Napolitano to address Republican dinner

Judge Andrew Napolitano will be featured speaker at the Lincoln/Reagan Dinner, to be held Thursday, Feb. 11, at the River Oaks Event Center, 520 E. Kaliste Saloom Road.

A senior legal analyst for FOX News, the judge will also sign copies of his book following the dinner.

The event is being presented by the Acadiana Republican Women and Lafayette Republicans.

"Judge Napolitano is a passionate patriot, a scholar and a fierce defender of the Constitution," said Carol Ross of the ARW.

Judge Napolitano was graduated from Princeton University in 1972 and from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1975. He is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the state of New Jersey.

For 11 years, Judge Napolitano was an adjunct professor of law at Seton Hall Law School, where he taught constitutional law and jurisprudence, and was voted most outstanding professor in three different academic years.

He has been an analyst with FOX News since 1998, broadcasting weekdays on "The Big Story." He co-hosts "Fox & Friends" and is a regular on "The O'Reilly Factor." He co-hosts "Brian and the Judge," heard daily nationwide on FOX Talk Radio.

A nationally sought after lecturer, he has been featured as a writer in many newspaper and in the Seton Hall Law Review and the New Jersey Law Journal.

He has published four books, including "Constitutional Chaos," "A Nation of Sheep," "The Constitution in Exile" and his latest, "Dred Scott's Revenge." His Lafayette appearance will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a reception, followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $50 per person. VIP tables for eight are $600. Mail checks to ARW, P.O. Box 51937, Lafayette LA 70505.

Proceeds will go toward an ongoing grassroots voter registration/voter switch campaign and voter education in support of Republican candidates in the 2010 elections.

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