest you do better but let’s face it, you can’t and likely never will.
I’m sorry, is the entire American political system “Democrats”? I said the entire system is rotten. I only used democrats as an example because that’s literally the most recent example. I could’ve used the tea party as a republican example but why use a 15 year old example when there’s an example happening right now?
Perhaps instead of telling me to do better you should be telling that to the establishment democrats who are not just against the DSA but also Abdul El-Sayed, who isn’t even a socialist. Perhaps the one who should be doing better is you?
OK now you’re just making shit up.
The first thing that happened after Abdul won his primary was the entire fucking establishment endorsed him.
So you’re either a liar or completely misinformed. Let us know which, thanks.
Not that it matters because you’ll just fucking lie about that answer, too.
So there’s no push to slander Piker and use his association with El-Sayed as a way to sabotage his campaign by trying to alienate the Jewish voters or the young voters who Piker rallied?
I guess I’m just making up the scrutiny El-Sayed receives for being associated with one of the biggest leftist voices in America.