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Anita Faye Hill
(born July 30, 1956) is an American lawyer and academic. She is a university
professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at
Brandeis University and a faculty member of the university’s
Heller School for Social Policy and Management.[3]
She became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the
United States Department of Education and the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of
sexual harassment.[4]
In 1991, President
George H. W. Bush nominated
Clarence Thomas, a federal
Circuit Judge, to succeed retiring Associate Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall. Senate hearings on his
confirmation were initially completed[12]
with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the
high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.[13]
There had been little organized opposition to Thomas' nomination, and his
confirmation seemed assured[13]
until a report of a private interview of Hill by the
FBI was leaked to the press.[12][14]
The hearings were then reopened, and Hill was called to publicly testify.[12][14]
Hill said on 11 October 1991 in televised hearings that Thomas had
sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor at the Department of
Education and the
EEOC.[15]
When questioned on why she followed Thomas to the second job after he had
already allegedly harassed her, she said working in a reputable position within
the civil rights field had been her ambition. The position was appealing enough
to inhibit her from going back into private practice with her previous firm. She
said that she only realized later in her life that this ambitious venture was a
poor judgment and also explained that "at that time, it appeared that the sexual
overtures ... had ended."[5][16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill
Some background:
Watch The
Most Outrageous Questions Senators Asked Anita Hill In 1991
September 21 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPnd911FcM
Undated:
Biden initially shared
with the committee, but not the public,
Anita Hill's
sexual harassment charges, on the grounds she was not yet willing to testify.[18]
After she did, Biden did not permit other witnesses to testify further on her
behalf, such as Angela Wright (who made a similar charge) and experts on
harassment.[110]
Biden said he was striving to preserve Thomas's
right to privacy and the decency of the hearings.[107][110]
The nomination was approved by a 52–48 vote in the full Senate, with Biden again
opposed.[18]
During and afterward, Biden was strongly criticized by liberal legal groups and
women's groups for having mishandled the hearings and having not done enough to
support Hill.[110]
Biden subsequently sought out women to serve on the Judiciary Committee and
emphasized women's issues in the committee's legislative agenda.[18]
In April 2019, Biden called Hill to express regret over his treatment of her;
after the conversation, Hill said that the apology was deeply unsatisfactory.[111]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
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September 20:
Anita Hill's Testimony and Other Key Moments From
the Clarence ...
The astonishing testimony aired Ms. Hill’s accounts of crude behavior and vulgar
language, the likes of which had never before been discussed in the buttoned-up
hearing rooms of the United States Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s
dismissive treatment of Ms. Hill by the all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary
Committee
empowered a wave of women to run for state and national office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/anita-hill-testimony-clarence-thomas.html
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April 29:
A Brief Guide to the Joe Biden–Anita Hill Controversy
What did [Joe] Biden do during the hearings?
As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time, it fell on Biden to
preside over the [Clarence Thomas] hearings. Critics of his performance tend to
hone in on three things.
First, he did little to stop members of the committee from attacking Hill. The
Republicans
were the most relentless. Arlen Specter asked her why she didn’t report the
behavior to HR and said that discussing “large breasts” at work was common.
Howell Heflin asked if she was a “scorned woman” and if she had “militant
attitude relative to the area of civil rights” or a “martyr complex.” Charles
Grassley accused her of lifting the pubic hair story from The Exorcist.
Second, Biden failed to call additional witnesses who could have corroborated
Hill’s testimony. One of those women, Angela Wright Shannon,
told Roll Call in 2016 that it was probably a good thing that she
didn’t testify. “I don’t think I could have maintained the grace and dignity of
Anita Hill,” she said. Hill, in 2014, said Biden declining to put the other
witnesses in front of the committee was “a disservice to me” and “a disservice
more importantly, to the public,” as allowing those women to testify would have
“helped the public to understand sexual harassment. He failed to do that.”
Lastly, Biden’s critics say that his own questioning of Hill was unfair, blaming
him for “setting an accusing, skeptical tone and losing control,”
the Washington Post reports. Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law
professor and Hill’s attorney at the time,
told Politico he still blames Biden for mishandling the hearing:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/guide-joe-biden-anita-hill-controversy.html
April 29: Joe
Biden on handling of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas hearings: 'I take
responsibility'
Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate
Joe Biden said he takes “responsibility” for
Anita Hill’s treatment when
she testified before the Senate Judiciary committee during Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing.
“I believed her from the very beginning, but I was chairman. She did not get a
fair hearing. She did not get treated well. That's my responsibility,” Biden
told “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts during an interview on
Monday which will fully air on Tuesday. “As the committee chairman, I take
responsibility that she did not get treated well. I take responsibility for
that.”
Biden went further than he has in previous interviews on the way Hill was
treated when she testified that Thomas sexually harassed her, including on
Friday
during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” when he said he didn’t believe he
personally treated Hill badly.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-handling-anita-hill-clarence-thomas-hearings/story?id=62665298
April 29: Joe Biden Still Doesn’t Understand
What He Did to Anita Hill
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/joe-biden-anita-hill-apology-problem-misunderstand-concern.html
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