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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.
By that logic, they cannot guarantee the freedom of speech either though. They can try very hard, and do their best to make amends for when it’s breached, but many people have been silenced illegally by the US government. They can try, but they cannot promise this fact.
I don’t see why one couldn’t apply the same to climate.
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.
They are supposed to, but it happens. There is a reason we have appeals courts stranger.
the point of those courts is to decide what is or is not free speech.
Go read original post, this is literally what I am saying.
you’re just making conjecture about how the US denies people free speech.
I’m citing it happens, something you yourself have agreed with.
i never agreed that they jail people for exercising free speech. that’s not how this works.
Are you claiming no appeals court had ever ruled someone was exercising free speech after a lower court jailed them? Lol