| ▲ | ianjbutler an hour ago | |
Cool cool, I can see you've got a sharp eye for detail my friend but let's really get down to it. What exactly is it that you really want to defend here? Why do you want to defend it? And more to the point, do you like drinking clean water? Do you think people should have it or not? | ||
| ▲ | Amezarak 29 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
Speaking for GP, I want to have both a reasonable legal system and safe, clean drinking water. We can have both, and the former precludes the idea that plaintiffs and judges can simply invent new fundamental rights that require enormous sums of money and labor to implement without any democratically designed framework because they're a good idea. We have a route to do this, it's legislation and regulation. Note that in this particular case, while these things did not work perfectly - the Jackson water system had a lot of well-reported problems, and the lawsuit was filed in response to that - there's been hundreds of millions poured into remediating the problem. It is not simply being "ignored". People are not doing "nothing." The EPA, MSDH, and Jackson authorities have been working on the problem, not ignoring it because it's not a Constitutional right. In late 2025 the work resulted in the Jackson water supply once again meeting Safe Drinking Water Act requirements. Here is the latest comprehensive water quality report, on a reporting website that the DOJ, EPA, and courts forced JXN to create: https://jxnwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/JXNWater-202... | ||