{"product_id":"bad-law-elie-mystal-9781620978580","title":"Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate snark to a brilliant takedown of ten incredibly bad pieces of legislation that are causing way too much misery to millions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"If it were up to me, I'd treat every law passed before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as presumptively unconstitutional. The government of this country was illegitimate when it ruled over people who had no ability to choose the rules.\" \u003cbr\u003e--from the introduction to \u003ci\u003eBad Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Elie Mystal may not endorse \u003cem\u003eany\u003c\/em\u003e laws created before all Americans were entitled to vote for our lawmakers, in \u003cem\u003eBad Law\u003c\/em\u003e he hones in on ten of what he considers the most egregiously awful laws on the books today. These are pieces of legislation that are making life worse, not better, for Americans, and that--he argues with clarity, eloquence, and paradigm-shifting legal insight--should be repealed completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\t\u003cp\u003eOn topics ranging from abortion and immigration to voting rights and religious freedom, we have chosen rules to live by that do not reflect the will of most of the people. With respect to our decision to make a law that effectively grants immunity to gun manufacturers, for example, Mystal writes, \"We live in the most violent, wealthy country on earth not in spite of the law; we live in a first-person-shooter video game because of the law.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, as the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eAllow Me to Retort\u003c\/em\u003e points out, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a marvelous and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elie Mystal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 162097858X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620978580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Elie Mystal","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46140980953343,"sku":"9781620978580","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5253633b-9260-44fc-bb3d-016b08beb913.jpg?v=1726597587","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bad-law-elie-mystal-9781620978580","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}