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.”

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      14 hours ago

      I’m further left than you you dumb fuck, which you’d know if you had ever bothered to ask. But do continue proving how little you actually know or care to find out and how much you spend thinking you know better than others.

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        All we have to go on is your word, and so far, you’ve proven yourself utterly unreliable, but sure, keep throwing temper tantrums because no one believes your bullshit.

        “I’m so far left that all I do is shit on Democrats” means you might as well be a fucking Republican, ya fuckin potato.

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          No, everyone else got what to look for, it’s only you who is not capable of anything more than attacking me. I already told you to fuck off, I don’t care about you desire to live in a “everyone who doesn’t agree with me is my opposition” world. There’s nothing to discuss with someone who has such a narrow view of the world.