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Anita Hill, who had worked with Thomas at the Department of Education and at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, eventually publicly accused him. Here's a look back at how it all went...
Oct 20, 2010 · With a brief voicemail message, the wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has revived the scandalous allegations from 19 years ago that Thomas had sexually harassed former...
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Lawyer and law professor Anita Hill worked as a legal adviser to Thomas during her time at the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights and then later at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. According to Hill, Thomas sexually harassed her repeatedly in both posts, making frequent sexual advances and explicit remarks. The FBI quest...
Thomas’ wife, attorney and conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, has been at the center of many controversies surrounding her husband, starting with claims that Thomas failed to report more than $686,000 in incomethat Ginni earned while she worked at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. She received the paychecks between 200...
In 2009, Ginni founded Liberty Central, a political advocacy group associated with the Tea Party movement, and said she was working to repeal President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act health care legislation, which Ginni called “unconstitutional law.” Two years later, 74 Democratic members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter calling o...
In 2016, lawyer Moira Smith alleged that Thomas had groped her during a dinner party in 1999. She said she was inspired to break her 17-year silence after the release of a video featuring then–presidential candidate Donald Trumpbragging about sexually assaulting women. “This claim is preposterous, and it never happened,” Thomas said of Smith’s alle...
Following Trump’s failed reelection bid in 2020, Ginni repeatedly textedTrump’s former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, embracing various conspiracy theories and urging him to overturn the election results. “Do not concede. It takes time for the army who is gathering for his back,” she wrote in one of the messages. Ginni also messaged at le...
On April 6, 2023, ProPublicareportedthat Thomas and his wife had taken undisclosed luxury trips from Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow for more than two decades and also spent time at Crow’s private resort and exclusive retreats. Thomas failed to list these items on his annual financial disclosure reports, which is required by law for Supreme Court...
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Sep 26, 2018 · In October 1991, Americans were riveted by the spectacle of an all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee questioning Anita Hill, the African-American law professor who had accused Supreme...
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Sep 19, 2018 · CNN — As Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers insist the FBI investigate her allegation of sexual and physical assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, here is a look back at how the FBI...
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Sep 27, 2021 · When Anita Hill accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unwanted advances and lewd comments when she worked for him, she says it changed "just about every aspect" of her life.
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Sep 20, 2018 · In three days of televised hearings that riveted the nation, Anita F. Hill detailed allegations of workplace sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas.
