Do You Believe Her Now?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

It’s time to reexamine the evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court — and to talk seriously about impeachment.

By Jill Abramson

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/the-case-for-impeaching-clarence-thomas.html

On the same fall night in 2016 that the infamous Access Hollywood tape featuring Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault was made public by the Washington Post and dominated the news, an Alaska attorney, Moira Smith, wrote on Facebook about her own experiences as a victim of sexual misconduct in 1999.

“At the age of 24, I found out I’d be attending a dinner at my boss’s house with Justice Clarence Thomas,” she began her post, referring to the U.S. Supreme Court justice who was famously accused of sexually harassing Anita Hill, a woman who had worked for him at two federal agencies, including the EEOC, the federal sexual-harassment watchdog.

“I was so incredibly excited to meet him, rough confirmation hearings notwithstanding,” Smith continued. “He was charming in many ways — giant, booming laugh, charismatic, approachable. But to my complete shock, he groped me while I was setting the table, suggesting I should ‘sit right next to him.’ When I feebly explained I’d been assigned to the other table, he groped again … ‘Are you sure?’ I said I was and proceeded to keep my distance.” Smith had been silent for 17 years but, infuriated by the “Grab ’em by the pussy” utterings of a presidential candidate, could keep quiet no more.

Tipped to the post by a Maryland legal source who knew Smith, Marcia Coyle, a highly regarded and scrupulously nonideological Supreme Court reporter for The National Law Journal, wrote a detailed story about Smith’s allegation of butt-squeezing, which included corroboration from Smith’s roommates at the time of the dinner and from her former husband. Coyle’s story, which Thomas denied, was published October 27, 2016. If you missed it, that’s because this news was immediately buried by a much bigger story — the James Comey letter reopening the Hillary Clinton email probe.

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1. Hope to get both Thomas and trump out with the new Dem congress in Nov.

[UpInArms]

2. Thomas is unfit to serve on the USSC

eom

[Lucky Luciano]

3. IOKIYAR. nt

[BobTheSubgenius]

4. God Damn It!

I just knew Anita Hill was telling the truth, way back when. Yes I believe her now, just as I believed her then.


God Damn It!

[Cha]

5. Yes I believe Moira Smith..

Oh that Thomas could be brought down by his own sexual misconduct

[Hekate]

8. Yes, I always believed Anita Hill

[Cha]

9. Oh yeah!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. I didn't know about Smith

The NYT article was the first I'd read about Moira Smith. (Don't have a Lexis account, so can't read Marcia Coyle's report of Smith's story). Two credible stories surely are enough for inquiring minds.

I remember the viciousness that Anita Hill faced. What it felt like was that they wanted their man on the Supreme Court, regardless.

[Cha]

12. I didn't know about her story,

either, Hermit.

As the article said.. It came out when Comey broke his bogus news about another Hillary email.

This is really important news.. It should help vindicate Anita Hill for any who might have been skeptical.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. they grilled her

Her opening statement:

Piles of videos:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Anita+Hill+testimony+youtube&t=hf&iax=videos&ia=videos

[argyl]

6. I never doubted that Anita Hill was telling the truth.

Would love to see him getting tossed off the Supreme Court for sexually harassing Ms.Hill, Ms.Smith and no doubt others.
Geez, with his bud Scalia gone he must really be a waste of space. How many years has it been since he’s said anything on the bench? And clearing his throat doesn’t count.

[Cha]

14. Wonder what Ginny, his teabagger wife,

thinks of grabby hands?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. The odds that any woman would put herself through what Anita Hill went through

for any reason other than the truth are extremely low.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. cringe-worthy

I remember watching that and wanting to punch her inquisitors through the tv. Never doubted that Thomas was a sneaky, entitled bully.


May the idea of impeaching him take wings. Or ride the MeToo wave. I ain't proud.