Post by ck4829 on Aug 9, 2022 4:02:47 GMT
On Roe, Alito Cites a Judge Who Treated Women as Witches and Property
In his recently leaked draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. presents what he sees as his most convincing arguments for permitting legislatures to ban abortion. So what is the best Alito can do? One of his prominent strategies is to repeatedly quote and discuss someone he describes as a “great” and “eminent” legal authority, Sir Matthew Hale.
Most Americans have probably never heard of Hale, an English judge and lawyer who lived from 1609 to 1676. Hale was on the bench so long ago that his judgeship included presiding over a witchcraft trial where he sentenced two “witches” to death.
Nonetheless, we are still living in the world that Hale helped create. And as that witchcraft trial suggests, Hale’s influence has not been a “great” development if you believe women have equal humanity with men.
Hale is best known for his “History of the Pleas of the Crown,” a treatise published posthumously in 1736 that became wildly popular with judges and lawyers in England and America. In my years studying women’s legal history, I have read hundreds of American judicial opinions quoting Hale’s treatise.
www.bunkhistory.org/resources/9954
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Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
In his recently leaked draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. presents what he sees as his most convincing arguments for permitting legislatures to ban abortion. So what is the best Alito can do? One of his prominent strategies is to repeatedly quote and discuss someone he describes as a “great” and “eminent” legal authority, Sir Matthew Hale.
Most Americans have probably never heard of Hale, an English judge and lawyer who lived from 1609 to 1676. Hale was on the bench so long ago that his judgeship included presiding over a witchcraft trial where he sentenced two “witches” to death.
Nonetheless, we are still living in the world that Hale helped create. And as that witchcraft trial suggests, Hale’s influence has not been a “great” development if you believe women have equal humanity with men.
Hale is best known for his “History of the Pleas of the Crown,” a treatise published posthumously in 1736 that became wildly popular with judges and lawyers in England and America. In my years studying women’s legal history, I have read hundreds of American judicial opinions quoting Hale’s treatise.
www.bunkhistory.org/resources/9954
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Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence
Samuel Alito mocks foreign leaders but cites a foreign jurist who believed in witchcraft and thought dreams were evidence