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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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Illustration on federal spending and the impact of debt by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Our federal government exists on fake money, borrowed time

These are the times that try our souls because, at home, we have a government that spends $1.7 trillion a year more than it takes in, while abroad, it taunts Russian dictator Vladimir Putin by paying for a war in Ukraine.

July 24, 2024
Truisms in the Constitution and inalienable rights illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

To the government, rights are merely privileges

The world is filled with self-evident truths -- truisms -- that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proved. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four.

July 17, 2024
The Fourth Amendment (Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Government violations of the Fourth Amendment

In his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1928 called the right to be left alone the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

July 10, 2024
Visitor view the statue of Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial early in the morning Saturday, April 12, 2014. Sunday, April 13, marks the 271st anniversary of Jefferson's birth. Jefferson is the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and is one of the United States of America's founding fathers. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Twilight’s last gleaming

When a presidential debate devolves into an argument over golf scores, and afterward, the public argues about the candidates' mental acuity or honesty, when the question for voters is who is the sharper debater rather than who would be more faithful to the Constitution, when both major party candidates support mass surveillance, undeclared foreign wars and borrowing trillions of dollars a year to fund a bloated government, nearly all of which is nowhere countenanced by the Constitution, we can safely conclude that personal liberty in our once free society has been radically diminished and is in the twilight of its existence.

July 3, 2024
Julian Assange is free illustration by Alexander Hunter/ The Washington Times

Julian Assange is free

It wasn't until 1969 that the Supreme Court's modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government and a person over the constitutionality of the person's speech, the courts will give every benefit and draw every inference to the speaker, and none to the government. This is so because the freedom of speech is a natural right; it is also expressly protected by the Constitution, and thus, it is always to be presumed constitutional and lawful.

June 26, 2024
A sign stands outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus on in Fort Meade, Md., on June 6, 2013. The national reckoning over racial inequality sparked by George Floyd's murder two years ago has gone on behind closed doors inside America's intelligence agencies. Shortly after his death, employees of the National Security Agency had a call to speak to their director about racism and cultural misunderstandings. One by one, officers spoke about examples of racism that they had seen in America's largest intelligence service. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

What if it’s dangerous to be right when the government is wrong?

What if the government is a myth? What if it doesn't produce what we pay it for? What if it fails to safeguard our lives, liberties and property from its own agents? What if nothing changes after these failures and after elections? What if we're stuck with it?

June 19, 2024
Waging war and the Constitution illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What is the U.S. doing in Ukraine?

Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged?

June 12, 2024
Perpetual unconstitutional spying on ordinary Americans Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Is your car spying on you?

Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Edward Markey of Massachusetts revealed that automobiles sold in the U.S. with a GPS or emergency call system accumulate the vehicle's travel data on computer chips.

May 8, 2024
CIA spying on Americans and the Fourth Amendment illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

CIA wants more power to spy on Americans

Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

April 10, 2024
The Constitution and protecting freedom of speech illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Government attacks freedom of speech

Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty, as governments across the United States engaged in direct and subtle attacks on free speech.

April 3, 2024
The TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, Sept. 28, 2020, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Can Congress ban TikTok?

Congress now wants to give the president of the United States the lawful power to suppress websites he thinks are spying on their users or permitting foreign governments to influence what Americans see on the sites.

March 20, 2024