Judge Napolitano: Obama Wants Shutdown to Be as Painful as Possible

Judge Andrew Napolitano stopped by Fox & Friends to discuss the controversy surrounding WWII vets being denied entry into the D.C. memorial due to the government shutdown.Then again, the judge pointed out that the shutdown hasn't stopped surveillance operations at the NSA.

With some help from members of Congress, the elderly vets eventually did bypass the barricades, but Napolitano believes President Obama wanted this shutdown because it helps him politically.

Like with the sequester, Napolitano said the Obama administration wants the shutdown to be as painful as possible, and has the ability to "increase the pain or decrease the pain" on the American people.

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Barack Obama Can Be Indicted as War Criminal If He Strikes Syria - 9/9/13

9/9/13 - Fox News - The pressure to strike Syria is really heating up for President Obama (even if there now appears to be a way out), but it might not necessarily be legal to do so. Judge Andrew Napolitano reiterated as much to Shepard Smith on Tuesday, saying this time that if Obama strikes Syria, he could very well be declared a war criminal by the European Union.

Napolitano walked through all the ways the United States could exercise authority under international law, from a retaliatory attack to preempting a "dangerously imminent" attack on American soil. Even intervening when a nation has violated an international agreement they are partner to is okay, the problem being that Syria never signed the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Napolitano warned that if Obama proceeds anyway, the consequences could be particularly dire for him.

"The president runs the risk of being declared a war criminal by a magistrate in the EU.... If they indict him as a war criminal, an indictment for which there's no statute of limitations, after he leaves the White House, he can't go to Europe for fear of having to confront this."

Judge Andrew Napolitano on The War in Syria

Crisis In Syria - Judge Andrew Napolitano Weighs In On War Powers Resolution Act - America Live



The terms in the resolution that sound the alarm are "necessary and appropriate." I do not want ground troops in Syria, and I don't want regime change. The last thing our country needs is an open-ended war in the Middle East. It is time for the House to draw up the articles of impeachment.