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Joe Biden’s DOJ Is Claiming “There Is No Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate” (jacobin.com)

submitted 1 year ago by JoeCoT@kbin.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] andysteakfries@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're right though. There is nothing in the US constitution that guarantees the right to a healthy environment.

Cool that it isn't stopping them from putting a lot of climate action in motion.

What a dumb article.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not only is there nothing in the constitution to prevent them from adding to it, the forefathers urged us to do so, and created systems for exactly that reason. The forefathers weren't dummies, they were smart guys. That's why they created something that is supposed to be a living document.

[–] andysteakfries@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

We should do that! It's a great idea to add to and modify the document that shapes our rights.

I can think of three new amendments I'd want right away. But I can't sue the government on the basis of laws that don't exist.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I think the compromises they struck have put a lot of that wishful thinking out of reach.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

They are also dead and thus very easy to speak in name of.

Just stop building politics around dead or nearly dead people. There are living ones to take care of.

[+] rambaroo@lemmy.world -12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That filing came as President Joe Biden has refused repeated calls to declare a climate emergency, and as his administration backed a court case designed to accelerate the construction of a massive fossil gas pipeline, despite scientists’ climate warnings. Biden’s administration has also declared that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s scientific report about climate change “does not present sufficient cause” to halt a massive expansion of fossil fuel drilling.

Always fun to see liberals lie by omission. Look at all that "action". It surely is just a coincidence that the Biden admin keeps aggressively fighting against climate change lawsuits in court.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 year ago

"Always fun to see liberals lie by omission."

Always fun to see Lemmy comment sections get filled with more of this toxic crap.

[–] andysteakfries@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's what defendants do!