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A rare eyewitness account of the Bury St Edmunds trial of two widows from Lowestoft, Suffolk, accused of witchcraft is up for sale

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. I’ve been trying to think of the right metaphor to describe the U.S. Supreme Court’s last term. I would settle on “train wreck.” The major problem with the characterization of train wreck is the fact that most train...

Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape by Ken Armstrong When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito,...

Justice Alito’s leaked opinion cites Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist whose writings and reasonings have caused enduring damage to women for hundreds of years.

Justice Alito’s leaked opinion cites Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist who conceived the notion that husbands can’t be prosecuted for raping their wives, who sentenced women to death as “witches,” and whose misogyny stood out even in his time.

This article first appeared at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a draft opinion…

Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape.

Maybe we can do better for legal theory in 2022 than a guy who practiced law under Charles I.