Anita Hill is exactly who we need right now at SCOTUS

[Always Randy]

I do believe that Ginni Thomas can not take the heat and embarrassment of an investigation into the January 6 treason. It could be enough for to make her husband step down if he sees his wife going through a heavy cross examination. A person that is uniquely qualified for SCOTUS is Anita Hill. Biden would be haviing a chance to make amends and the court would be rocketed into a new formation. Dr Hill is 56 years old and i think she has an 30 year term to look forward to.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anita-Hill

[Dem4Life1102]

1. Hill is a conservative

[Popcorn 51]

4. Not to my knowledge.

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She did go to a conservative law school (for a semester) but it was near her home. She commuted. Then she went to Yale.

btw - She more than likely does not consider herself to be qualified for the bench. otoh - She is more qualified that Clarence was.

[Dem4Life1102]

12. Well now you know

She is a conservative and always was.

[Popcorn 51]

15. I actually know her. nt

[Dem4Life1102]

17. And I'm best friends with Beyonc

[Popcorn 51]

19. That is what I thought.

You are making stuff up.

I am not.

[Dem4Life1102]

20. Whatever you say

[mopinko]

40. dont be a jerk.

[Dem4Life1102]

43. I'm not the one

making unprovable claims.

[mopinko]

47. would you make that crack

if someone w a post count like mine said it?
dont harass noobs. it makes du suck.

[Dem4Life1102]

51. Yes I would

[mopinko]

54. good to know.

i doubt that, but...

buh-bye.

[Dem4Life1102]

60. Buh bye

[femmedem]

69. Thank you for this post.

I love people who stand up to bullies.
Especially when it is someone else being bullied.

[mopinko]

71. yeah, but i've been there.

and aint we all?

[LanternWaste]

46. Ten bucks says you fail to see the irony in your having said that.

"There weren't even political parties in the 1700s!!!"

Whatever you say, indeed.

[Dem4Life1102]

52. So there were political parties in 1700?

76 years before there was a United States?
89 years before the constitution was enacted?
What were they?

[Hekate]

57. Britain had a Parliament. They had politics. They had political parties.

[Dem4Life1102]

61. Yes in Britain

What about in America?

[Whiskeytide]

63. Most of settled America was British then. People here ...

... identified with British political parties - if they cared, that is.

[Dem4Life1102]

65. So all that "no taxation without representation" stuff

was just fake news to stir up the masses?

[mopinko]

32. welcome to du

dont mind the ppl who are asses to noobs. they're the minority.

[OregonBlue]

35. Is she a conservative? A right wing conservative or a moderate conservative?

[Popcorn 51]

37. Neither. nt

[femmedem]

70. I don't know her but it's clear from interviews that she isn't conservative.

I mean, she said that of course she would vote for Biden, that she opposes family separation of children at the border which, she reminded the interviewer, was a mainstay of slavery, and she was horrified when Kavanaugh was confirmed.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/politics/anita-hill-2020-democratic-candidates-brett-kavanaugh/index.html

And I do believe you know her. Sorry you are getting some push back, but thank you for persevering.

[Popcorn 51]

73. I am actually shocked at the number of lies

being told about Anita. I am trying to figure out where it is coming from and the motivation. Seems two or three people on here are really pushing it. Not sure what to make of DU.

[SharonClark]

28. Never heard she was s conservative.

Why do you think that?

[StarfishSaver]

29. That was common knowledge

One of the reasons her testimony against Thomas was so compelling.

[SharonClark]

62. Her testimony was compelling because she worked

for Thomas and came to loathe him. She wanted to work on civil rights issues and working for him gave her that opportunity.

[StarfishSaver]

72. Let me explain again

One of the reasons her testimony was compelling was because she was a conservative who shared his views (the reasons she wanted to work with him) and could not be accused of being a liberal shill.

Conservatives like to work on civil rights, too ...

[Dem4Life1102]

38. She worked for the Reagan administration

then taught at an Evangelical university.

