The Nation justice correspondent, frequent MSNBC guest, and all around crazy person Elie Mystal took his book tour to The Breakfast Club podcast on Thursday. The premise for Mystal’s book is the laughable premise that every law passed prior to 1965 is unconstitutional, but also that the constitution is “a piece of crap.”
Mystal began with a terrible analogy, “When South Africa got over apartheid, did they just go back to their Afrikaner racist constitution and be like, ‘Oh, we just need a couple amendments, we just need a couple of changes here to make way.’”
Answering his own question, Mystal continued, “No! They threw the whole thing out and started again, this time asking everybody, this time having a completely new delegation of all the people of South Africa, not just the white folks, but not no white folks, and they came up…