Andrew P. Napolitano

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. Published July 10, 2024

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. Published July 3, 2024

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. Published June 26, 2024

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? Published June 19, 2024