Last fall, I sat down with Steven T. Collis, a research fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, to speak about his book on religious freedom cases, Deep Conviction.
We spoke about Espinoza v. Montana scheduled for oral arguments this week. In many quarters the case is being framed as the most recent flare up in the culture wars. But the details under debate in the actual case involve considerable additional nuance that most coverage is missing. Below is my conversation with Collis about what makes this case unique, and how far we can reasonably go in picking it apart along the familiar right/left divide.
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