Clarence Thomas must resign
Utah Republican Orrin Hatch called bullcrap on Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown last week. The Senate Finance Committee lion tore into Brown for spewing that the Republican tax plan to transfer a trillion dollars to the rich was in reality a Republican tax plan to transfer a trillion dollars to the rich.
I got my first dose of Hatch during the wall-to-wall coverage of the confirmation of Clarence Thomas, George H.W. Bushs Supreme Court nominee. Hatch was the Republicans designated questioner of Anita Hill. She was called to testify because shed told the FBI that Thomas had sexually harassed her ten years earlier, when he was her boss at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Education.
Sitting behind her were her mother, Erma (who is going to be celebrating her 80th birthday); her father, Albert; her sisters, Elreathea, Jo Ann, Coleen and Joyce; and her brother, Ray. No way she was going to lie to the committee, or to us, in front of them.
Hill testified that Thomas had repeatedly asked her out, and that she repeatedly refused. So he demeaned her. He told her someone had once put a pubic hair on his Coke can. He said porn star Long Dong Silver had nothing on him in the endowment department.
Hatch called her charges contrived and sick. He claimed shed stolen them. The pubic hair, shed taken from page 70 of The Exorcist. Long Dong Silver, shed lifted from a Kansas sexual harassment case.
Hill agreed to a polygraph test, and passed. Thomas refused. He called the hearings a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/28/clarence-thomas-must-resign_partner/
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Anita Hill told the truth. He should never, ever been allowed on the court. His wife is beyond the pale. imo
Shame on all those who voted to confirm his nomination.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)He is there to rubber stamp the oligarch agenda and the racist agenda, against POC.
If he woke up in a pool of blood in a bed with 12 teen age boys, he would not resign.
These types never do the right thing.
Now Al Franken will probably lose reelection for taking a bad taste photo.