Finalist ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksThe New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystals reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal mindsAfter reading Allow Me to Retort I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I donamp8217t understandquantum astrophysics the infield fly rule why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer . . . amp8212Michael Harriot The RootAllow 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 eighteenthcentury 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.amp10amp10amp10amp10You donamp8217t need to be a legal scholar to understand your own rights. You donamp8217t need to accept the amp8220whites onlyamp8221 theory of equality pushed by conservative judges. You can read this book to understand that the Constitution is trash but doesnamp8217t have to be.