Andrew P. Napolitano

Government attacks on private property

A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement.

May 21, 2025

What if freedom is suspended?

What if the writ of habeas corpus has been guaranteed to the British since 1215 and to Americans since 1789?

May 14, 2025

Can Trump restore the constitutional limits on domestic spying?

Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the "wall" between federal law enforcement and federal spies.

May 7, 2025

The arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan and an assault on the separation of powers

Last week, the FBI arrested a Wisconsin state judge as she was walking into the courthouse where she works.

April 30, 2025

Pope Francis may have been the worst pope in history

A little over a year ago, I spent a week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

April 23, 2025

Having faith in Jesus’ resurrection

To believe that Jesus is God and man is to take Easter seriously.

April 16, 2025

Trump’s tariffs raise constitutional questions about presidential taxation power

President Donald Trump has recently imposed a national sales tax on nearly all goods emanating from outside the United States to be paid by the ultimate consumer.

April 9, 2025

Taking the Constitution seriously

The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 to establish a new central government and limit it.

April 2, 2025

A brief history of the freedom of speech

We have hired a government to protect our speech, not to tell us how to live.

March 26, 2025

Civil liberties under fire: Zealous immigration enforcement bypasses constitutional safeguards

The history of human freedom is long, tortuous and not gratifying.

March 19, 2025

My weekend in Moscow

When an invitation to visit Moscow arrived in my inbox, it was the culmination of a series of emails and telephone calls from Russian-American friends giving me a heads-up.

March 12, 2025

Understanding the existence of truisms and recognizing their origin in nature

The world is filled with self-evident truths -- truisms -- that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proved.

March 5, 2025

Trump dismantling a ‘government by experts’

I have often thought that Woodrow Wilson was our worst president after Abraham Lincoln. By worst, I mean least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty.

February 26, 2025

DOJ’s bribery of New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Can the Justice Department, which sought and obtained an indictment of Mayor Eric Adams on bribery charges, use its own bribery to influence the mayor's judgment on policy decisions?

February 19, 2025

The myth of emergency powers

President Trump, in one of his freewheeling chats with the press, offered last week to declare an emergency at the Texas-Mexico border.

February 12, 2025

Tariffs and the Constitution

The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress.

February 5, 2025

Trump’s secret deal on zero-click spyware puts Americans’ privacy at risk

In 2021, to his credit, President Joe Biden warned the American public against the dangers of zero-click spyware manufactured by an Israeli corporation.

January 29, 2025

TikTok and freedom of speech

Today, no law means whatever the court says it means. That happened last week when the Supreme Court upheld congressional legislation silencing TikTok.

January 22, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard’s flip-flop on warrantless searches

When she was a member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard fiercely defended personal privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment.

January 15, 2025

Killing the U.S. Constitution at Guantanamo

Guantanamo Bay, which costs $500 million a year to operate, once held 780 prisoners, allegedly there due to their involvement in the war on terrorism. Not one of them has been convicted of 9/11 crimes.

January 8, 2025