<b>The <em>New York Times</em> bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds</b><BR><BR><p>When Elie Mystal went on <em>The View</em> to discuss the hardcover of <em>Allow Me to Retort</em> and called the Constitution “trash,” the internet exploded. Media from <em>Newsweek</em> to <em>Black News Tonight</em> covered it, and the book shot up bestsellers lists at the <em>New York Times</em>, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and elsewhere. </p><p>Now this “pugnacious and entertaining critique of conservative interpretations of the Constitution” (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>) is available in an affordable paperback edition. In chapters ranging from “Why You Can’t Punch a Cop” and “It’s Not Unusual to Be Cruel” to “Everything You Know About the Second Amendment Is Wrong” and “The Abortion Chapter,” the legal commentator that Samantha Bee calls “irrep