In the same week large swaths of the US were under extreme heat warnings, Joe Biden’s Justice Department filed its most recent motion to dismiss a landmark climate case by arguing that nothing in the Constitution guarantees the right to a secure climate.

  • @UFO64@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    By that logic, they cannot guarantee the freedom of speech either though. They can try very hard, and do their best to make amends for when it’s breached, but many people have been silenced illegally by the US government. They can try, but they cannot promise this fact.

    I don’t see why one couldn’t apply the same to climate.

    • DMmeYourNudes
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      41 year ago

      The US government will not jail you for exercising free speech. That’s what free speech is. The government can not censor free speech, and they do not. To protect your right to free speech, all the government needs to do is nothing.

      • @UFO64@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        They are supposed to, but it happens. There is a reason we have appeals courts stranger.

        • DMmeYourNudes
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          11 year ago

          the point of those courts is to decide what is or is not free speech.

            • DMmeYourNudes
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              11 year ago

              you’re just making conjecture about how the US denies people free speech.

                • DMmeYourNudes
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                  11 year ago

                  i never agreed that they jail people for exercising free speech. that’s not how this works.

                  • @UFO64@lemmy.world
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                    01 year ago

                    Are you claiming no appeals court had ever ruled someone was exercising free speech after a lower court jailed them? Lol