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Hill v. Thomas: Still Angry After All These Years
By Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily"You called who?" It's difficult to imagine the contours of the marital interaction that surely took place recently between Clarence Thomas, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and his longtime wife, Virginia Thomas, a Tea Party activist and conservative advocate. We will likely never know for sure -- communications between spouses are generally covered from public airing by evidentiary privilege. Did Mrs. Thomas tell her husband in advance of her baffling plan to reach out to Anita Hill and request an apology for the sexual harassment allegations Hill leveled against ...
Clarence Thomas' Wife to Anita Hill: Apologize
By Carl Franzen - AOL News
(Oct. 19) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was narrowly appointed to the bench almost 19 years ago after a notoriously bitter confirmation process in which he was accused, but never found guilty, of sexual harassment by a former colleague named Anita Hill. His wife, Virginia Thomas, has never quite gotten past that ugly episode, it seems. Just last week, she reportedly left a voice mail on Hill's answering machine to the following effect, according to an ABC News investigative report: "Good morning, Anita Hill, it's Ginny Thomas," said the voice, "I just wanted to reach across ...
Kagan Supporters Optimistic on Confirmation
By not in system - AOL News(June 30) -- The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan aren't over yet, but it's hard to escape the impression that, however they'll vote, the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have little else to consider. And there was considerable optimism among Kagan supporters that she'll be confirmed. Yes, there are 24 witnesses on the official list still to be heard. But they'll be squeezed into one more day of testimony, and even that won't start until Thursday at 4 p.m. ET -- the late Sen. Robert Byrd will be lying in state in the Senate until that time, and senators ...
NRA Discourages Board Members From Testifying Against Kagan
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn the eve of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan -- and for the second time in two weeks -- the National Rifle Association (NRA) is under fire from conservatives. According to RedState's Erick Erickson, a prominent conservative blogger, "internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members show that the National Rifle Association's management team has explicitly and directly told the NRA's board they are prohibited from testifying about second amendment issues" during the Kagan hearings. It turns out that during the confirmation hearings for then-Supreme Court ...
Senate Hearings Begin for Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe Supreme Court confirmation hearing for nominee Elena Kagan, which begins Monday at 12:30 p.m. in Room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building, will look familiar to those who have followed the recent parade of High Court candidates to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kagan is the fourth such candidate in five years -- Chief Justice John Roberts (2005) and Justices Samuel Alito (2006) and Sonia Sotomayor (2009) were previously trotted out before the Committee -- so its members are practiced at exercising the Senate's "advice and consent" role under the Constitution. If Kagan is ...
Republicans to Focus on Whether Elena Kagan Would be a Judicial Activist
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee made clear Sunday that they will use confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to zero in on concerns that she would be a judicial activist and bring to the court an "expansionist" view of government. The most serious objections were voiced by Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the committee, who also targeted Kagan's lack of judicial background. Kagan has never been a federal judge and, aside from her tenure as Dean of Harvard's Law School and a clerk for the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, her major positions ...
Republicans Zero In on Kagan's Stance on Military Recruiting at Harvard
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPreviewing one of the issues certain to come up during confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans made clear Sunday that Kagan's actions as dean of Harvard Law School in banning military recruiters would be a major point of contention. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said on ABC's This Week that Kagan's record on the military recruitment issue is "no little bitty matter," while committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), called it "sound and fury signifying nothing." The law school had adopted a policy in ...
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