Skip to content
Author profile
Andrew P. Napolitano

Andrew P. Napolitano

anapolitano123@washingtontimes.com

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.

Articles by Andrew P. Napolitano

Liberties Lost Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: The presumption of liberty

In the years following the adoption of the Constitution, before he was secretary of state under President Thomas Jefferson and then president himself, James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, was a member of the House of Representatives.

October 29, 2014
President Obama stands with former President George W. Bush at the dedication of the George W. Bush presidential library on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas on April 25, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

NAPOLITANO: Parallel reconstruction, an edifice of lies at NSA and DOJ

While the political commentators in the nation's capital are wrapped up in the debate over what to do about the Islamic State … the president's spies continue to capture massive amounts of personal information about hundreds of millions of us and lie about it.

October 8, 2014
James Clapper          T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: Throwing Clapper under the bus

When President Obama attributed the rise in Iraq of the Islamic State, or ISIS, to the failures of the U.S. intelligence community earlier this week, naming and blaming directly National Intelligence Director James R. Clapper, he was attempting to deflect criticism of his own incompetence.

October 1, 2014
Illustration on the dangers of renewed involvement in Iraq by Kevin Kreneck/Tribune Content Agency

NAPOLITANO: Mistakes of the past are back in Iraq and Syria

What if the American invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction? What if whatever weapons of mass destruction Saddam Hussein once had were sold to him in the 1980s by American arms dealers with the express permission of the U.S. government?

September 24, 2014
Illustration on Congress' authority to make war     The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: When America wages war

Chief among those restraints, in Madison's view, was the delegation to Congress, and not to the president, of the power to wage war.

September 10, 2014