Anita Hill says she was ‘shocked’ by Senate Judiciary’s ‘racist and sexist attacks’ on Jackson
by Sarakshi Rai - 04/07/22 12:47 PM ETAnita Hill wrote in a Thursday opinion piece for The Washington Post that the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was a “shameful spectacle.”
Hill said that “the confirmation process is broken and the panel must act to restore people’s faith in it.”
Hill, who in 1991 accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her, said, “I was subjected to attacks on my intelligence, truthfulness and even my sanity when I testified about my experience working for the nominee at the Education Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.”
“In a spectacularly low moment, senators sought out slanderous statements from my former students,” she added.
Hill, a professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at Brandeis University, said that despite her own treatment, she was “shocked” by the interrogation of Jackson, who she said was a nominee with “stellar credentials” and more judicial experience than any of the sitting justices when they were nominated.
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