{"product_id":"bad-law","title":"Bad Law","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781620978580\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Cloth over boards\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Press, The\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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that these egregiously awful laws-his \"Bill of Wrongs\"-continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy exposing the flawed foundations of the rules we live by, and through biting humor and insight, Bad Law offers a crisp, pertinent take on:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eabortion and the Hyde Amendment, and the role federal funding, or lack thereof, has played in depriving women of necessary health and reproductive care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eimmigration and illegal reentry, and the illusions that have been sold to us regarding immigration policy, reform, and whiteness at large\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003evoter registration laws, and how the right to vote has become a moral issue, and ironically, antidemocratic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003egun control and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and the extreme yet obvious dangers of granting immunity to gun manufacturers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, as\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41506864726149,"sku":"PR401982","price":74.6,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/9781620978580_IJiRuqG.original_TNXPP2SAW32M.jpg?v=1769643871","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/bad-law","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}