[SharonClark]

53. She had a federal job during the Reagan years.

That doesn’t mean she worked FOR the Reagan administration.
She’s been at Brandeis for decades.
Her area of expertise is women’s studios and sexual harassment.
She voted for Biden.

Is there anything she has written or said that proves she is a conservative?

[Dem4Life1102]

59. She had multiple jobs in the Reagan administration

and when she left she taught at Oral Roberts University. And since Bill Kristol voted for Biden, that hardly proves she’s not a conservative.

[SharonClark]

64. Bill C is a self-declared conservative and there are

articles and speeches to back that up.

Are there articles, speeches, or commentary from Hill that back up your claim?

[Dem4Life1102]

66. Her background and

jobs back up my claim. Many conservatives voted for Biden, just because Hill did too doesn’t prove she’s not a conservative.

[StarfishSaver]

2. Anita Hill is 64 years old and a conservative

She was born in 56 - she's not 56.

[rsdsharp]

3. She's 64. She was born in 1956.

She was certainly wronged in the Thomas hearing, but I can’t see that she’s qualified for the Court, “uniquely” or otherwise.

[Always Randy]

6. well

There are no official qualifications for becoming a Supreme Court justice. The Constitution spells out age, citizenship and residency requirements for becoming president of the United States or a member of Congress but mentions no rules for joining the nation's highest court.Oct 8, 2013

[StarfishSaver]

7. Wasn't your point supposed to be that she's fairly young?

No one claimed she's not constitutionally eligible to serve on the Court. We just pointed out that you have your facts wrong and your claim that she's "uniquely qualified" to serve on the Court is without basis - having been sexually harassed by the justice holding the seat you think she should be appointed to makes her unique, but it certainly doesn't make her "uniquely qualified."

[rsdsharp]

11. No! I didn't know that!

After practicing law for 33 years I’d like to see a candidate for the Supreme Court who has at least tried a case as first chair. I’d really like to see a candidate who has served a number of years as a trial and/or appellate judge or be considered a leading expert in at least one area of law — preferably constitutional law, civil or criminal procedure, evidence, tax law, etc.

What is it that leads you to believe she is qualified to sit on the Court, other than the fact that she’s still breathing?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Exactly.

She's been a law professor in Oklahoma since the '80s. She might be a good teacher and knowledgable about her subject matter (contract law), but so are a whole lot of law professors all over the country (I know a few myself). Amy Coney Barrett had been a professor at Notre Dame - not an Ivy League school but more highly-regarded than Oral Roberts U. and the U of Oklahoma - but she had also been a federal judge (whether she deserved that appointment is another question, but at least she had the experience). And Elena Kagan was an academic too, but she was the Dean of Harvard Law School - a far cry from teaching contracts in Oklahoma, which is an entirely respectable career but not Supreme Court material.

[StarfishSaver]

31. Kagan was also Solicitor General ...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

36. That's true. She is the rare exception to the general trend

of appointing federal judges, but her qualifications are equally impressive, if not more.

[SharonClark]

67. Hill joined the faculty at Brandeis in the late 90's.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Anita Hill isn't 56, she's 64.

Also, she hasn't practiced law since the early '80s. She has solid academic creds but there are a lot of much more qualified people. There are far better reasons for choosing a Supreme Court justice than doing it to embarrass one of the other justices or his wife.

[StarfishSaver]

8. Thank you

[csziggy]

9. That was suggested almost thirty years ago

In 1991, the television sitcom Designing Women built its episode "The Strange Case of Clarence and Anita" around the hearings on the Clarence Thomas nomination.[61] The following year, in the episode "The Odyssey", the characters imagined what would happen if new president Bill Clinton nominated Anita Hill to the Supreme Court to sit next to Clarence Thomas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill#In_popular_culture

[LongtimeAZDem]

22. I remember that; they had "He did it" and "She lied" t-shirts :D

[regnaD kciN]

10. I'm not sure anything can "make Thomas step down"...

...if he knows that, by doing so, he'll be handing over his seat to someone who will be opposed to all he has done on the Court over the past decades. I'm not even sure that her being charged with conspiracy to commit sedition (which, in itself, might be a bit of a reach) would be enough to do it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Even assuming she's more qualified for the Supreme Court than others,

which she is not, do you seriously think she'd want to work with Clarence Thomas again?

