Judge Andrew Napolitano |
Judge Andrew Napolitano – author, nationally known expert on the Constitution and Fox News senior judicial analyst – debuts today as a WND weekly columnist.
A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School, Judge Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the state of New Jersey. He sat on the bench from 1987 to 1995, during which time he presided over 150 jury trials and thousands of motions, sentencings and hearings. He taught constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School for 11 years, and he returned to private practice in 1995. Judge Napolitano began television work in the same year.
As Fox News' senior judicial analyst, Napolitano broadcasts nationwide on the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network throughout the day, Monday through Friday. He hosts "FreedomWatch" on Fox Business Network seven days a week. The judge's clear and piercing legal analyses have had an inestimable effect on fellow hosts and Fox viewers as he looks at public-policy proposals of both the left and right in light of the Constitution.
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Judge Napolitano also lectures nationally on the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, civil liberties in wartime and human freedom. He has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications, and today begins as a syndicated columnist with Creators.
The judge is the author of five books on the U.S. Constitution, including his most recent, "It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom."
He is also the author of "Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception In American History," "Constiutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks its own Laws," and "The Constitution in Exile."
Napolitiano writes in his debut commentary: "It is the purpose of this column to address the seen and the unseen, to argue for the primacy of the individual over the state and to help foment a reawakening of the natural human thirst for freedom.
"Let me spend some time with you in the privacy of your own thoughts. Let me take you on a wild ride through the annals of freedom in America. As you read the pages of these forthcoming columns, ask yourself if, at each turn, we are closer to freedom or slavery, if the majesty of the law really means what it says, and why – why – it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. You'll be educated and agitated, but you won't be disappointed."
Napolitano's column will appear every Thursday on WND's commentary page. Read his first column for WND, "Is freedom in America a myth or a reality?"