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In reply to the discussion: Clarence Thomas says marriage equality ruling should be overturned [View all]emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)get Hill a hearing against Republican resistance, voted against Thomas, twice, and was not among the members who vocally discredited her during the hearings. Biden has been on record as always championing her credibility, which yes, given her complaints fell 1O years later and that she had maintained a relationship of sorts with Thomas, were easy to discount.
Simpson, Grassley, Specter, Heflin were the ones she should have been speaking out against next to Thomas who cynically misappropriated painful Black history to his own case when he called the hearings a high tech lynching,thereby shutting down the white male Dems on the committee except for Joe who got in some jabs.
Edward Kennedy was all but not present.
Neatly, Republicans had handed a kind of Sophies choice to Dems in nominating Thomas, a hyper conservative, to fill Thurgood Marshalls seat. Thomas became only the second Black person in
history to go on to the Supreme Court.
At the time, this hearing and its outcome was never a case of Biden vs. Hill, but deconstruction has
afforded absolute freedom with the truth to anti-Biden folks.
Get a transcript or see what you can of the hearings on YouTube. I watched them in the context of the times. No, Hill did not have a great many black people in her corner. Thomas had many more.
Biden comes away far better than other Dems and miles from the sick stuff Heflin threw Hills way.
Biden was not her defense attorney. Her defense of herself, her own credibility, she understood out the gate would be required. She was not very effective, which is understandable.
What is not is why she blames Biden more than those who harassed and humiliated her.