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Do We Still Have a Constitution?
by RPI Staff | Jun 11, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins RPI Board Member Judge Andrew Napolitano's "Judging Freedom" program to discuss how Congress skirts its Constitutional obligations while exceeding its Constitutional authority. They also discuss the riots in Los Angeles and the use of...
Government Attacks on Private Property
by Andrew P. Napolitano | May 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
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. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the...
Holes in the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | May 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
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. The wall was erected in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which statutorily limited...
Arresting a Judge
by Andrew P. Napolitano | May 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last week the FBI arrested a Wisconsin state judge as she was walking into the courthouse where she works. The feds had alerted the media -- but not the judge -- to this event, and they arrived and recorded the arrest. The standard and preferred practice when...
The Circumvention of Habeas Corpus
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
The most profound and ominous aspect of the controversy surrounding the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García to El Salvador is that the Trump administration has figured out a way to circumvent the right of habeas corpus, not just for foreigners but also for the...
Tariffs and the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Apr 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
“No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of [the Constitution’s] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.”-- Ex Parte Milligan, Supreme Court of the United States, 1866....
Trump’s Third Term
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
The pundits are having a difficult time understanding how President Trump would fulfill his expressed desire to serve a third term as president. Some of them have fallen back on the possibility that he is joking and just trolling his critics. Others have come up with...
Trump Tariffs Demonstrate Presidency Without Constitutional Bounds
by Adam Dick | Apr 3, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The tariffs President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday are massive in size and scope, Indeed, some early analysis indicates Trump has raised the United States average tariff rate to higher than did the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 that contributed to the...
Taking the Constitution Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Apr 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new central government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are direct, some are subtle, and some are hidden. The chief instrument of limitation is the separation of powers, the brainchild of James...
DOJ Deploys ‘Antisemitism Task Force’ to Four US Cities as Part of Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Protests
by Dave DeCamp | Mar 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
The US Department of Justice said Thursday that its recently created “Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism” will be heading to four US cities as part of the Trump administration’s broad crackdown on college protests critical of Israel. The DOJ said the...
Donald Trump and Government by Experts
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship -- during which the federal government...
Tariffs and the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts” of the federal government. Indeed, in order to emphasize the location of...
Shoot the Drones!
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
The skies over New Jersey have been littered with strange flying objects during the past two weeks; and the feds are either hiding the truth from terrified folks on the ground or scratching their collective heads along with the rest of us. Since early December, there...
When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Dec 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch. It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on...
This Is How It Begins: The Deep State Wants to Terminate the Constitution
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Nov 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
This is how it begins. This is how it always begins, justified in the name of national security. Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution, at...
War and the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in...
Who Cares What the Government Thinks?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution -- which would become known as the Bill of Rights -- he insisted that the most prominent amendment among them restrain the government from interfering with the freedom of...
‘No Kidding! No Joke!’ Liberals Call on Biden to Commit Unconstitutional Acts in his Final Days
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
With the end of the Biden Administration in sight, liberal pundits seem to be striving to prove that the only difference between a lawbreaker and a law-abiding citizen is the ability to get away with the crime. Popular figures on the left from Michael...
Taking Rights Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jul 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,and only one person were of the contrary opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.”-- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The...
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