J. Michael Luttig is a retired, Republican, judge of the United States Court of Appeals.
America's Free Press - by Judge J. Michael Luttig (Ret.)
July 22. 2025
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 now and 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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