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Sunday, September 06, 2026

A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump told residents of Jackson, Mississippi on Friday they have no right to water untainted by lead, according to a new report. Kurt Engelhardt, a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge, affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against their city, accused of knowingly allowing residents drink the contaminated water for six months in 2015, Mother Jones reported Saturday.

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"Defendants' actions allegedly deprived Plaintiffs of clean water and guileless information," he said. "These deprivations, while grievous, do not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right."

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One more reason why Red States tend to be hell holes.

You'll drink your lead and like it.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-06 11:58 AM | Reply

He's reading the modern, "of, by, and for the Corporation" version.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-06 01:55 PM | Reply

A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump told residents of Jackson, Mississippi on Friday they have no right to water untainted by lead

Flint Water Jeff approves.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-09-06 05:39 PM | Reply

According to Census.gov 82.0% of residents in Jackson, Mississippi are black or African American.

I wonder if that federal judge is racially biased. Ya' think?

#4 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-09-06 06:22 PM | Reply

A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump told residents of Jackson, Mississippi on Friday they have no right to water

Black American residents make up approximately 82% of the total population in the city of Jackson, Mississippi.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-09-06 06:23 PM | Reply

Lead in drinking water is great! It makes people dumber so they flunk out of school faster, and then join the workforce, shackled to low wage jobs for the rest of their lives. It does come with an increase in violent crime but our prisons are here for them.
-little known part of Project 2025'

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2026-09-06 06:37 PM | Reply

I don't suppose this case will ever make it to the U.S. Supremes.

THAT would be interesting.

The local yokel doesn't seem to think that "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" covers safe, uncontaminated drinking water.

#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-09-06 06:50 PM | Reply

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

Friedrich von Schiller

#8 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-09-06 09:17 PM | Reply

Give the people a sense that they have rights, and who knows where that would lead, maybe to the people asking the primary question.
And that question would be, if citizens, we own this entire country, the way people who apple stock own apple, so when do we get our dividend, the profits? That isn't communism or socialism, it is the purest of capitalisms demands. Don't cut down another of my trees, or root for another barrel of oil, on my land without a plan to pay me for my property.

#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-09-07 06:23 AM | Reply

glasses*on: Blacks are unable to maintain their local infrastructure

#10 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-09-07 06:59 AM | Reply

glasses*on: Blacks are unable to maintain their local infrastructure

#10 | Posted by john_savage2

You are one nasty, racist SOB. A sincerely hideous bigot of a man. But I'm glad to interact with you because you remind me why it is that things go so freaking bad.

Get a DNA test. I'll wager that up until about 1965 you were legally a Black man.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-07 10:19 AM | Reply

Truth is, sometimes, painful to face.

#12 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-09-07 12:44 PM | Reply

I'd like to double down please:
The greatest danger to a black man is another black man, not some white devil.
Read'em and weep.

#13 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-09-07 12:48 PM | Reply

South Africa's post-apartheid infrastructure crisis is defined by a sharp decline in state capacity, severe maintenance backlogs, and the persistence of apartheid-era spatial segregation

While the post-1994 democratic government dramatically expanded basic connections"raising electricity access from under 30% to over 80"95%"infrastructure spending collapsed from 7% of GDP in the mid-1990s to roughly 3% by the mid-2000s. This underinvestment, paired with systemic mismanagement and corruption, turned once world-class state networks into major bottlenecks for the economy

Power Generation (Eskom): The state electricity utility suffered from a total collapse in proactive maintenance and a failure to build new capacity. This resulted in years of crippling, scheduled blackouts (load-shedding) that choked business growth.

Municipal Water and Sanitation: Many municipalities face failing water treatment works, widespread pipe leaks, and raw sewage spills, driven by poor local governance and a massive backlog in asset maintenance.

#14 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-09-07 01:17 PM | Reply

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