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You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules (www.motherjones.com)

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A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

That whole "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" thing should apply here, I think, but even the founders didn't really believe in that bullshit, given the fact that Washington immediately turned the US military on a bunch of farmers when they objected to regressive taxes by the supposedly anti-tax founders after the war.