Judge Napolitano on the 2012 Election, Obamacare, and The Future of Liberty

"Those of us who really yearn for a return to first principles, the natural law, the Constitution, a government that only has powers that we have consented it may have... are frustrated by the choice between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney," says Judge Andrew Napolitano, author of the upcoming book "Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Your Constitutional Freedoms," Fox Business contributor, and former host of "Freedom Watch."

Reason Magazine's Matt Welch sat down with Napolitano at FreedomFest 2012 and discussed the ramifications of the Supreme Court's ruling on the individual mandate and whether or not there's a substantive difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney from a libertarian perspective.

Held each July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is attended by around 2,000 limited-government enthusiasts and libertarians a year. ReasonTV spoke with over two dozen speakers and attendees and will be releasing interviews over the coming weeks. For an ever-growing playlist, go here now:

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[dootndo2]

Wearing a blue tie will cause you to be taxed. Doesn't wear a tie.

Get 'em Judge!

[rxantos]

Judges are people too. And those in the supreme court are appointed by politicians (president + congress). Is not based on merit, nor honesty. But on loyalty to their respective political parties.

IF there is an honest judge in the supreme court, it would be by accident not by design.

[Jim Haley]

15 more traitors/politicians/lawyers or just plain Nazis ,,God bless the US constitution

[libertarianjury]

This convinces me that Judge Napolitano is fairly sound philosophically, but a strategic lightweight.

[Garland English]

Judge Andrew Napolitano for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

[Jo Cai]

The Constitution is still a great document which should be followed.

And yes, we can change the Constitution. It's called the amendment process. If the majority of Americans really supported something, the Constitution could be amended.

[larryl212]

The Chicago Gangsters got to Roberts exactly the way they got to Petraeus. Somebody inside the Soetoro regime had something bad on Roberts. A phone call was made. Roberts folded. It's as simple as that... corruption at the highest levels. 

[Michael Barry]

my dream presidential administration would be President Ron Paul, Vice-President Jesse Ventura, Secretary of State Gary Johnson, and Judge Napolitano on the Supreme Court. One can only imagine how much better off we would be

[jalend0gg]

Most of the founding fathers had some great ideas and some unconstitutional statist authoritarian ideas. But Lincoln was by far the most tyrannical and evil president the US has ever had, so far.

[Onieracraft]

a government that controls the money controls the people, THAT is the lesson you should have taken from Hitler and Franco. They couldn't have accomplished what they did without this. Also, I can't name a single policy that Romney advocated that is more invasive than Obama's healthcare atrocity. Do some more research on exactly how many tentacles that thing has.

With the exception of your claim about the war on drugs which is correct, the rest of your accusations were ambiguous nonsense.