Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America

In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of...
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Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America by Mystal, Elie

Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America

$26.99

Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America

$26.99
Author: Elie Mystal
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today-an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate

"Mystal is a grassroots legal superhero, and his superpower is the ability to explain to the masses in clear language the all-too-human forces at play behind the making of our laws." --Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop

In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution reimagines what our legal system, and society at large, could look like if we could move past legislation plagued by racism, misogyny, and corruption. Through accessible yet detailed prose and trenchant wit, Mystal argues that these egregiously awful laws--his "Bill of Wrongs"--continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely.

By exposing the flawed foundations of the rules we live by, and through biting humor and insight, Bad Law offers a crisp, pertinent take on:

  • abortion and the Hyde Amendment, and the role federal funding, or lack thereof, has played in depriving women of necessary health and reproductive care

  • immigration and illegal reentry, and the illusions that have been sold to us regarding immigration policy, reform, and whiteness at large

  • voter registration laws, and how the right to vote has become a moral issue, and ironically, antidemocratic

  • gun control and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and the extreme yet obvious dangers of granting immunity to gun manufacturers

But, as the man Samantha Bee calls "irrepressible and righteously indignant" and Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion calls "the funniest lawyer in America," points out, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a fierce, funny, and wholly original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.




Author: Elie Mystal
Publisher: New Press
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.43w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781620978580


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2025
Publishers Weekly 04/14/2025
Shelf Awareness 04/12/2025

About the Author

Elie Mystal is the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution (The New Press) as well as The Nation's legal analyst and justice correspondent, and the legal editor of the More Perfect podcast on the Supreme Court for Radiolab. He is an Alfred Knobler Fellow at Type Media Center, and a frequent guest on MSNBC and Sirius XM. He lives in New York.


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