Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.
Thus is the Greek tragedy of our times that when the Nation needed the free press more than ever, so many among the free press have chosen to offer unto the President of the United States who has declared them “the enemy of the people”
a sacrifice of their precious constitutional right to freedom of the press. A burnt offering to the very person for whom the free press was given its freedom by the Constitution of the United States.
With every offering of sacrifice to the President, these confirm in the minds of millions upon millions of Americans that the free press is indeed the enemy of the people, as the President has declared them to be.
The tragic irony is that these upon whom this precious right has been conferred have surrendered their right to the President in attempt to secure power from him that they know their submission will secure for them,
when the only power they have and would ever have is secured to them not by the President, but by the Constitution of the United States.
Having surrendered themselves to the President to secure the power that comes from his blessing, they have forever forfeited the only actual power they possessed and would ever have possessed, which is secured to them by the Constitution of the United States.
Hereafter, the only “power” they will possess is not power at all. It is subservient “power.” And that is as ephemeral as the morning dew.
These who have surrendered their right of the free press have proven their allegiance to the President, but they have betrayed their allegiance to America.
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On this Election Day 2024, in a letter organized by the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy, 125 current and past presidents of the nation’s state, local, and national bar associations put lawyers on notice of their professional obligations
when filing challenges to today’s election. The bar presidents specifically remind the legal profession of the lawyers who filed lawsuits challenging the 2020 election who were disbarred or disciplined for filing challenges that were not based on fact and supported by law.
The bar presidents remind the nation’s 1.3 million lawyers that “the courtroom is not a theater for unsubstantiated claims.”
The former president is not a Republican or a conservative.
Especially after Donald Trump’s disgusting comments about Liz Cheney, and after the performance at his rally in Madison Square Garden, I expect that Americans -– especially the women of America
-- will elect Kamala Harris the President of the United States tomorrow.
By nominating Donald Trump as their standard bearer, the Republican Party created the perfect storm for the election of the first woman President of the United States.
“My alarm is rooted more in the kind of democracy we’ll have than whether we’ll have any kind of democracy at all. I’m perhaps more persuaded by a different, far less catchy slogan: the rule of law is on the ballot."
"If Trump wins and exempts himself and many thousands of his supporters from legal accountability, it’s more like America will have something like royal justice, where accountability exists for all but a ruthless ruling class."
"We know that Trump loves the aesthetics and personality of royalty and autocracy. . . . He has openly envied the perceived absolute loyalty and obedience that kings and dictators command. He has long sought their authority. Now he wants their freedom from accountability."
The Honorable Thomas B. Griffith of the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (ret.): “I yearn for the day when traditional conservatives argued that character counts in our political leaders,
and that the example leaders set is even more important than the policies they pursue.”
Quoting Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 as giving “voice to a perspective that political conservatives once valued highly, warning against the temptation to evaluate our success as a nation solely by economic measurements":
For me, and I would like to believe for all Americans, the essential — and dispositive — difference between the two candidates for the presidency comes down to this.
Vice President Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can be trusted to honor a president’s sacred obligations to America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law.
The Vice President yesterday, campaigning with Republicans in Pennsylvania:
“Let us together stand up for the rule of law. For our democratic ideal. And for the Constitution of the United States. And in 20 days, we have the power to chart a new way forward, one that is worthy of this magnificent country that we are all blessed to call home.”
In a memorable event Tuesday evening, the National Constitution Center awarded the Liberty Medal to America’s storyteller, Ken Burns.
In the conversation between Jeffrey Rosen and Ken Burns that followed the NCC President and CEO’s Award of the Liberty Medal to Ken, Ken told what has to be the greatest story of America from the Founding to the present day ever told.
I wish every American could have been there in the Constitution Center’s majestic Grand Hall Overlook to hear the American story, as told by the greatest storyteller of America’s story who has ever lived.