Andrew Napolitano
Andrew P. Napolitano ( born June 6, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American lawyer.
Activities
Napolitano is currently working as a presenter and an expert in law and politics ( "legal and political analyst" ) for Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, where he is usually referred to Judge Napolitano or just Judge and concerning mainly on questions of constitutional of the United States expresses.
Napolitano has also published several books and taught for eleven years as an Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark. In addition, he has published in various newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the St. Louis Post -Dispatch, the New York Sun, The Baltimore Sun, the New London Day, the Seton Hall Law Review, the New Jersey Law Journal and the Newark Star-Ledger.
In the meantime, he also served as Vice President and General Counsel ( "general counsel" ) at Hackensack University Medical Center.
Napolitano describes himself as a libertarian, as a follower or supporter of the Austrian school of natural law (as opposed to legal positivism ) and the pro-life movement ( "Pro -Life " ) as well as pre- Vatican II Catholic. ("Pre -Vatican II catholic "). Groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center or Media Matters for America assign it to the anti-government conspiracy theories and political rights. Most recently, he was in this respect in that it alleged in a radio program of Alex Jones, the collapse of building 7 World Trade Center would not be able to carry as it is the official version of government.
Life
During his high school years Napolitano worked as a United States House of Representatives Page for Peter Wallace Rodino. During his college years he was a supporter of Richard Nixon. His B. A. he made in 1972 at Princeton University, after which he was a leading member of the group Concerned Alumni of Princeton. His J. D. he made in 1975 at the University of Notre Dame. He then practiced as a lawyer until 1987 for Private Law.
In 1987 he was appointed by Governor Thomas Kean with 36 years to date for most recent trial judge on the New Jersey Superior Court; In 1994 he received from Governor Christine Todd Whitman, the vocation for life. On April 1, 1995, he resigned to serve as a partner in the law firm of Robinson, St. John & Wayne to work in Newark.
In 1995, he began his television career as a weekly commentator on legal issues for Court TV. He held for MSNBC from 1995 to 1997, then from 1998 to 2001 for Fox News Channel The same function. According to the company, the recruitment was made both on NBC and Fox. By former CNBC and later Fox CEO Roger Ailes, the first on the murder trial of OJ Simpson let him report From 2000 to 2001 Napolitano played the judge in the court show Power of Attorney, which was produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
In 1996, Napolitano partner in the Pittsburgh law firm Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, New Jersey office. In 1997, he joined the law firm Sills Cummis Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross in Newark. In the same year he represented the then Mayor of Jersey City Bret Schundler as part of his re-election and the New Jersey Nets and their coach John Calipari. From 2001 he worked for the law firm Epstein Becker & Green in Newark. In 2004 he was a partner in the law firm Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding in New York.
From 26 April 2006, Napolitano hosted with Brian Kilmeade radio show Brian and the Judge on Fox News Radio, which was launched as a replacement for Tony Snow Show, after Tony Snow was appointed as press secretary in the White House. Napolitano left the mission on 1 June 2010; since they called Kilmeade and Friends.
Since the spring of 2009 until February 2012 Napolitano hosted the show Freedom Watch, which ran initially as a webcast on FoxNews.com, was aired on weekdays since June 2010, and a week since November 2010 on Fox Business Network. The tenor of Freedom Watch was emphasized libertarian and was described by one commentator for the New York Times as Tea Party TV. Among the guests that have occurred in the program were for example Alex Jones, Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
Writings
- Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws. Thomas Nelson, 2006. ISBN 978-1-59555-040-8.
- The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the land. Thomas Nelson, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59555-070-5.
- A Nation of Sheep. Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59555-097-2.
- Dred Scott 's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America. Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59555-265-5.
- Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History. Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59555-266-2.