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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:34 AM Nov 2017

Clarence Thomas Must Resign

Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.

November 28, 2017 2:28 am

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. Bush’s Supreme Court nominee. Hatch was the Republicans’ designated questioner of Anita Hill. She was called to testify because she’d told the FBI that Thomas had sexually harassed her 10 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.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/clarence-thomas-must-resign/


He should never had been put on the bench in the first place

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Clarence Thomas Must Resign (Original Post) turbinetree Nov 2017 OP
Will all those rainin Nov 2017 #1
Oh no that wont be happening BannonsLiver Nov 2017 #2
the only people held accountable are those janterry Nov 2017 #4
A Poor Quality Jurist, In Addition to Sexual Harassment, Thomas Never Belonged on SCOTUS dlk Nov 2017 #3

rainin

(3,011 posts)
1. Will all those
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:41 AM
Nov 2017

sexually abused by Thomas please come forward? Please? This is the time. Thank you, Anita, for your bravery. On behalf of Americans, I'm sorry we weren't ready to act on the truth of what happened to you.

BannonsLiver

(16,387 posts)
2. Oh no that wont be happening
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:41 AM
Nov 2017

Only Dems will be held accountable.

Btw the logic here is lacking. Yeah let’s replace a 70 year old right wing judge with a 45-year-old that’s even further to the right and who has decades of life left. Great plan.

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
4. the only people held accountable are those
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:44 AM
Nov 2017

that admit it.

The republicans, at least most of them, just lie.

(Values, indeed)

dlk

(11,567 posts)
3. A Poor Quality Jurist, In Addition to Sexual Harassment, Thomas Never Belonged on SCOTUS
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:43 AM
Nov 2017

The GOP demanded a right-wing zealot and they got one.

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