It is an “inappropriate overreach” for federal officials to file additional charges against Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, retired Judge Andrew Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Newsmax, said Friday.

“This is an old-fashioned, forgive me, classic, first-degree murder,” said Napolitano on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America,” explaining that Mangioni is accused of following Thompson and waiting for him before firing shots.

“It’s horrific, but it has nothing to do with the Constitution and nothing to do with the federal government,” said Napolitano. “If the feds can federalize every single street crime, then we don’t have a federalist system in America where the states are in charge of public safety and the feds are in charge of national issues. There is no national issue here involved, no federal issue involved in the execution of this CEO.”

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