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Andrew P. Napolitano

Andrew P. Napolitano

anapolitano123@washingtontimes.com

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

Illustration on Hillary's role in the Libyan chaos of 2011-12 by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton lied about role in ousting Moammar Gadhafi

The New York Times' Maureen Dowd captured the moment last weekend when she referred to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "the midwife to chaos" in Libya. Ms. Dowd apparently came to that conclusion after watching Mrs. Clinton bobbing and weaving and admitting and denying as she was confronted with the partial record of her failures and obfuscations as secretary of state, particularly with respect to Libya.

October 28, 2015
Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department initially approved a weapons shipment from a California company to Libyans seeking to oust Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 even though a United Nations arms ban was in place, according to memos recovered from the burned-out compound in Benghazi. (Associated Press)

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Questions for Hillary Clinton

At long last, Hillary Clinton testifies on the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi and her emails as secretary of state. Here are some suggested questions. Although these suggestions are based on the public record, we need to assume that the members of the House Benghazi committee have seen far more than the public has.

October 21, 2015
Illustration on Hillary Clinton's scandal trouble by Heng, Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Why Hillary Clinton is so unhappy

Why is Hillary Clinton so unhappy? According to her, when she and her husband left the White House, they were dead broke. Yet they left with a truckload of valuable furniture, dinnerware and flatware that was the property of the federal government, for which they were never prosecuted.

October 14, 2015
Natural Self Defense Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton would crush Second Amendment

While the FBI continued to analyze the emails Hillary Rodham Clinton thought she deleted and her advisers pressed her to hire a Republican criminal defense attorney in Washington, a madman used a lawfully purchased handgun to kill a professor and eight students at a community college in Roseburg, Ore.

October 7, 2015
Illustration on concerns over Pope Francis' ideological positions by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Is Pope Francis a false prophet?

Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican, has invited me to the House of Representatives to watch Pope Francis address a joint session of Congress. This generous Methodist congressman has invited your traditionalist Roman Catholic columnist and cable TV guy to this grand event.

September 23, 2015
Illustration on the judicial system's sanctioning of abortion by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: The dark side of Planned Parenthood

The recent broadcast of videotapes taken of persons employed at Planned Parenthood -- the prolific and notorious abortion provider -- has brought the issue of abortion to the national consciousness again, and front and center to the Republican presidential primary campaign. The tapes were made secretly by a pro-life group determined to show to the world the dark side of Planned Parenthood's use of federal funds.

August 5, 2015
Hillary Must Be Lying Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary Clinton lies about emails again

In a column I wrote in early July, based on research by my colleagues and my own analysis of government documents and eyewitness statements, I argued that in 2011 and 2012 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waged a secret war on the governments of Libya and Syria, with the approval of President Obama and the consent of congressional leadership from both parties and in both houses of Congress.

July 29, 2015
Hillary's Illegal War Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Hillary’s secret war

In the course of my work, I am often asked by colleagues to review and explain documents and statutes. Recently, in conjunction with my colleagues Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne, I read the transcripts of an interview Ms. Browne did with a man named Marc Turi, and Ms. Herridge asked me to review emails to and from State Department and congressional officials during the years when Hillary Clinton was the secretary of state.

July 1, 2015
Illustration on the wrongness of declaring government's "right" to free speech by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Protecting hatred preserves freedom

The tragedy of a mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina, last week, obviously motivated by racial hatred, has raised anew the issue of the lawfulness of the State expressing an opinion by flying a Confederate flag at the Statehouse, and the constitutionality of the use of the First Amendment to protect hate speech and hate groups. The State has no business expressing opinions on anything, and it is required to protect hate. Here is the law.

June 24, 2015
What if American Weapons Killed in Benghazi Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: More to Benghazi than officials want to uncover

What if President Obama secretly agreed with others in the government in 2011 to provide arms to rebels in Libya and Syria? What if the scheme called for American arms merchants to sell serious American military hardware to the government of Qatar, which would and did transfer it to rebel groups? What if the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of the Treasury approved those sales?

June 17, 2015
Illustration on continued unconstitutional government spying under the USA Freedom Act by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Freedom Act fails to curtail NSA snooping

Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency's voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government is taking credit for taming beasts of its own creation.

June 10, 2015
Loss of Safety and Freedom Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Spying does not mean security

In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public. They have violated their oaths to uphold the Constitution. They have created a false sense of security. And they have dispatched and re-dispatched 60,000 federal agents to intercept the telephone calls, text messages and emails of all Americans all the time.

June 3, 2015
Section 215 Not Fitting the Patriot Act Puzzle Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Let Patriot Act expire, save the Fourth Amendment

The Patriot Act has a bad pedigree and an evil history. In the fearful days immediately following Sept. 11, 2001, the Department of Justice quickly sent draft legislation to Congress that, if enacted, would have permitted federal agents to violate their oaths to uphold the Constitution by writing their own search warrants. The draft subsequently was revealed to have been written before Sept. 11, but that's another story.

May 27, 2015