"Do
you know anybody living who expressly consents to the existence of the
government and consents to what it does?" asks Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior
judicial analyst for Fox News, syndicated columnist, and author of, most
recently, Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the
Assault on Civil Liberties. "Your rights, my rights, are integral to our
humanity. The government can't take them away by majority vote!"
Reason's
Nick Gillespie caught up with the judge at this year's FreedomFest, the annual
gathering of libertarians in Las Vegas, to discuss how his traditional
Catholicism intersects with his libertarian politics, why electing Trump or
Clinton will likely lead to the "demise of the Constitution as we understand
it," why he thinks Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson won't
win in November, his commitment to open borders, and the philosophical
underpinnings to his pro-life stance on abortion.
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