The Man Behind the Texas Abortion Ban Now Has an Even More Radical Plan to Reshape American Law – Mother Jones

…Mitchell's ideas could have vast repercussions for more than reproductive rights, legal experts warn. The notion that old laws don't go away and can be resuscitated is "awfully curious in a country where old law legalized segregation, slavery, sexual abuse and rape of wives," said Michele Goodwin, a legal scholar at the University of California, Irvine, who focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and race. Many of these old laws, she pointed out, "subordinated people who were not white males." If Mitchell and his allies were to succeed, she said, the result would be to resurrect a version of the country as it existed 200 years ago, when "White men controlled every branch of government in every state."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/jonathan-mitchell-the-mastermind-of-the-texas-heartbeat-statute-has-a-radical-mission-to-reshape-american-law/