The former vice president said he regretted he “couldn’t . . . get her the kind of hearing she deserved,” although he was in charge as head of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991.
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow March 28 at 11:24 AM Former vice president Joe Biden is under increasing pressure from women’s rights groups, prominent African American leaders and other supporters of Anita Hill to acknowledge his personal responsibility for his handling of the 1991 confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Hill, who is black, faced accusatory and deeply skeptical questioning from the all-white, all-male Judiciary Committee when she testified that Thomas had repeatedly made unwanted sexual advances toward her as her supervisor at the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Thomas denied the allegations.
“He said at one point, ‘If you see this happening and you stand by, you’re a coward,’” Dittmar said. “But the biggest critique of his behavior in the hearings was that the men in the room were treating Anita Hill with a high level of disrespect and scrutiny that I think many feel was undeserved and unfair, and he didn’t step in in the way people would have hoped.”
Last fall’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, during which Christine Blasey Ford testified that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her decades ago, brought renewed attention to the way the Senate Judiciary Committee handles such accusations. “We’re not here to dictate how an apology works,” she said. “What we’re most concerned about is, how do we make sure things like that don’t happen again?”
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