This Must We Do If America Is To Long Endure

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This is a speech that Judge J. Michael Luttig gave today at the Election Integrity Summit of the Cleveland Municipal Bar Association and the Task Force for American Democracy in Cleveland, Ohio.

Judge Luttig is among 300 current and former Federal and State Judges that are filing amicus briefs in cases across this country to protect voting rights and other democratic principals. Most recently Judge Luttig filed along with 34 other former federal judges a brief to Judge Williams in the Federal Court in Miami letting her know that she had been used and was a victim of a fraud upon the court in the slush fund and IRS settlement case.

He is deeply concerned about the dangers that our democracy faces and is calling for all of us to stand up and fight.

This Must We Do If America Is To Long Endure
Judge J. Michael Luttig
Jun 22, 2026

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But as we all know, today America is not the same beacon of freedom or the same envy of the world that it has been for a quarter of a millennium.

Today, two hundred and fifty years later, we are again engaged in a great battle “testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”

Prophetically, these times in which we live on the 250th Anniversary of this nation’s Founding are -- once again – the times that try men’s souls.

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As we struggle to decide what we ourselves want for America and what we want our America to be – and not to be – the entire world is anxiously awaiting our answer, more anxiously awaiting our answer today than it awaited our answer a quarter of a millennium ago.

Two hundred and fifty years into the greatest experiment in self-government in human history, the time of America’s testing has finally come.

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In this 250th Anniversary year, America’s institutions of government and governance and its institutions of democracy and of law are under vicious, unsustainable, and unendurable attack – from within.

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We Americans must summon the courage that has eluded us in our all-consuming fear over the past decade of years. We must summon from deep within the courage that was once our Founders’ courage when, “with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, they mutually pledged to each other their Lives, their Fortunes and their sacred Honor” to secure their -- and our -- liberty and freedom.

With the united support of a hopeful world, we Americans must overcome our fear. We must find our voices again.

We must finally – finally – rise to our feet, raise our voices, and speak out against what we are witnessing in America today.

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https://substack.com/home/post/p-203165200

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1. Bookmarking

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2. KICK

Pin it.

[dweller]

3. Judge Luttig has a substack

I’m impressed .
He’s come a long way since his haltingly poignant Jan6 testimony
I remember many here didn’t appreciate his testimony
I did
I even wrote this afterwards , and posted it here
Reposting for the fud of it


Luttig’s lesson

I’ve been
Considering that
Perhaps
We
As a species
Have
Become accustomed
To
The rapid influx
Of input and
Expect all info
To travel as close to
The speed
Of light as
Our sight
And have realized
Even sound
Should be
Instantaneous
So if
Very important
Data
Is transmitted
At a speed
Less
Than now
We become irritable
Even irascible
Perhaps irrational
Because the gravity
Of the situation
Does not drop like a rock
With the familiar
Thud
But
Instead wafts
On sonic wave
And woof
Of truth’s
Indelible measure



Rec




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4. Founding fathers would have already taken action.