Elie Mystal

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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Kirkus Reviews

Read a review of Elie Mystal’s “cheerfully profane” Bad Law in Kikrus Reviews.

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Excerpt

Read the introduction to Bad Law.

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Excerpt

Read "The Abortion Chapter" from Allow Me to Retort to learn more about the Supreme Court's history on reproductive rights.

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The Nation

Read an excerpt from Allow Me to Retort in The Nation.

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Books by Elie Mystal

Allow Me to Retort

Allow Me to Retort

A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

Elie Mystal
Bad Law

Bad Law

Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America

Elie Mystal