James C. Phillips is an attorney in private practice and a non-resident fellow at Stanford Law School's Constitutional Law Center. He earned his J.D. in 2014 and has a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC-Berkeley.
A too-broad interpretation of the Constitution’s free-speech clause protects things that have nothing to do with speech and makes other clauses superfluous.
As with its passages on religion, the Second Amendment, or the role of the courts, the Constitution’s command on racial discrimination is relatively clear.
Unless the right to bear arms is put on a par with the rest of the Bill of Rights, the coming wave of gun-control laws may swamp a core constitutional ...
Kennedy’s strained efforts to conjure forth a right to abortion from a spare constitutional text resulted in confused, even mystical definitions of privacy.