Torture, rotating judges and prosecutors and incarceration for a generation without charges or trial are all hallmarks of an authoritarian government, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
American Authoritarianism
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Independence From Empire Day 2025
The former American republic is now an empire, the type of government from which Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues violently seceded, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
US Supreme Court Affirms the Imperial Presidency
Justices stripped federal judges of their authority to protect people throughout the U.S. when the president breaks the law, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Black People & US Birthright Citizenship
If the definition of citizenship is changed by executive order, there is nothing to prevent Trump or any other president from defining citizenship anyway they choose, writes Margaret Kimberley.
Michael Brenner: Over the Brink
The perilous U.S. attack on Iran is the culmination of a projection of America’s own existential dread.
Enforcing Silence
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today.
US Domestic Spying & the 4th Amendment
Government officials — local, state and federal — are trampling the natural right to privacy, argues Andrew P. Napolitano.
A 21st Century Stamp Act
Andrew P. Napolitano on returning to the dark days of pre-revolutionary law enforcement due to the Constitution’s failure to protect the quintessentially American right to be left alone.
The Bogus Habeas-Corpus Argument
Suspending the right to challenge the legality of one’s detention in court would shred a core tenet of the Constitution, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Hocus Pocus, There Goes Habeas Corpus
Andrew P. Napolitano on the American heritage of a legal right that was recognized by even the most tyrannical and absolute of monarchs in Britain.