Handmaid’s Coming to a City Near You

I know this had been written about ad nauseum, but in order to free my body of the anger, outrage and pure disbelief I have, needed to add to the articles regarding this travesty of justice al la the ‘supreme court’.

How far back will they go to prove their case? I guess we’ve already gone as far as we can when you take into account that Hale, the writings of whom were brought up by Alito when he was forming his arguments, was a man who was instrumental in charging witches, among other things.

“Hale’s legacy also includes his deep skepticism of rape accusations. Although he called rape a “most detestable crime” that ought “to be punished with death,” Hale believed that rape is “an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent.”

“One of the things Hale helped embed in the law is this intense suspicion of women,” Hasday said. “This premise that women who claim to be raped are liars, and the idea that proving rape should be extraordinarily difficult because you just can’t rely on women.”

Hasday said Hale’s suspicion of women extends to his handling of witchcraft cases. In Bury St. Edmunds in 1662, Hale presided over one of England’s most notorious witchcraft trials, which resulted in the hanging of two older widows, Amy Denny and…