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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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Joel Cazares, left, of Santa Ana, Calif., of Building Healthy Communities joins other immigration rights activists in a news conference in front of Santa Ana city hall in Santa Ana on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, to voice their support for Santa Ana becoming a sanctuary city. The move comes after Trump campaigned on promises to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and calls for tougher immigration enforcement. (Paul Rodriguez/The Orange County Register via AP)

Are sanctuary cities legal?

Last week, President-elect Donald Trump re-emphasized the approach he will take in enforcing the nation's immigration laws, which is much different from the manner of enforcement utilized by President Obama.

December 7, 2016
Illustration on flag burning by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Flag burning may be protected speech

Is flag burning protected speech? This old issue returned front and center earlier this week after President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that he found it so reprehensible, it should be criminal.

November 30, 2016
A member of the Secret Service Uniformed Division with a K-9 walks along the perimeter fence along Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in Washington, Sept. 22, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

What if the government is not worth thanking?

What if on Thanksgiving Day there is more to be fearful about than there is to be thankful for? What if our political season from hell is not over but merely transformed? What if the election season through which we all just suffered is a portent of things to come?

November 23, 2016
FBI Director James B. Comey. (Associated Press)

How FBI, Justice officials interfered with election

When Hillary Clinton delivered a campaign post-mortem to her major supporters in a telephone conference call late last week, she blamed her loss in the presidential election on FBI Director James Comey. She should have blamed the loss on herself.

November 16, 2016
Zheng Gao of Shanghi, China, photographs the front pages of newspapers on display outside the Newseum in Washington, Wednesday, Nov., 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump won the presidency. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump and the forgotten man

The forgotten man decided the presidential election. Donald Trump persuaded the forgotten man to repose his anger and frustration and power into Mr. Trump's hands. Who is the forgotten man? What does he want from government? Why did he vote for Mr. Trump?

November 9, 2016
Hoover Looking Over James Comey Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

James Comey’s casting of innuendo reminiscent of J. Edgar Hoover

I had intended to use this final column before the presidential election to explain at length why I cannot vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump and plan to vote for Gary Johnson for president. In a nutshell, big government is our biggest problem.

November 2, 2016
FILE - In this June 17, 2014, file photo, FBI Director James Comey addresses a news conference at the FBI Minneapolis field office in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Dramatic videos of deadly law enforcement encounters and the absence of reliable data about how often police use force contribute to a regrettable narrative that "biased police are killing black men at epidemic rates," Comey said Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

The FBI’s sideways handling of Hillary Clinton

When FBI Director James Comey announced on July 5 that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would not seek the indictment of Hillary Clinton for failure to safeguard state secrets related to her email use while she was secretary of state, he both jumped the gun and set in motion a series of events that surely he did not intend.

October 26, 2016
Illustration on a shadow U.S. government by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What if liberty is attached to humanity?

What if the Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to protect our natural rights? What if natural rights are the freedoms we enjoy without neighbors or strangers or government interfering? What if those freedoms are listed in part in the Bill of Rights?

October 19, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colo., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Can the media reveal stolen truths?

It seems that at every turn during this crazy presidential election campaign -- with its deeply flawed principal candidates (whom do you hate less?) -- someone's personal or professional computer records are being hacked. First it was Hillary Clinton's emails that she had failed to surrender to the State Department.

October 12, 2016
Blind Justice Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why due process is vital to freedom

"No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." -- Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

September 21, 2016
Illustration on the co-option of the FBI and Justice Department over the Hillary email investigation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What is the FBI hiding?

Earlier this week, Republican leaders in both houses of Congress took the FBI to task for its failure to be transparent. In the House, it was apparently necessary to serve a subpoena on an FBI agent to obtain what members of Congress want to see, and in the Senate, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee accused the FBI itself of lawbreaking.

September 14, 2016
Illustration on the FBI's instructions to exonerate Hillary by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

FBI managers instructed to exonerate Hillary Clinton

On Sept. 2, the FBI released a lengthy explanation of its investigation of Hillary Clinton and a summary of the evidence amassed against her. It also released a summary of Mrs. Clinton's July FBI interrogation.

September 7, 2016
Hillary Short Circuit Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Hillary Clinton ‘short-circuited’ on email scandal

When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked last week if she has misled the American people on the issue of her failure to safeguard state secrets contained in her emails, she told my Fox News colleague, Chris Wallace, that the FBI had exonerated her. When pressed by Mr. Wallace, she argued that FBI Director James Comey said that her answers to the American people were truthful.

August 10, 2016
Illustration on Mrs. Clinton, terrorist groups and U.S. intelligence operations in the Middle-East by Greg Groesch

Hillary Clinton pursued by U.S. intelligence agents

On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks -- the courageous international organization dedicated to governmental transparency -- exposed hundreds of internal emails circulated among senior staff of the Democratic National Committee during the past 18 months.

August 3, 2016
Delegates cheer during the third day session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

An unconventional abridgment of free speech

This summer, we have all witnessed the heavy hand of government intervening in the freedom of speech, as the behavior of the Secret Service at both the Republican convention in Cleveland and the Democratic convention in Philadelphia has been troubling and unconstitutional.

July 27, 2016
Hillary Dodging Prison Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

FBI exoneration of Hillary Clinton raises disturbing questions

What if the folks who run the Department of Political Justice recently were told that the republic would suffer if Hillary Clinton were indicted for espionage because Donald Trump might succeed Barack Obama in the presidency? What if espionage is the failure to safeguard state secrets and the evidence that Mrs. Clinton failed to safeguard them is unambiguous and overwhelming?

July 20, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Speaks at the Old State House in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, July 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Hillary Clinton and personal honesty

When FBI Director James Comey publicly revealed his recommendation to the Department of Justice last week that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not be prosecuted for espionage, he unleashed a firestorm of criticism from those who believe that Mrs. Clinton was judged by different standards from those used to judge others when deciding whether to bring a case to a grand jury.

July 13, 2016