[cwydro]

14. I think you have her age wrong.

Or maybe your link does. Either way, it’s the wrong age.

I always liked her, and I think she was treated horribly. I know nothing really about her qualifications for the SC, but I’ve begun to think anyone can do anything nowadays...

[Demsrule86]

26. She is a conservative and that is why she worked for Thomas...and she worked for Conservatives

afterwards...have you ever heart her condemn any of the GOP involved...even Arlen Spector?

[Popcorn 51]

42. She worked for the EEOC not Thomas. nt

[SharonClark]

68. Brandeis University is conservative?

That will surprise them.

[leftieNanner]

16. I love the idea

But I think President Biden will nominate younger people to the SCOTUS.

I don't dismiss the value of the giant F*** You to Clarence and Ginny, though.

[flamin lib]

18. Nope. We need to follow the Mitch McConnel plan and confirm

an unqualified 22 year old radical left socialist activist who will be there for the next 70 years.

Just sayin'.

[sarcasmo]

21. Merrick Garland

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. Garland is about to become USAG, quite the professional prize

and probably equivalent in that respect to a Supreme Court appointment.

[sarcasmo]

41. Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment.

[krawhitham]

24. NO, too old

[Demsrule86]

25. No, Anita Hill is conservative and has worked for conservatives and is too old...we need to put

young people on the bench.

[Popcorn 51]

34. What conservatives did she work for? nt

[Demsrule86]

48. There you go.

Hill then became an assistant professor at the Evangelical Christian O. W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University where she taught from 1983 to 1986.[8] In 1986, she joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Law where she taught commercial law and contracts.[9][10]

[Popcorn 51]

50. Her longest employer was Brandeis and UC Berkley.

Neither is a conservative hot spot.

[Demsrule86]

56. She was a conservative that is why she worked for Thomas when he worked for Reagan...

I would not choose her...she has trashed Democrats for years and never said one word about Republicans like Arlen Specter...I would not put her on the court to embarrass Thomas...seriously bad reason.

[SharonClark]

58. Don't you know that a few years at Oral Roberts

early in her career overrules the last 25 years of her life?

[tman]

27. Not Hill, not Garland, not Obama. Move. On.

[StarfishSaver]

33. Thank you!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. The best candidates for most positions are often people we've never heard of.

They are people who have been working quietly and competently behind the scenes; they are often known only to the people who work in the same field and who know they're the real deal. The fact that somebody is well-known and popular in some other capacity, or that they piss off a political adversary, are about the worst possible qualifications for any public office.

[StarfishSaver]

75. Some people think the Supreme Court is a popularity contest

and the seats should go to the most famous or telegenic lawyer they've heard of.

Before their appointments, I doubt most people outside of legal circles could have named Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer or Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

These seats aren't rewards to be given to the person with the most "oomph" or who we think will "stick it to" people we oppose.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

76. Exactly right.

Somebody with a law degree goes on tv and says stuff we agree with, preferably intensely partisan stuff, and all of a sudden it's "Ooh! Ooh! He/she should be on the Supreme Court!! He/she would really piss off the righties!" IIRC, the disgraced former lawyer Michael Avenatti was one of the names that was being briefly kicked around here as being Supreme Court material (he actually wanted to run for president, and some thought that was a good idea, too) - until he turned out to be a grifting ambulance chaser who's about to do a long and well-deserved prison term (something many of us figured out pretty fast but were slagged for pointing it out).

[ecstatic]

39. What about Stacey Abrams? Yale educated attorney

She lacks the experience but makes up for it in common sense. She might not be interested though.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

45. She wants to run for governor of GA again.

[SlogginThroughIt]

49. Gonna scroll on by this one.

[In It to Win It]

55. I'm rooting for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

[Rice4VP]

74. Why would she want to work along side the guy that she accused?

[Tarc]

77. Anita Hill has virtually no courtroom experience

She's a professor and author, not SC material.