Andrew P. Napolitano

Taking Christmas seriously means humility, charity and abandonment to His will

God works in strange ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."

December 16, 2020

Can President Trump pardon himself?

Most presidential pardons -- indeed all pardons that President Trump has issued -- have been for specific crimes of which the subject of the pardon has already been charged and convicted.

December 9, 2020

Freedom of religion is as threatened today as it was in 1791

Freedom of religion is not the first freedom by mistake. It was the judgment of the framers that this freedom is as essential to human fulfillment as are any other free choices that free people make.

December 2, 2020

Questions for Thanksgiving Day 2020

What if the government's true goal is to perpetuate its own power? What if the real levers of governmental power are pulled by agents and diplomats and by bureaucrats and central bankers behind the scenes?

November 25, 2020

Governors begin another wave of personal liberty attacks with COVID-19 resurgence

There is no pandemic exception to the Constitution. It is liberty that flows in our veins, not false promises of government safety.

November 18, 2020

Animals bring out the best in us, and the loss of a beloved pet is like no other

Earlier this week, I experienced a death like no other. My little Gina, a black lab and chow mix, died in my arms in my home in New Jersey. She was 16 years and 10 months old.

November 11, 2020

U.S. government’s appetite for spying on Americans remains voracious

In 2019, agents of the federal and state governments persuaded judges to issue 99% of all requested intercepts. An intercept is any type of government surveillance -- telephone, text message, email, even in-person.

November 4, 2020

Presidential election comes down to the personal character of Trump and Biden

Who is more honest? Who is more modest? Who has a better concept of pain and fear? Who understands the Constitution? Who is disruptive and chaotic?

October 28, 2020

Packing the Supreme Court for political reasons is dangerous to U.S. freedoms

The concept of court packing has reared its head. The phrase "court packing" is a derogatory reference to legislation that alters the number of seats on the Supreme Court to alter its perceived ideological makeup.

October 21, 2020

What if Americans ignore the government?

What if massive numbers of us make these decisions on our own? What if the governors' edicts don't really carry the force of law?

October 14, 2020

Michigan’s Supreme Court liberates citizens from Gretchen Whitmer’s pandemic executive orders

Late last week, the Supreme Court of Michigan -- the state's highest and final court -- invalidated the pandemic executive orders of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as well as the statute on which she based those orders.

October 7, 2020

Can the government force us to eat broccoli?

Wait a minute. Didn't the Supreme Court already uphold Obamacare in 2012? Yes, it did. So why is the constitutionality of this legislation back before the Supreme Court?

September 30, 2020

For Justice Ginsburg, the Constitution unleashed the Court and government

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tenacious advocacy for the rights of those she perceived as legally disadvantaged, combined with her outsized intellect, moved the vector of the court's direction as few justices have in history.

September 23, 2020

Gubernatorial orders regulating travel, work and assembly during pandemic ruled unconstitutional

A federal court in Pennsylvania this week has become the first in the nation to rule that the lockdown, social distancing and essential workplace regulations imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf are unconstitutional.

September 16, 2020

Should Americans believe Trump or The Atlantic?

I was appalled at the allegations against President Trump leveled in a recent article in The Atlantic. The article claimed that the president referred to American soldiers killed in World War I and buried in France as "losers" and "suckers."

September 9, 2020

Is Trump guilty of inciting violence?

All states have laws that prohibit assault and destruction of others' property. States and the federal government also have laws that prohibit bystanders from encouraging others to engage in violence.

September 2, 2020

Time for federal government to sell the Postal Service

The Postal Service is a grossly inefficient entity which could never survive were it not a monopoly.

August 26, 2020

From the streets of Portland to the NSA, U.S. government spying on everyone proceeds unabated

During this summer of madness in Portland, Oregon, and sadness over COVID-19, two below-the-radar events occurred implicating the insatiable appetite of U.S. government to spy on everyone in America.

August 19, 2020

Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders: Only Congress can spend federal monies

The Treasury cannot legally borrow or spend a nickel unless it has been expressly authorized to do so by law -- meaning by legislation enacted by Congress.

August 12, 2020

Portland demonstrates that government spying on citizens has become commonplace, and easy

The government spies routinely on Americans today -- so much so that the revelation of it ceases to shock.

August 5, 2020