Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/51603575
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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I’m in Australia, please forgive my ignorance, Adam, Eve and their food aside, doesn’t the Constitution build on top of the Declaration of Independence and isn’t the pursuit of happiness etc. an inalienable right?
Next you’re going to tell me that what forms the basis of the USA government isn’t legally binding.
Actually no. I’ll give an example like a family. Let’s say you have a mother, a father, a brother and a sister. The kids don’t like that the parents are asking the kids to contribute to the household and the kids decide to move out(in this example it’s like the kids crashed the car and the parents needed to buy a new car but they were struggling to pay the mortgage with the new car payment forced on them by the kids crashing the old car) . The declaration of independence is the letter the kids leave for their parents informing them the kids are moving out. Technically it doesn’t matter, it was just an angry letter.
The kids then realize there should be certain rules regarding how new place is run, for example no kid should be able to tell another what they are allowed to say, the constitution. They also recognize certain things should not be allowed by any of the kids for example no smoking in the apartment, that’s federal law. Each kid disagree on certain things, maybe the sister says no eating in my bedroom, the brother says no bright light in my bedroom after 10pm. These rules only apply to their bedrooms though, that’s state law.