The Court of History’s Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz are joined by Conservative former judge, John Michael Luttig, who declares his independence from Trump.

Judge J Michael Luttig writes:

On July 4, 1776, our fellow Americans declared their independence from the British empire and its ruling monarchy. Thus began the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain to secure America’s independence from the tyrannical rule of King George III. On that first Independence Day almost two hundred and fifty years ago, America freed itself forever from the bondage and oppression of tyrannical rule by monarchs and kings. There would never be another king in the United States of America.

Eleven years later, on September 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was signed by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia, and in 1789, thirteen years after the American Colonists declared their independence from the British empire, the Constitution became the charter of government of the United States and the guarantor of our rights, liberties, and freedoms. The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Great Charter, became part of the Constitution in 1791.

Today, the United States of America is the beacon of freedom to the world and the Constitution of the United States the envy of the world.

The genius of the American experiment in self-governance is that “We the People,” not the government, possess all power and we govern ourselves by representational democracy. We entrust our power to our government to exercise on our behalf in the interests of our nation. To ensure that our government faithfully exercises the power we entrust it with, we the American people ordained and established government by law, instead of by kings. [Continue reading…]