Andrew P. Napolitano

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Unconstitutional collection of information

Would all of our lives be safer if the government could break down all the doors it wishes, listen to all the conversations it could find and read whatever emails and text messages it could acquire? Perhaps. But who would want to live in such a society?

April 27, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Obama’s immigration law and the Supreme Court

In 2014, President Obama signed 12 executive orders directing various agencies in the departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security to refrain from deporting some 4 million adult immigrants illegally present in the United States if they are the parents of children born here or legally present here, and if they hold a job, obtain a high-school diploma or its equivalent, pay taxes and stay out of prison.

April 20, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Obama damning Hillary Clinton with faint praise

President Obama's recent remarks to my Fox News colleague Chris Wallace about Hillary Clinton's email issues were either Machiavellian or dumb. It is difficult to tell from them whether he wants the mountain of evidence of her criminal behavior presented to a federal grand jury or he wants her to succeed him in the White House.

April 13, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Questioning the minimum wage increase

What if the latest craze among the big-government crowd in both major political parties is to use the power of government to force employers to pay some of their employees more than their services are worth to the employers?

April 6, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton’s FBI troubles

The FBI investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's failure to protect state secrets contained in her emails has entered its penultimate phase, and it is a dangerous one for her and her aides.

March 30, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: On Easter, hope for the dead

What is the connection between personal freedom and rising from the dead?

March 23, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hecklers can voice opposition, but not silence speaker

On Feb. 7, 1946, Arthur Terminiello, a Roman Catholic priest who was a fierce opponent of communism and believed that President Harry Truman was too comfortable with it, gave an incendiary speech in a Chicago hall that his sponsors had rented.

March 16, 2016

ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton email probe needs more aggressive FBI

What if Hillary Clinton is in legal hot water and she knows it but won't admit it? What if she has decided to go on the offensive and make her case that she did nothing unlawful with her emails that contained state secrets?

March 9, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton’s false hopes

Surely, Hillary Clinton hopes for a happy conclusion to the maddening string of primaries and caucuses that have exhausted her. Surely, she hopes to be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party this year. And surely, she hopes to be elected president. These hopes are realistic probabilities in her own mind.

March 2, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Apple’s involuntary servitude

"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all." -- Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016)

February 24, 2016

ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: Justice Scalia and constitutional fidelity

When the sad news came of the sudden death this past weekend of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, I wept for my friend.

February 17, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Many candidates, but no choices

What if all the remaining presidential candidates really want the same things? What if they all offer essentially the same ideas couched in different words? What if these primary races have become beauty pageants largely based on personality and advertising?

February 10, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton compromising national security

This has not been a good week for Hillary Clinton. She prevailed over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses by less than four-tenths of 1 percent of all votes cast, after having led him in polls in Iowa at one time by 40 percentage points.

February 3, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton’s nightmare is an SAP email program

Hillary Clinton's nightmare is not the sudden resurgence of Bernie Sanders. It is the fidelity to the rule of law of the FBI.

January 27, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: The abiding abortion controversy

In one week during January 1973, President Richard M. Nixon was inaugurated to his second term, former President Lyndon B. Johnson died, the United States and North Vietnam entered into the Paris Peace Accords, and the Supreme Court legalized abortion. Only the last of these events continues to affect and haunt the moral and constitutional order every minute of every day.

January 20, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton’s legal problems

The federal criminal investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's failure to secure state secrets was ratcheted up earlier this week, and at the same time, the existence of a parallel criminal investigation of another aspect of her behavior was made known. This is the second publicly revealed expansion of the FBI's investigations in two months.

January 13, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Obama has no authority to issue gun laws rejected by Congress

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." --Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

January 6, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Office pool, 2016

1) The Republican nominee for president in 2016 will be:

December 30, 2015

ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: America at Christmas

As if to promise a Christmas present, Congress has just finished approving the finances of the federal government for the next few months. Santa Claus would have done a better job. During early 2016, Congress will pay the government's bills by borrowing money from individual and institutional lenders. Those folks will lend the feds all the money the feds need because the law requires the feds to pay them back.

December 23, 2015

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Secrets of the Hillary Clinton chronicles

While the country has been fixated on Donald Trump's tormenting his Republican primary opponents and deeply concerned about the government's efforts to identify any confederates in the San Bernardino killings, a team of federal prosecutors and FBI agents continues to examine Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state in order to determine whether she committed any crimes and, if so, whether there is sufficient evidence to prove her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

December 16, 2015