Created Equal: Clarance Thomas in His Own Words Documentary

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Clarence Thomas in his own words
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In hindsight it seems the persecution of Justice Thomas was an early indication of how far the liberal left would go to protect their pro abortion/redefining marriage agenda.
 
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I will never forget how insulting Joe Biden was towards Clarence Thomas during the hearing. I was so naive back then and did not follow politics.
 
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I will never forget how insulting Joe Biden was towards Clarence Thomas during the hearing.
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How so? …
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Have you watched or read the encounter?
Do you still need to ask?
 
I did watch and do remember. And I am still interested in what @7_Sorrows found insulting.
 
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I found his questioning insulting and demeaning.

The look on Biden’s face was so hard and mean. He was trying to be a bigshot.
 
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Oh please. Persecution? He was being considered for a lifetime appointment. The least they could do was ask some pointed questions.

If he thinks he was skewered by false allegations, so be it. But he was not persecuted in those hearings.

Are you familiar with the Fortas confirmation hearings in the sixties?

" South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond, a Republican, emerged as the bombastic frontman of a coalition of senators willing to breach the deep-seated customs governing judicial appointments to sabotage Fortas. Exasperated by repeated failures to neutralize the Warren court’s liberal rulings, they devised a revolutionary strategy that has since become the norm: Obstruct a political rival’s nominees while stacking the court with like-minded jurists.

Shattering long-held norms, Republicans teamed up with Southern Democrats to orchestrate the first filibuster against a court nominee. Claiming Johnson was a “lame duck,” Fortas’ opponents called for the next president to fill the vacancy. Aiming for the jugular, critics labeled Fortas a “crony” for serving as the president’s advisor, tarnished his reputation by pointing to questionable earnings from a teaching position and invited social conservatives to brand him a guardian of criminals and pornographers. In the era’s version of culture wars, Thurmond aired a series of adult movies the court had shielded from censors to underscore Fortas’ purportedly lax morals. The highlight of his performance occurred when, during Fortas’ testimony, Thurmond blindly accused Fortas of encouraging criminals to “commit rapes.” Blindsided by this unanticipated fusillade, Fortas grumbled to Justice William O. Douglas: “All the accumulated venom about practically everything seems to have come to a focus.”

On Oct. 1, 1968, Fortas became the only court nominee to be done in by a filibuster. Seven months later, President Nixon pressured the justice to resign — also a first — by exploiting Fortas’ arrangement with a white-collar criminal who arranged for him to be paid the equivalent of half of Fortas’ annual judicial salary for serving on a foundation board.

Contrary to the prevailing wisdom, it was this imbroglio — and not Bork’s nomination in 1987 — that triggered the modern confirmation wars, transforming the selection of justices into the hyper-politicized, high-stakes contest we live with to this day. "

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Op-Ed: Bitter Supreme Court confirmation battles began 50 years ago over Abe Fortas

Despite an endless stream of bombshells, there was little novelty in the noxious confirmation fights involving Merrick Garland, Neil M.
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If you watch the hearings @dvdjs you might see what I mean. Or you might see Biden as a hero t rying to destroy the dreams of an educated African American conservative hoping to get the nomination on the Supreme Court.

I am sorry after 30 years I don’t have perfect memory of every spoken word during
the hearings. I will say that Joe Biden was so mean he is the only one who made a lasting impression. Other than Thomas and Anita Hill I don’t remember anyone ese who participated. Biden wanted to be a bigshot and very clever and I thought when Clarence Thomas came out and said this is nothing more than a high tech lynching for uppity blacks he was getting back at Biden (who led the hearings)
and the other democrats who sat there.

The democrats pander to the African Americans unless one is conservative and they are never acknowledged for how hard they worked to get where they are.
They are mocked. Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Ben Carson and Condoleeza Rice are some examples.

I was never convinced by Anita Hill whether she was truthful or not. The irony is
Joe Biden led the hearings and now he has been accused of sexual assault and
he thinks saying he has no memory seems to be sufficient.dreams

Clarence Thomas is Catholic. There is a documentary coming out soon about him and he
has witten an autobiography.

Maybe you can watch the hearings online. Yes, Biden made a lasting impression on me - but not a good one.
 
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