<p>Regular MSNBC guest and justice correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal claimed on Tuesday that virtually all laws passed prior to 1965 should be considered &#8220;presumptively unconstitutional.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mystal made the assertion during a conversation on the ABC midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; while discussing his new book, &#8220;Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America&#8221; — and he argued that any law passed prior to the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be thrown out because until that law passed, &#8220;we were an apartheid country.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Guest on &quot;The View&quot; says all laws before 1965 should be ruled null and void: &quot;Why should I give a f*** about some law that some old White man passed in the 1920s?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/x4Y6veWgFg">pic.twitter.com/x4Y6veWgFg</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;One of the laws you write about is playing out right now — the Immigration and Nationality Act,&#8221; cohost Sunny Hostin said. &#8220;Now, this administration is using this statute to justify the detentions and possible deportations, actually, of visa and Green-Card holders who they seek to deem a threat to U.S. foreign policy. What do you make of the administration&#8217;s use of the act, and, more broadly, is Trump really setting up a First Amendment showdown, which is what Whoopi&#8217;s been talking about?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes, absolutely,&#8221; Mystal declared. &#8220;One of my premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional, right? Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived her could vote here.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So why should I give a **** about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s?&#8221; he asked.</p>
<p>Mystal followed up his appearance on &#8220;The View&#8221; with a racially-charged post on X claiming that his book &#8220;seems to have pissed off the white wing so, as usual, I&#8217;m doing something right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mystal often appears on MSNBC, and even joined network host and former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele just two days prior to joining &#8220;The View.&#8221; During that appearance, he claimed that the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens and gang members amounted to &#8220;fascism.&#8221;</p>

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