Anita Hill: Biden's judiciary committee could have started the MeToo movement in 1991
Law professor Anita Hill wrote Thursday in an op-ed that the Me Too movement against sexual misconduct could have begun decades earlier if the Senate Judiciary Committee, then chaired by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, had given her a fair hearing when she accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
“If the Senate Judiciary Committee, led then by Mr. Biden, had done its job and held a hearing that showed that its members understood the seriousness of sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence, the cultural shift we saw in 2017 after #MeToo might have began in 1991 — with the support of the government,” she wrote.
Hill applauded professor Christine Blasey Ford’s courage for testifying about her allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh, and ripped then-Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley’s “callous and ham-handed” handling of the issue. While committee Republicans sought to avoid a replay of Hill’s testimony, bringing in outside, female counsel to question Blasey Ford, Hill contended their efforts fell short.
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