Link: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit/

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

On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, which alleged the city knowingly let residents drink lead-contaminated water.

The lawsuit, first filed in 2022, says the contamination violated Jacksonians’ constitutional right to bodily integrity. Donald Trump-appointed judge Kurt Engelhardt disagreed. “The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing,” Engelhardt said.

“Defendants’ actions allegedly deprived Plaintiffs of clean water and guileless information. These deprivations, while grievous, do not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right.”

Jesus F Christ.

I guess the silver lining here is that the working class might now finally see that the so-called "social contract" liberals have been championing for centuries was always just one gavel tap away from non-existence.

Now we're in the post-justice society I guess.

Yeah, that's a good way to put it. Post-accountability, post-consequences

USA is doing first-worlding wrong.

No, they're just being honest about us being in a never-had-any-justice-to-begin-with society.