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.
  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    In the Biden administration’s June 22 court filing, Justice Department lawyers argued that because the child plaintiffs are not the only people who will be harmed by ecological breakdown, the suit should be thrown out.

    “The state of the climate is a public and generalized issue, and so interests in the climate are unlike the particularized personal liberty or personal privacy interests of individuals the Supreme Court has previously recognized as being protected by fundamental rights,” the Justice Department wrote.

    biden You see, this is going to kill everyone so your individual concerns about being killed are invalid

    joker-amerikkklap

    • ped_xing [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      “They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.

      "No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.

      "Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.

      "They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."

      "And what difference does that make?”

      ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22