The honor this week is Judge Thomas and his rehashing and lashing out on the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas saga [he called Ms. Hill a "left winger."] 16 years ago. Ms. Hill wrote her own Op-Ed this week and still stands by her testimony 16 years ago in the Senate hearing.
From his interviews this week: The level of hostility is striking. He grew up fearing the Ku Klux Klan, he says, but “my worst fears had come to pass not in Georgia, but in Washington, D.C., where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.” Yeah, O.K...
Here is some interesting information about Thomas' Supreme Court appointment:
On July 2, 1991 President George H.W. Bush nominated Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall who had recently announced his retirement. Marshall had been the only African American justice on the court. The selection of Thomas preserved the existing racial balance of the court, but it was seen as likely to move the ideological balance to the right.
American Bar Association's (ABA) rating for Judge Thomas was split between "qualified" and "not qualified." The ABA, however, has no official standing in the nomination or confirmation process.
Liberal organizations including the NAACP, the Urban League and the National Organization for Women opposed the appointment based on Thomas's criticism of affirmative action and suspicions that Thomas might not be a supporter of the Supreme Court judgment in Roe v. Wade. Under questioning during confirmation hearings, Thomas repeatedly asserted that he had not formulated a position on the Roe decision.
Some of the public statements of Thomas's opponents foreshadowed the confirmation fight that would occur. One such statement came from activist Florence Kennedy at a July 1991 conference of the National Organization for Women in New York City. Making reference to the failure of Robert Bork's nomination, she said of Thomas, "We're going to 'bork' him."
The term has since become a part of the American political lexicon. Liberals have generally used the term to mean defeating conservative nominees for allegedly being "out of the judicial mainstream"; conservatives, conversely, use it to describe what they consider unscrupulous tactics to derail the nominations of nominees unacceptable to left-leaning interest groups.
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He need a shrink and some meds. He sees dead people and is still in love with Anita Hill. Once he's kicked out of the Supreme Court he'll be a man with on people. He's living in hell on earth right now. At lease we know he isn't qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice he's still winging it.
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