Andrew P. Napolitano

The Supreme Court and the right to keep and bear arms

If the gun owners in this New York City case prevail, that right could be extended to public places outside the home, where police acknowledge that armed and well-trained civilians are most valued today.

December 4, 2019

What if on Thanksgiving Day we are most grateful that we are free?

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

November 27, 2019

The dangers of a Trump imperial presidency

President Trump has imposed a sales tax that he calls a tariff, bombed Syria without congressional consent, defied federal court orders at the border and spent money from the federal Treasury not appropriated by Congress.

November 20, 2019

Is ignorance of the Constitution Trump’s defense?

As public hearings on impeachment begin this week, we will see the case for and the case against impeaching President Donald Trump. The facts are largely undisputed, but each side has its version of them.

November 13, 2019

Would Roosevelt have made a Trumpian demand with a world leader?

Late last week, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution authorizing formal investigations into whether President Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses while in office.

November 6, 2019

Republicans should be careful what they ask for during impeachment process

Early this week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, giving Republicans what they asked for, announced that the full House will vote on initiating an impeachment investigation of the president.

October 30, 2019

How Trump disparages the Constitution

Mr. Trump referred to a clause in the Constitution as "phony," and he thereby implied that he need not abide it nor enforce it, notwithstanding his oath.

October 23, 2019

Is the impeachment process fair?

Impeachment is always constitutional if it originates in the House and if its basis is arguably for treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

October 16, 2019

The presidency, war powers and the Constitution

President Trump's decision to withdraw the troops caused a firestorm among those in Congress who like war and those who believe that the United States should be using our military amply in the Middle East to help our friends and oppose our foes.

October 9, 2019

President Trump attacks his own presidency

The House of Representatives has begun to gather evidence in an effort to determine if President Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses. The U.S. Constitution defines an impeachable offense as "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

October 2, 2019

President Trump’s brazen acts of corruption

Last week, media outlets reported the existence of a whistleblower complaint filed with the inspector general of the intelligence community against President Donald Trump. The IC encompasses all civilian and military employees and contractors who work for the federal government gathering domestic and foreign intelligence.

September 25, 2019

How the government infringes on the right to be left alone

Great Britain is currently the most watched country in the Western world -- watched, that is, by its own police forces. In London alone, the police have erected more than 420,000 surveillance cameras in public places.

September 18, 2019

Who cares what the government thinks?

In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which would become known as Bill of Rights, he insisted that the most prominent amendment among them restrain the government from interfering with the freedom of speech.

September 11, 2019

The temptation of tyranny

Does the president of the United States have too much power? That question has been asked lately with respect to President Donald Trump's use of federal funds to construct 175 miles of sporadic walls along portions of the 2,000-mile common border between Texas and Mexico.

September 4, 2019

President Trump’s nonemergency of his own making

Late last week, President Donald Trump issued a tweet in which he purported to order American businesses to cease doing work with their employees and contract partners in China.

August 28, 2019

More spying and lying from the Trump administration

The Trump administration has quietly moved to extend and make permanent the government's authority to spy on all persons in America.

August 21, 2019

Second Amendment liberties: The dangerous urge to do something

When tragedy strikes, as it did in two mass killings earlier this month, there is always the urge to pressure the government to do something.

August 14, 2019

Supreme Court: Right to bear arms protected by highest category of liberty recognized by law

Last weekend's mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have produced a flood of words about everything from gun control to mental illness to white nationalism. Most of those words have addressed the right to keep and bear arms as if it were a gift from the government. It isn't.

August 7, 2019

Why hatred must be rejected loudly in all its forms

The private Trump I have known is funny, charming and embracing. That is not the public Trump of today.

July 24, 2019

The limits of free speech

During the past week, President Donald Trump excited two bitter public controversies by sending and publishing two highly inappropriate and offensively incendiary tweets.

July 17, 2019