Andrew P. Napolitano

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

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Questions for Loretta Lynch’s Senate confirmation hearings

Within hours of realizing that his party lost control of the U.S. Senate last week, President Obama nominated Loretta Lynch, the chief federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y., to be the next attorney general. Published November 12, 2014

ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: Can the Republicans make a difference?

With the midterm elections complete, it is clear now that the Republicans will control the U.S. Senate for the next two years. Will it make a difference? Published November 5, 2014

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. Published October 29, 2014

ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: The feds’ ‘truthy’ new chill on free speech

Earlier this week, the federal government's National Science Foundation, an entity created to encourage the study of science, announced that it had awarded a grant to study what people say about themselves and others in social media. Published October 22, 2014

ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: A euphemism for tyranny

Earlier this week, FBI Director James Comey in an interview on "60 Minutes" revealed a flawed understanding of personal freedom. Published October 15, 2014

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. Published October 8, 2014

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. Published October 1, 2014

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? Published September 24, 2014