The live action movie made that more obvious, but the animated film he's less awful. And everything else is standard for the time.
If you are gonna confront a noble, its gotta be a mob or nothing.
An asylum for "crazy old maurice" vs declaring him possessed by the devil and killed is pretty forward thinking for French peasants.
It'd be really interesting to see the correspondence between the Supreme Court members and the White house in a probe to determine targeted and politically motivated harassment.