Federal court rules Americans have no constitutional right to clean water — then tells lead-poisoned residents to sue their city

The U.S. constitution offers the right to bodily integrity, but that does not include access to clean drinking water, a federal court just ruled in a divisive Mississippi case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought forward by Jackson, Mississippi, residents alleging that city officials knowingly allowed people to drink lead-poisoned water.