Andrew P. Napolitano

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. Published March 30, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: On Easter, hope for the dead

What is the connection between personal freedom and rising from the dead? Published 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. Published 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? Published 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. Published 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) Published 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. Published 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? Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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 Published January 6, 2016

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Office pool, 2016

1) The Republican nominee for president in 2016 will be: Published 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. Published 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. Published December 16, 2015

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Domestic data spying useless in stopping mass shooters

If you were looking for a needle in a haystack, simple logic would tell you that the smaller the haystack, the likelier you are to find the needle. Except for the government. Published December 9, 2015

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Warrantless searches hallmark of totalitarianism

In an effort to draw attention away from the intelligence failures that permitted the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and create the impression that it was doing something -- anything -- to avoid a repeat, the federal government tampered seriously with freedoms expressly guaranteed in the Constitution. Its principal target was the right to privacy, which is protected in the Fourth Amendment. Published December 2, 2015

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: What to be thankful for?

What if the government's goal is to perpetuate itself? What if the real levers of governmental power are pulled by agents, diplomats and bureaucrats behind the scenes? What if they stay in power no matter who is elected president or which political party controls Congress? Published November 25, 2015

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: More government surveillance produces false sense of security

The tragedy in Paris last Friday has regrettably been employed as a catalyst for renewed calls by governments in western Europe and even in the United States for more curtailment of personal liberties. Those who accept the trade of liberty for safety have argued in favor of less liberty. Published November 18, 2015