Andrew P. Napolitano
Articles by Andrew P. Napolitano
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton on the ropes over email scandal
Late last week, the inspector general of the State Department completed a yearlong investigation into the use by Hillary Clinton of a private email server for all of her official government email as secretary of state. Published June 1, 2016
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: The contagion of government lying
"Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." -- Justice Louis Brandeis Published May 25, 2016
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Who answers for government lies?
Here is a quick pop quiz. What happens if we lie to the government? What happens if the government lies to us? Does it matter who does the lying? Published May 18, 2016
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is a perfect legal storm
The bad legal news for Hillary Clinton continued to cascade upon her presidential hopes during the past week in what has amounted to a perfect storm of legal misery. Here is what happened. Published May 11, 2016
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Bill Clinton: Hillary Clinton’s secret weapon
Last weekend, Hillary Clinton dispatched her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to offer a defense of her alleged espionage. Published May 4, 2016
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Unconstitutional collection of information
Would all of our lives be safer if the government could break down all the doors it wishes, listen to all the conversations it could find and read whatever emails and text messages it could acquire? Perhaps. But who would want to live in such a society? Published April 27, 2016
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Obama’s immigration law and the Supreme Court
In 2014, President Obama signed 12 executive orders directing various agencies in the departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security to refrain from deporting some 4 million adult immigrants illegally present in the United States if they are the parents of children born here or legally present here, and if they hold a job, obtain a high-school diploma or its equivalent, pay taxes and stay out of prison. Published April 20, 2016
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Obama damning Hillary Clinton with faint praise
President Obama's recent remarks to my Fox News colleague Chris Wallace about Hillary Clinton's email issues were either Machiavellian or dumb. It is difficult to tell from them whether he wants the mountain of evidence of her criminal behavior presented to a federal grand jury or he wants her to succeed him in the White House. Published April 13, 2016
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Questioning the minimum wage increase
What if the latest craze among the big-government crowd in both major political parties is to use the power of government to force employers to pay some of their employees more than their services are worth to the employers? Published April 6, 2016
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
