A few years ago, a neighbor hosted a Constitution Day gathering in her home with a prominent religious leader and invited local friends. In our progressive neighborhood, some treated it as the equivalent of hosting a MAGA rally.

As a law professor who studies the constitutional rights of defendants — and as someone deeply grateful to live in a country that protects those rights — I have often wondered: why do so many today seem to have an allergic reaction to celebrating the Constitution?

When I was a toddler, men with machine guns barged into our home and tore my mother away as I was sitting on her lap. Her crime was raising money for an organization that believed in free speech and freedom of religion — two rights the new Islamic government of Iran had outlawed.

She was taken to a sma

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