Andrew Napolitano

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Napolitano at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC 2010

Andrew P. Napolitano (born June 6, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey ) is an American lawyer .

activities

Napolitano worked until March 2017 as a moderator as well as an expert in law and politics ("legal and political analyst") for Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network , where he was usually called Judge Napolitano or just Judge and mainly answered questions the United States Constitution voiced. On March 21, 2017, the day after the US House of Representatives Committee of Intelligence held a public hearing, Fox News announced that Napolitano would no longer appear on Fox News for the time being. Napolitano has published several books and taught as adjunct professor of constitutional law at the Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark for eleven years . Various newspapers and magazines published his articles including The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Los Angeles Times , St. Louis Post-Dispatch , New York Sun , The Baltimore Sun , New London Day , Seton Hall Law Review , New Jersey Law Journal and Newark Star-Ledger .

In the meantime, he also served as Vice President and General Counsel ( "general counsel") at Hackensack University Medical Center .

Napolitano described himself in 2010 as libertarian , as a follower or supporter of the Austrian School , of natural law (in contrast to legal positivism ) and the right to life movement (“Pro-Life”) as well as a pre- Vaticanum II Catholicism. ("Pre-Vatican-II-Catholic"). Groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center or Media Matters for America assign him to the anti-government and conspiracy-theoretical political right . In 2010, he stood out for claiming on Alex Jones's radio show that the collapse of World Trade Center 7 could not have happened as the official version of the US government claims .

In March 2017, Napolitano speculated on Fox News that Barack Obama had instigated the British secret service GCHQ to spy on Donald Trump . After Trump's spokesman, Sean Spicer, referred to this information, the GCHQ denied in an unusually sharp manner that Napolitano's allegations were nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored. (Nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.) Fox News eventually declared it had no evidence to support the wiretapping allegations and took Napolitano off the program.

Life

While in high school, Napolitano worked as the United States House of Representatives Page for Peter Wallace Rodino . During his college years he was a supporter of Richard Nixon . He received his BA from Princeton University in 1972 , after which he became a senior member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton group . He did his JD in 1975 at the University of Notre Dame . He then practiced as a private law attorney until 1987 .

In 1987 he was named the youngest trial judge at the New Jersey Superior Court by Governor Thomas Kean at the age of 36 ; In 1994, Governor Christine Todd Whitman gave him a lifetime calling. On April 1, 1995, he stepped down to work as a partner in the law firm Robinson, St. John & Wayne, Newark.

In 1995 he began his television career as a weekly legal commentator for Court TV . He held the same role for MSNBC from 1995 to 1997, then from 1998 to 2001 for Fox News Channel . According to his own account, both NBC and Fox were recruited by then CNBC - and later Fox CEO Roger Ailes , who had him first report on the murder trial against OJ Simpson . From 2000 to 2001, Napolitano played the judge on the Power of Attorney court show produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation .

In 1996, Napolitano was a partner in the New Jersey office of the Pittsburgh law firm Reed Smith Shaw & McClay. In 1997 he moved to 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 in 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 April 26, 2006, Napolitano co-hosted with Brian Kilmeade the radio show Brian and the Judge on Fox News Radio , which was started as a replacement for the Tony Snow Show after Tony Snow was appointed press secretary in the White House. Napolitano left the show on June 1, 2010; since then it's called Kilmeade and Friends .

From spring 2009 to February 2012 Napolitano moderated the program Freedom Watch , which initially ran as a webcast on FoxNews.com, has been broadcast weekly since June 2010 and on weekdays since November 2010 on Fox Business Network . Freedom Watch's tenor was downright libertarian and was dubbed Tea Party TV by a New York Times commentator . Guests who appeared on the show included Alex Jones , Lew Rockwell , Ron Paul , Rand Paul , Ann Coulter , Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin , among others .

