Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Bizarre Op-Ed on RFRAs: He argues that RFRAs are unconstitutional

National Review ^ | 04/06/2015 | Ed Whelan

[OneWingedShark]

Agreed.

[subterfuge]

Whoa! News to me! Thanks...I guess..

[Redbob]

“Judge” Andrew Napolitano is a talking head, and no more a judge than I am.

Maybe he once was, like I was once a high school student; I don’t call myself that anymore, though.

[conservative98]

Wow. Just lost a little respect for him. He is also pro the 14th amendment granting citizenship to anchor babies

[VideoDoctor]

Napolitano is irrelevant because he is usually budy being a pandering Libertarian.

If I need any judicial opinions I'll stick with the opinions of Judge Jeanine.

[VideoDoctor]

Napolitano is irrelevant because he is usually busy being a pandering Libertarian.

If I need any judicial opinions I'll stick with the opinions of Judge Jeanine.

[highball]

There's a disturbingly large contingent of conservatives willing to sacrifice constitutional limits when it aligns with their particular ideals [supporting the patently contraconstitutional War on Drugs, for example].

Indeed.

I firmly believe that conservatism exists on a spectrum, with libertarianism on one side and authoritarianism on the other. There are very few on either extreme, but most of us live in an uneasy space in the center. We must balance our hard-won and God-given liberty against legitimate interests of the state.

It's hard to deny that the War on Drugs lacks any Constitutional foundation (even Prohibition needed an Amendment to be legal). But that doesn't mean there shouldn't be any regulations or limitations at any time, except in the straw-man arguments of our more-authoritarian brothers.