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Undated: 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

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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.”
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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.
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“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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