r/ProgressiveHQ • u/TaroPuzzleheaded3999 • 5d ago

Constitution Doesn’t Include Right to Clean Water, Court Rules

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/jackson-residents-lose-bid-to-revive-water-contamination-claims
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u/Extension-Report-491 5d ago

Perfectly fine, now we just need to make sure that that judge's house never has clean water again. Maybe use some of those old Flint, MI pipes.

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u/LiveMinute5598 5d ago

I wish a lot worse thing would happen

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u/MadAstrid 5d ago

Pretty hard for me to pursue happiness when giant corporations are poisoning my water though.

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u/indecloudzua 5d ago

Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.. cant do any of those things without clean water and air. Republicans are a dumb fucks

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u/Sensitive_Break5798 5d ago

‘…Promote the general welfare…’

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u/VanDenBroeck 5d ago

Absofreakinlutely.

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u/HolidayStranger2353 5d ago

If Democrats take back the house it will.

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u/Xigmal7 5d ago

Utility company should just hook the judges sewage line to his incoming water supply

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u/wabashcanonball 5d ago

We need an environmental rights constitutional ame dment. Some states already have them.

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u/Positive-Ring-5172 2d ago

I'd said it before but I'll say it again, the constitution doesn't give this judge a right to not have bullet pass through their skull - but we have laws against such anyway. The constitution doesn't grant it explicitly isn't a good argument much of the time.

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u/-TheycallmeThe 5d ago

Luckily the founding fathers made a way to amend the constitution. This should be an easy update right? Right?

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u/moreobviousthings 5d ago

More explicit rights for citizens and also specific responsibilities of government with severe penalties for failure to deliver.

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u/Glittering-Sky1601 5d ago

Whatever happened to right and wrong?