The Constitution hasn’t worked as well for African Americans as it has for whites—a reality not lost on the people in the streets crying out against the killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, and too many others by law enforcement officers and those acting as police.

That was the takeaway from a keynote conversation with Judge Theodore McKee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a virtual town hall hosted by the National Constitution Center at Independence Mall in Philadelphia conducted via Zoom on June 5.