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.

  • DMmeYourNudes
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    411 months 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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      011 months ago

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

      • DMmeYourNudes
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        111 months ago

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

          • DMmeYourNudes
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            111 months ago

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

              • DMmeYourNudes
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                111 months 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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                  011 months ago

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

                  • DMmeYourNudes
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                    111 months ago

                    you’re using the world jailed to mean arrested or charged, that’s now what we are talking about. anyone can be put in jail for no reason for 24 hours. that doesn’t mean much.