For those of us who lived through the confirmation of Clarence Thomas, Nell Scovell has a terrific idea!Minutes after NPR reported that Justice David Souter plans to step down from the Supreme Court, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof updated his Facebook status to ponder a replacement: “I think Obama just might appoint Elena Kagan, his new solicitor-general and the former Harvard Law School dean. She’s young, smart, understands politics as well as law. Who would you like to see him appoint?”Now that's the truth!
Thanks for asking, Nick. I’d like to see President Obama appoint Brandeis University law professor Anita Hill. She’s reasonably young, smart, and—after her ordeal testifying at Clarence Thomas’s 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearing—she certainly understands politics as well as law.
My first day on staff at the NOW action center we headed out for a Stop Souter rally at the Capitol. Thank goodness we were so wrong.
One of the saddest, and most frustrating, days for me during my time with NOW was the day Clarence Thomas was confirmed by the Senate. I kept asking myself how could Senator Biden have let the hearings get so out of control in regard to the testimony of Anita Hill? And how could Senator Arlen Specter have been such a jerk in his line of questions to her?
We fast forward to find Biden as Senate President and Specter as the new-Dem-on-the-block. As the Church Lady might say: "How convenient."
So what do YOU think about having a "Justice" Anita Hill?
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