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The Michael Steele Podcast

A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution: With Elie Mystal

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Michael speaks with The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal about his new book, "Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution." The pair discuss how the meaning behind amendments have evolved, Ketanji Brown Jackson's influence on the court, how cancel culture fits into the First Amendment, and who the constitution benefits today.

Check out the book here: https://thenewpress.com/books/allow-me-retort

Transcript

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time,

0:10.0

hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

0:13.6

a sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

0:17.9

to the teeth and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

0:22.2

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. Hey everybody I'm Michael Steele. Today I am

0:32.9

joined by Elimistal. He is the nation's legal analyst and justice correspondent and the author

0:40.0

of a new book which opens with the sentence, our constitution is not good. Oh you know we're going

0:46.8

to get into that ish. The book is allowing me to retort a black guy's guide to the constitution.

0:52.9

It's out now. He's a frequent guest on MSNBC where I get to hang out and today he's coming to hang

1:00.1

out with me here on the Michael Steele podcast. We'll be back with our conversation with Elimistal

1:06.0

right after this. I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog

1:15.7

for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen

1:20.6

nose is a sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing

1:24.8

hampsed and heath and you get to the top and you're like oh and then you can see the breath

1:29.4

but then your nose is still freezing to touch. Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

1:38.9

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods

1:46.6

of time, hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

1:51.0

a sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hampsed and heath

1:55.9

and you get to the top and you're like oh and then you can see the breath but then you're

2:00.0

nose is still freezing to touch. Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

2:08.3

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