{"id":1473399,"date":"2022-05-12T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T21:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473399"},"modified":"2022-05-12T17:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T21:14:43","slug":"back-to-the-salem-witch-trials-cnn-trots-out-alito-classmate-from-50-years-ago-to-attack-him-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/back-to-the-salem-witch-trials-cnn-trots-out-alito-classmate-from-50-years-ago-to-attack-him-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Back To The Salem Witch Trials\u2019: CNN Trots Out Alito Classmate \u2014 From 50 Years Ago \u2014 To Attack Him On Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fback-to-the-salem-witch-trials-cnn-trots-out-alito-classmate-from-50-years-ago-to-attack-him-on-air%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473399&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1134321120.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN brought out Susan Squier, who graduated from Princeton with Justice Samuel Alito 50 years ago, to attack the conservative justice over his recently-leaked early decision draft.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/clarence-thomas-speaks-out-on-draft-leak-says-court-cant-be-bullied\/\">draft<\/a>, which indicated that the Supreme Court might be poised to overturn two landmark abortion rulings \u2014\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em> \u2014 has sparked outrage among Democrats and left-leaning pundits, and has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/psaki-says-there-is-no-official-u-s-government-position-on-activists-protesting-outside-scotus-justices-homes\/\">protests<\/a> at the Court and at the private homes of individual justices.<\/p>\n<p>Squier, now a professor at Penn State University, said that she had been so angry that she helped to organize a group letter \u2014 signed by herself and some of the other women in Alito\u2019s graduating class \u2014 attacking her former classmate, and she joined anchor John Berman on CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day\u201d to discuss the draft that she claimed had left her \u201cstunned\u201d and \u201cangry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I have read a lot of medical history going back, for doing literature and medicine, and his is like a greatest hits of misogyny,\u201d she said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t consider the context. And this man was a historian at Princeton. He was a double major in history and Poli sci. But it is as if he doesn\u2019t believe history actually involves a record of things changing. Instead, it is history as, \u2018let\u2019s go back to the Salem witch trials.\u2019 It makes me so angry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Squier\u2019s letter, which was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/paw.princeton.edu\/inbox\/response-alito-72-defense-womens-rights\">Princeton Alumni Weekly<\/a> and signed by 28 of her classmates (along with seven others listed as \u201cfriends of the women of \u201972\u201d), stated that the undersigned were \u201cdeeply shocked\u201d and complained that the draft would \u201creverse the strides we thought we were making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask our classmates, and the community of Princeton, to protest the logic that ties us to a constitutional originalism which resists any movement toward justice but, rather, moves us backwards. As Jill Lepore so aptly put it in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, \u2018Women are indeed missing from the Constitution. That\u2019s a problem to remedy, not a precedent to honor,&#8217;\u201d the letter continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose of us who went to Princeton have a privilege of having gone there, we can get listened to. So, we have to speak for the women who cannot get listened to, the women who are going to be massively impacted \u2014 I hate that word \u2014 by this horrible new decision,\u201d Squier told Berman to wrap up the segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN brought out Susan Squier, who graduated from Princeton with Justice Samuel Alito 50 years ago, to attack the conservative justice over his recently-leaked early decision draft.The draft, which indicated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1482773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}