Amaru Ca 💙 🐈‍⬛️  🌙
Biden administration's DOJ joined Trump and Obama admins in blocking lawsuit arguing a livable planet is a constitutional right.
Of course, the effort is also supported by Republicans bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry. Top donors include the oil giant #KochIndustries, the fossil fuel lobby #AmericanPetroleumInstitute, and oil & gas companies #ValeroEnergy & #ExxonMobil
#Climate #ClimateEmergency
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/joe-biden-justice-department-climate-crisis-constitutional-right-julianna-v-us?fbclid=IwAR1L8QDLgs03bWFVhRIg93qYPPOA_0OdSVy4Z5iNm1nPYS33bd_dVmsZ0Uw
Joe Biden’s DOJ Is Claiming “There Is No Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate”

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.

Aug 18, 2023 at 12:35pmWeb
Show threadAmaru Ca 💙 🐈‍⬛️  🌙Aug 18, 2023
More reason for #Biden to refuse declaring a #ClimateEmergency and continue to aggressively accelerate the construction of massive pipelines. Yeay!
What Biden meant by promising to take bold action on climate change, is to speed it up as best he can.
How does anyone not think that tptb really don't want many of us humans, or many other living things, to stick around this dying rock?
Show threadAmaru Ca 💙 🐈‍⬛️  🌙Aug 18, 2023
"Biden’s administration has also declared that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s scientific report about climate change “does not present sufficient cause” to halt a massive expansion of fossil fuel drilling.
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In the Biden administration’s June 22 court filing, Justice Department lawyers argued that because the child plaintiffs are not the only people who will be harmed by ecological breakdown, the suit should be thrown out."
#Climate #ClimateEmergency
Show threadAmaru Ca 💙 🐈‍⬛️  🌙Aug 18, 2023

This is the argument from Biden's DOJ:

“The state of the climate is a public and generalized issue, and so interests in the climate are unlike the particularized personal liberty or personal privacy interests of individuals the Supreme Court has previously recognized as being protected by fundamental rights,” the Justice Department wrote. "
#Climate #ClimateEmergency

Show threadHudsonAug 18, 2023
@Amaru_Ca And then they wonder why I won’t vote blue no matter who.
Show threadAmaru Ca 💙 🐈‍⬛️  🌙Aug 18, 2023

@HudsonHutton I'll keep voting blue to keep out total fascism, as I still think that matters. I'm not dead yet..
And at least they screw ya a bit slower.

We're all still getting kicked in the teeth tho. I'm under no delusions.

Show threadHudsonAug 18, 2023
@Amaru_Ca Well, what I do in the voting booth is a secret, but I’m no fool. What I won’t do is give the undemocratc DNC the satisfaction of thinking that I am. The Democratic platform is way too conservative and their refusal to become more progressive is what makes them lose races they should win, imo. That is why I left the party after 40 years.
Show threadAmaru Ca 💙 🐈‍⬛️  🌙Aug 18, 2023
@HudsonHutton I wasn't under the impression that the DNC really care what I think. Dems are at best, right of center, and the very few left of center are ostracised by the party. I agree they'd get more support if they were more representative, but you can't get much blood from a stone.
Still D registered just to have a say on the primary crop, fwiw.