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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    1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

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

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              1 year ago

              I’m citing it happens, something you yourself have agreed with.

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                  1 year ago

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

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                    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.