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Andrew P. Napolitano

Andrew P. Napolitano

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Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is an analyst for the Fox News Channel. He has written seven books on the U.S. Constitution.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives an acceptance speech after accepting the Trailblazer Award during the LGBT Community Center Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street on Thursday, April 20, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton under FBI scrutiny again

Last weekend, The New York Times published a long piece about the effect the FBI had on the outcome of the 2016 presidential campaign. As we all know, Donald Trump won a comfortable victory in the Electoral College while falling about 3 million votes behind Hillary Clinton in the popular vote.

April 26, 2017
Illustration on a secret Congress within the Congress by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Self-government could be an illusion

What if our belief in self-government is a belief in a myth? What if the election of one political party over the other to control Congress changes only appearances?

April 19, 2017
This frame grab from video provided by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows Syrian rebels sitting inside a room before release as part of a deal to evacuate over 10,000 residents from Madaya and Zabadani, two opposition-held areas near Damascus, and the two rebel-besieged villages of Foua and Kfarya, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Syria's government and rebels exchanged some 30 prisoners and nine bodies, part of a larger agreement to evacuate four besieged areas in different parts of the country, activists and officials said Wednesday. The Arabic words above read:"Handing over the fighter prisoners as part of the exchange deal." (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

Syria airstrikes was illogical move for Trump

The history of the world is the history of violence. I had planned to write this column about the most critical act of violence in human history and its superhuman aftermath -- the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

April 12, 2017
Hole in the Wall Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Government spying on citizenry a hole in the Constitution

The issue of federal government surveillance of Americans has largely occupied Washington politicians and the media since President Trump first accused his predecessor's administration of spying on him while he and his colleagues worked at Trump Tower in New York City during the presidential election campaign and during the presidential transition.

April 5, 2017
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley talks with new mothers while launching a statewide Baby Box Program to help improve family healthcare outcomes and reduce Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Syndrome (SUIDS) Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. (Julie Bennett /AL.com via AP)

Health care must be labeled for what it is

The political fiasco that unfolded last week as President Trump and the Republican House leadership failed to pass legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, is attributable as much to the failure of politics as it is to the failure of politicians to understand the constitutional role of the federal government.

March 29, 2017
Illustration on the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency

Neil Gorsuch judged by politicians

I have spent this past week watching the Senate Judiciary Committee interrogating U.S. Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch. Judge Gorsuch is President Trump's nominee to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

March 22, 2017
No Need for FISA Court Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Privacy surrendered in the name of security

Those of us who believe that the Constitution means what it says have been arguing since the late 1970s that congressional efforts to strengthen national security by weakening personal liberty are unconstitutional, un-American and ineffective. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which Congress passed in the aftermath of President Richard Nixon's use of the CIA and the FBI to spy on his political opponents, has unleashed demons that now seem beyond the government's control and are more pervasive than anything Nixon could have dreamed of.

March 8, 2017
Talk radio hosts are taking note of President Trump's masterful command of his audiences, and advise making use of his style. (Associated Press)

Leaks to press may harm Trump

Last week, President Trump erupted with fury over a series of public revelations of private facts -- some top-secret and some office gossip -- that painted him and his White House in a bad light. The president ordered the FBI to investigate some of these so-called leaks and his own White House counsel to investigate others.

March 1, 2017
Illustration on domestic spying by Mark Weber/Tribune Content Agency

Privacy traded away for security in America

Last week, The Wall Street Journal revealed that members of the intelligence community -- part of the deep state, the unseen government within the government that does not change with elections -- now have acquired so much data on everyone in America that they can selectively reveal it to reward their friends and harm their foes. Their principal foe today is the president of the United States.

February 22, 2017
President Donald Trump calls out to the media after escorting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his car to depart the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump as president superior for foreign policy

Over the past weekend, Trump administration officials offered harsh criticisms of the judicial interference with the enforcement of the president's immigration order. The Jan. 27 order suspended the immigration privileges of all refugees from Syria indefinitely and all immigrants from seven designated countries for 90 days.

February 15, 2017
Americans are optimistic since President Trump took over at the White House, with businesses overwhelmingly expecting improvements. (Associated Press)

Trump and the courts have uneasy relationship

Last week, in a public courtroom in the federal courthouse in Seattle, the states of Washington and Minnesota -- after suing President Trump, alleging injury caused by his executive order that suspended the immigration of all people from seven foreign countries -- asked a federal judge to compel the president and all those who work for him to cease enforcing the order immediately.

February 8, 2017
Illustration on immigration questions by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The immigration conundrum

This past weekend, we all saw massive public outrage in major cities throughout the country. It was directed at the Jan. 27 issuance of an executive order, signed by President Trump, addressing immigration. With the executive order, the president ordered the suspension of entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, as well as anyone from Syria for an indefinite period and anyone from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen for 90 days.

February 1, 2017
Illustration on Trump's beginnings on Obamacare repeal by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Donald Trump, revolutionary

Within four hours of becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to limit immediately the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in ways that are revolutionary.

January 25, 2017
In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, Attorney General Loretta Lynch poses for a portrait during an interview with The Associated Press at the University of Baltimore School of Law in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Obama authorized destruction of liberty

On Jan. 3, outgoing Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch secretly signed an order directing the National Security Agency (NSA) -- America's 60,000-person-strong domestic spying apparatus -- to make available raw spying data to all other federal intelligence agencies, which then can pass it on to their counterparts in foreign countries and in the 50 states upon request.

January 18, 2017
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a reception celebrating the completion of the U.S. Diplomacy Center Pavilion at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Hillary Clinton server continues to haunt her

The criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton is back front and center now that the FBI has released proof that her failure to safeguard state secrets caused the secrets to fall into the hands of foreign governments, some of which wish the United States ill.

January 11, 2017

The scandals that Valerie Jarrett overlooked

Over the New Year's weekend, President Obama's chief policy adviser and closest strategist, Valerie Jarrett, told a talk show host that her boss would have a happy legacy because there was an absence of scandal in his administration. When first I heard this preposterous claim, I thought I had misheard it.

January 4, 2017
The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is lit up during a ceremony on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. The Capitol Christmas Tree is an 80-foot Engelmann Spruce from the Payette National Forest in Idaho. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

America at Christmas

What if Christmas is a core value of belief in a personal God who lived among us and His freely given promise of eternal salvation that no believer should reject or apologize for? What if Christmas is the rebirth of Christ in the hearts of all believers? What if Christmas is the potential rebirth of Christ in every heart that will have Him, whether a believer or not?

December 21, 2016
Illustration on the leaking done during the 2016 election by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Did the Russians hack Hillary Clinton?

Earlier this week, leaders of the Democratic National Committee and former officials of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign made the startling allegation that the Russian government hacked into the email accounts of Mrs. Clinton's colleagues to tilt the presidential election toward Donald Trump.

December 14, 2016