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Judge Luttig: ‘No leadership' --‘Lemmings..who would walk the country off the cliff towards tyranny'
Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig joins Ali to discuss his powerful new piece, “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom— and of Tyranny,” a reflection on the Declaration of Independence and its 27 “self-evident truths” about freedom and tyranny that apply today more than ever. Luttig warns that “almost every single right, privilege, and liberty,” Americans have cherished for almost 250 years is now “under attack,” and that power has dangerously “drifted away from the people to the government” itself. “The main problem and the main issue for America today is that we have no leader and we have no leadership,” he warns. “Our elected politicians…have followed like lemmings those who would walk this country off a cliff toward tyranny.
