Andrew Napolitano

Andrew Napolitano is an American former judge, born in 1950, who sat on the New Jersey Superior Court from 1987 to 1995 after being appointed by Governor Thomas Kean, becoming the state’s youngest then-sitting Superior Court judge. He was an analyst at Fox News from 1997, latterly as senior judicial analyst, until 2021. He is a libertarian and has written Constitutional Chaos (2004), The Constitution in Exile (2006), A Nation of Sheep (2007) and Suicide Pact (2014). He now hosts the YouTube programme Judging Freedom, which has become one of the main venues for the non-interventionist analysts this site tracks.

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Where they stand

A short read of where Andrew Napolitano lands on each front we follow, drawn from their recent appearances and refreshed whenever they turn up in a debrief.

Iran

No admirer of Antony Blinken, but endorsed his judgement that the war could and should be over tomorrow, introducing the clip with the line that even a stopped clock is right twice a day and concluding that for once Blinken was making sense.

as of 2026-09-17

American power

Narrating the map of American bases in the Gulf, he says Washington has not been able to prevent any of what has happened and has utterly failed to defend the states that host it, and puts the resulting question to his guests directly: is the United States their friend, or the instrument of their destruction?

as of 2026-09-17

Recent appearances

Prof. Mohammad Marandi: the US is now the Gulf’s worst enemy

Judging Freedom · 2026-09-17