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In the days before Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1991, he was known primarily as a black conservative who did not support affirmative action. Its legal and effective otherwise docket gave a few leftovers was also known, and was indeed the whole point: The country has recently embarked on an era in which judicial candidates (and their sponsors) were terrified of a term new kind - a verb in common usage took the past participle, "borked." The term today involves a fierce campaign to discredit a candidate before and during the confirmation process, but more particularly - as in the case of Robert Bork, whose nomination convicted created the term - which implied that the candidate had been too loose lips expressing their thoughts on the Constitution. Those like confident and articulate in their opinions as Bork has been, so it was considered, as it could have been delivering, sharp pointed sticks his opponents. (It could also be argued that Bork, for all his controversial legal theories, was prepared as soon as David Letterman said it looked like Victor Buono, the portly actor, with a goatee who had played King Tut in the old Batman TV series. but the word "Daved" never took.) This, in any case, was the scene in which Thomas appeared before the Senate. Then Anita Hill, a professor of black law at the University of Oklahoma, who had worked with Thomas, came forward and testified to a pattern of sexual harassment. (Most notably, she said, once she took a can of Coca-Cola and asked, "Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?") This was beyond Borking - this was nuclear. Thomas, who had so little to say for itself suddenly facing a path that no one will want. The national debate that followed, which ended with Thomas on the bench and Hill retired from a media storm, was probably the most heated moment, deeply felt political development until 2000, when the Supreme Court heard Bush v. Gore (in which Judge Thomas voted with the majority)People Review: Kerry Washington Scandal Stars like Anita Hill in the HBO series Confirmation
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In the days before Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1991, he was known primarily as a black conservative who did not support affirmative action. Its legal and effective otherwise docket gave a few leftovers was also known, and was indeed the whole point: The country has recently embarked on an era in which judicial candidates (and their sponsors) were terrified of a term new kind - a verb in common usage took the past participle, "borked." The term today involves a fierce campaign to discredit a candidate before and during the confirmation process, but more particularly - as in the case of Robert Bork, whose nomination convicted created the term - which implied that the candidate had been too loose lips expressing their thoughts on the Constitution. Those like confident and articulate in their opinions as Bork has been, so it was considered, as it could have been delivering, sharp pointed sticks his opponents. (It could also be argued that Bork, for all his controversial legal theories, was prepared as soon as David Letterman said it looked like Victor Buono, the portly actor, with a goatee who had played King Tut in the old Batman TV series. but the word "Daved" never took.) This, in any case, was the scene in which Thomas appeared before the Senate. Then Anita Hill, a professor of black law at the University of Oklahoma, who had worked with Thomas, came forward and testified to a pattern of sexual harassment. (Most notably, she said, once she took a can of Coca-Cola and asked, "Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?") This was beyond Borking - this was nuclear. Thomas, who had so little to say for itself suddenly facing a path that no one will want. The national debate that followed, which ended with Thomas on the bench and Hill retired from a media storm, was probably the most heated moment, deeply felt political development until 2000, when the Supreme Court heard Bush v. Gore (in which Judge Thomas voted with the majority)
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