October 02, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

CLARENCE THOMAS--NOT FIT FOR THE COURT

Clarence Thomas, with the publication of his new memoir, just gives more evidence of why he should never have been nominated or confirmed to the Supreme Court. Thomas is using this memoir as a payback to the people he claims treated him unfairly during his confirmation hearings. This guy, who has consistently worked against civil liberties, had the nerve to call the hearings a "high tech lynching." Thomas's time on the Court, to put it kindly, has been undistinguished. In the new book he apparently can't lay off Anita Hill, who was his victim I believe, and continues to be his victim. This article by Anita Hill is at www.nytimes.com:

Justice Thomas has every right to present himself as he wishes in his new memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son.” He may even be entitled to feel abused by the confirmation process that led to his appointment to the Supreme Court.

But I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me.

In the portion of his book that addresses my role in the Senate hearings into his nomination, Justice Thomas offers a litany of unsubstantiated representations and outright smears that Republican senators made about me when I testified before the Judiciary Committee — that I was a “combative left-winger” who was “touchy” and prone to overreacting to “slights.” A number of independent authors have shown those attacks to be baseless. What’s more, their reports draw on the experiences of others who were familiar with Mr. Thomas’s behavior, and who came forward after the hearings. It’s no longer my word against his.