Name: Elie Mystal with Jay Willis
Start: 2025-04-15T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-04-15T19:30:00-07:00
Location: The Wyncote NW Forum

Elie Mystal with Jay Willis

How Overturning Laws Could Help America

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Date:: Tue Apr 15, 2025
Time:: 7:30 pm PDT
Cost:: $10 - $35 Sliding Scale + Optional Book Add-on

Event Audio Video Recording

Venue

: The Wyncote NW Forum
: 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Event Format: In-Person, Livestream

Note: Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.

Headshots of Elie Mystal (with brown skin, grey afro, eyeglasses) and Jay Willis (with fair skin, short brown hair)

Civics

Is there a current law on the books that you disagree with? How about ten?

In Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America, New York Times bestselling author and legal analyst Elie Mystal argues not only that ten pieces of legislation are making life worse for millions of Americans but that they should be repealed completely.

On topics ranging from immigration to gun rights to abortion and religious freedom, Mystal asserts that these are the worst of our ordinances and that the laws by which our nation is governed do not always reflect the will of the people. Dissecting these laws through a critical lens, Mystal also addresses how these laws intersect with and impact race, class, gender, and other social identities.

Even though people in power made these laws, Mystal reasons that these laws can — and should — be unmade. Bad Law aims to examine the status quo and serve as a clarion call for future reform.

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.

Jay Willis is a writer who covers courts, politics, and democracy. He is the editor-in-chief at Balls & Strikes, and was previously a staff writer at GQ magazine and a senior contributor to The Appeal. Before his journalism career, he practiced law at large firms in Washington, D.C. and Seattle.

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