Senior Judicial Analyst, FOX News
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) unleashed demons that now seem beyond the government's control.
Leaking privileged information helps keep the powerful accountable, but it also undermines the president's ability to do his job.
The unseen government within the government has so much data on Americans that it can reward or punish at its own discretion.
The president has the right to set policy, and the judiciary has the duty to prevent the trampling the rights of an unpopular minority.
The federal judge who halted President Trump's travel ban overreached.
Trump's gutting of Obamacare is a breeze of freedom on a sea of regulation.
To make things more convenient for the government, the Obama administration makes it easier for agencies to spy on citizens.
"Hacking" and "leaking" are two different things, and the distinction is significant.
The constitutional conflict between states and the federal government over undocumented immigrants.
President-elect Donald Trump reignites a long-settled argument.
It's not irrational to have lost faith in government.
Publishing Donald Trump's tax returns and Hillary Clinton's emails is in the public interest.
Both 2016 presidential hopefuls believe in the primacy of the state over the individual.
Sacrificing liberty in times of fear will not keep citizens safe.
When the Secret Service does the bidding of the two major political parties, free speech is abridged.
The Democratic nominee's problems with personal honesty are a feature of her personality, not a bug.
FBI Director James Comey fails to understand that extreme recklessness is gross negligence.
If the government can take away our natural rights to travel and self-defense, can other fundamental rights be far behind?
The modern-day massacres are proof beyond a doubt that the government cannot protect us.
The FBI thinks the constitutional right to privacy is a pain in the neck and they'd prefer to do without it.
The Democratic frontrunner is painted as stubborn, self-isolated, and unaccountable in IG's report.
Lawyers representing the federal government have lied to the courts in a number of recent cases.
President Obama's foreign policy advisor admits he lied to Congress and the public about Iranian nuclear negotiations.
The FBI interrogated five of the former secretary of state's closest advisors, the same week it was reported that her private email server had been hacked.
Clinton had characterized the FBI's investigation as "routine," but the DOJ now refers to it as a "law enforcement proceeding."
The USA Freedom Act provides cover for unconstitutional searches of citizens.
Is the president enforcing laws not as Congress wrote them, but as he wishes them to have been written?
The president characterizes his former secretary of state's use of a private email server as "careless," but under the law it's negligence.
Politicians ignore the economic consequences of central planning and hope voters will reward them for it.
The presumptive Democratic nominee faces a prudent legal but treacherous political decision.
How the arrest of an anti-communist Catholic priest in the 1940s explains Donald Trump's right to free speech.
The secretary of state turned 2016 presidential candidate is smart, shrewd, and experienced enough to recognize a state secret when she sees one.
There's been a relentless barrage of bad legal news for Clinton lately.
The DOJ has persuaded a judge to issue a search warrant for a thing that does not exist, by forcing Apple to create a key that the FBI is incapable of creating.
Law students jokingly called him the pope of originalism, a phrase he loved.
All major candidates in both major political parties promise a federal government that can right any wrong.
Politically, Clinton has lost the final argument in her public arsenal-that she did not recognize top-secret data unless it was marked as top secret.
It seems that every week, more information comes to light about Clinton's grave legal woes.
The failure to safeguard state secrets is an area of the law in which the federal government has been aggressive to the point of being merciless.
The president is without authority to negate the congressional will, and any attempt to do so will be invalidated by the courts.
Take Judge Andrew Napolitano's quiz about the year ahead.
Who could run a household or a business the way the feds have run the government in the past 100 years?
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While we've been fixated on Trump, federal prosecutors continue to examine Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
No-gun zones like the one in effect where the San Bernardino shooting took place are not only unconstitutional but also an invitation to disaster.
Though Section 215 of the Patriot Act has expired, the NSA's other authorities to spy have not.
It is in times of fear when we need to be most vigilant about our liberties.
Can the president write his own laws or procedures? In a word: No.
