The Federalist BY: MARK PAOLETTA
Since the Hill-Thomas hearings, the left has pushed a baseless story that Joe Biden unfairly treated Anita Hill. This is balderdash.
Reporter April Ryan recently asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki whether President Biden has consulted Anita Hill on his Supreme Court nomination process for replacing retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. There are many reasons Biden would not do this, starting with the fact Biden thought Hill lied in her allegations against Clarence Thomas.
Also, Hill has long criticized Biden for the way he allegedly treated her during Thomas’s shocking 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Why would he consult her?
As a senator, Biden chaired those Thomas-Hill hearings. After Thomas testified, Hill claimed Thomas had sexually harassed her when she worked for Thomas at the Department of Education and then at Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Yes, that’s right, Anita Hill, a Yale-educated lawyer, actually followed her alleged harasser to another job.
