Instant New York Times Bestseller MSNBC legal commentator Elie Mystal thinks that Republicans are wrong about the law almost all of the time. Now, instead of talking about this on cable news, Mystal explains why in his first book. “After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don’t understand—quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer . . .” —Michael Harriot, The Root Allow Me to Retort is an easily digestible argument about what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away, and how to stop them. Mystal explains how to protect the rights of women and people of color instead of cowering to the absolutism of gun owners and bigots. He explains the legal way to stop everything from police brutality to political gerrymandering, just by changing a few judges and justices. He strips out all of the fancy jargon conservatives like to hide behind and lays bare the truth of their project to keep America forever tethered to its slaveholding past. Mystal brings his trademark humor, expertise, and rhetorical flair to explain concepts like substantive due process and the right for the LGBTQ community to buy a cake, and to arm readers with the knowledge to defend themselves against conservatives who want everybody to live under the yoke of eighteenth-century white men. The same tactics Mystal uses to defend the idea of a fair and equal society on MSNBC and CNN are in this book, for anybody who wants to deploy them on social media. You don’t need to be a legal scholar to understand your own rights. You don’t need to accept the “whites only” theory of equality pushed by conservative judges. You can read this book to understand that the Constitution is trash, but doesn’t have to be.

 #法律 #NYTimesBestseller  #社會議題  《紐約時報》暢銷書作者、《The Nation》法律專欄主筆，美國當代最敢言的法律觀察者 一出版即連續兩周登上紐約時報非虛構類排行榜！ 「不陷於左派內部的自我消耗，而是直指關鍵問題，提供可實踐的行動指南。」─Publishers Weekly 在號稱民主與自由的體制下，法條本應保護人民的權利，卻往往成為壓迫與歧視的工具。艾利・米斯托以犀利又深具幽默感的筆調，揭露十條至今仍主導美國政治與社會結構的「惡法」——這些看似合法的制度設計，實則鞏固了種族、性別、階級與政治權力的壟斷。 他稱這些為「錯誤法案清單 Bill of Wrongs」，並透過法律專業與平易近人的語言交織，帶領讀者看清制度背後的操控與虛偽，探討例如： -    限制女性生育自主權的《海德修正案》 -    對非法移民加重懲罰的「非法再入罪」，加劇對拉丁裔與亞裔移民的獵巫式打壓 -    阻礙少數族群投票權的「選民註冊法」，成為「民主」之名下的不民主手段 -    為槍械產業開脫責任的豁免法案，導致槍枝暴力無解 《美國十大惡法》不只是對美國社會的深刻反省，也讓我們思考：當法治變成統治，誰來監督法律本身的正當性？當制度以「安全」、「秩序」為名，掩蓋其不公與歧視時，我們是否有勇氣看穿與改寫？ 米斯托認為：「法律不是天降神諭，而是人寫的，我們也有能力重新書寫它。」在這個對公共討論與公民權益愈加敏感的年代，本書是一帖清醒劑，也是一份行動指南。