Clarence Thomas

He's baaaaaaaaaack! No, seriously. News was recently released that, after nineteen years, Clarence Thomas's wife placed a call to Anita Hill in order to get an apology for what she said in the confirmation hearings of 1991. What she should have realized it would stir up everything, again. For those of you who have no memory of what happened, or just weren't around to see it, back in 1991, Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States. A woman named Anita Hill charged him with harassing her, among other things. He was confirmed, 52 to 48. Lillian McEwan has, for the first time, given an interview, none other to the Washington Post. And in this interview, she appeared to confirm what Ms. Hill said all those years ago. And just what was said? That Mr. Thomas was obsessed with pornography and that he made suggestive comments to his female colleagues, both of which he has denied. McEwan then went a step further, saying Mrs. Thomas may not have known the full facts when she demanded an apology from Ms. Hill. So why didn't she say something back then? Well, according to Ms. McEwan, there are a couple reasons. First, even after they broke up, she was friends with Mr. Thomas. Secondly, she said, she suspected that neither Thomas nor Hill was being completely honest in their testimonies. People who believed Ms. Hill said that this is her vindication. Some have even gone so far as to say if Joe Biden hadn't restricted the testimony to just those who worked with him, but had instead expanded it to people who were social with him, Thomas would never have been confirmed. Look, it's too late to get rid of him, it's old history. Let's just let things be. He'll be there until he dies or retires, and to me, death is more likely.