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I'm Tanya Moseley.
My guest today, legal scholar Elie Mistahl, says if it were up to him,
every law passed before 1965 would be deemed unconstitutional.
From his view, before the Voting Rights act, the US was basically an apartheid state.
Mestal's new book, Bad 10 Popular Laws that Are Ruining America,
mixes humor with deep analysis to argue that our laws on immigration,
religious freedom, abortion and voting rights are actually making life worse than better.
They've caused, he argues,
massive social and political harm and don't reflect the will of most Americans.
Ellie Mistahl is a legal analyst and justice correspondent for the Nation and the legal editor of the More Perfect podcast on the Supreme Court for Radiolab.
He's also an Alfred Knobbler Fellow at Type Media center and the author of Allow Me to A Black Guy's Guide to the constitution.
And Ellie, Ms. Stahl, as you always seem to do,
you've made this subject both funny and informational.
So we'll be laughing today to keep from crying.
Thank you so much for this book and welcome to FRESH air.
Thank you so much for having me, Tanya.
Okay, so in each chapter of the book, you give an analysis of a law that you say is ruining America.