Fonts

  • 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 .
  • Read the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History . Thomas Nelson, Nashville 2010. ISBN 978-1-59555-266-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andrew Napolitano in the Notable Names Database (English)
  2. ↑ Simon Riesche: Rejection of Trump's conspiracy theories. In: FAZ.net . March 20, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ellen Nakashima, Karoun Demirjian, Devlin Barrett: FBI Director Comey confirms probe of possible coordination between Kremlin and Trump campaign. In: The Washington Post . March 20, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Matt Apuzzo, Matthew Rosenberg, Emmarie Huetteman: FBI Is Investigating Trump's Russia Ties, Comey Confirms. In: The New York Times . March 20, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Tom McCarthy: Russia hearing: Comey says no information to confirm Trump's wiretap claims - as it happened. In: theguardian.com. March 20, 2017, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b bugging allegations against Obama: Fox News takes experts from the station. In: Spiegel Online . March 21, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  7. ^ A b Nick Gillespie: The Born-Again Individualist , in: Reason , March 2005.
  8. ^ A b c d Judge Andrew Napolitano on Chaotic Courts and 'Unconstitutional' Justice in the United States ( August 20, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive ), Interview with Scott Smith for The Daily Bell , June 6, 2010.
  9. ↑ Afterwords with Andrew Napolitano , interview with Ralph Nader on C-SPAN 2s Book tv, from approx. 0:10:27.
  10. ^ Southern Poverty Law Center: The Enablers , in: Intelligence Report , Summer 2010, Issue Number: 138.
  11. ↑ http://mediamatters.org/search/tag/andrew_napolitano
  12. ↑ Jack Mirkinson: Andrew Napolitano, Fox Business Host, Reveals He Is A 9/11 Truther , in: The Huffington Post , November 24, 2010.
  13. ↑ James Rothwell: Who is Andrew Napolitano, legal analyst who first claimed GCHQ was asked to wiretap Trump Towers? In: telegraph.co.uk. March 21, 2017, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  14. ↑ dpa / ds: Donald Trump: Now the British secret service is using unusual means. In: welt.de . March 17, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Steven Swinford: Donald Trump fuels diplomatic row with Britain after apology from US officials over GCHQ wiretapping claims. In: telegraph.co.uk. March 18, 2017, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  16. ↑ David D. Kirkpatrick, " From Alito's Past, a Window on Conservatives at Princeton, " in: The New York Times , November 27, 2005.
  17. ↑ a b Lawrence J. Mone: How Texas Tackled Tort Reform: Taking on Trial Lawyers, Inc. ( Memento October 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Event Transcript, October 8, 2003.
  18. ^ David Stout: New Jersey Daily Briefing; An Offer He Could Not Refuse , in: The New York Times , February 13, 1995.
  19. ^ A b Henry Gottlieb: NJ Appeal Tests Liability of Firms when Contract Partners are Sued , in: New Jersey Law Journal , February 16, 2004.
  20. ↑ Terry Pristin: Mayor Ends Election Challenge; Runoff in Jersey City Is June 24 , in: The New York Times , June 10, 1997.
  21. ↑ Calipari Is South Over Slur , in: The New York Times , July 15, 1997; Richard Sandomir, A Lack of Order In the Court , in: The New York Times , November 6, 1997; Richard Sandomir: Lawsuit Against Calipari Dismissed , in: The New York Times , December 25, 1997.
  22. ^ Henry Gottlieb: His Turn as the Litigant , in: New Jersey Law Journal , VOL. CLXV - NO. 5 - INDEX 405, July 30, 2001, pp. 1-3.
  23. ↑ "Fox News Moves Swiftly to Fill Snow's Slot", AP Online, April 26 of 2010.
  24. ^ Kilmeade and Friends replacing Brian and the Judge on FNR ( Memento of May 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ), Radio Business Report / Television Business Report, May 27, 2010.
  25. ^ Brian Stelter: Libertarian Talk, Now on Fox Business Network , in: The New York Times , June 13, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Napolitano, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Napolitano, Andrew P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark, New Jersey