Anita Hill, whose sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas nearly derailed his Supreme Court nomination 16 years ago, said Tuesday she stood by her account of his behavior, disputing Thomas' assertion in his new book, "My Grandfather's Son," that the charges were politically motivated. "I stand by my testimony," Hill wrote in an Op Ed piece in The New York Times . "I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me."
October 03, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Anita Hill, whose sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas nearly derailed his Supreme Court nomination 16 years ago, said Tuesday she stood by her account of his behavior, disputing Thomas’ assertion in a new book that the charges were politically motivated.
“I stand by my testimony” at a 1991 Senate Judiciary hearing on the nomination, Hill wrote in an Op Ed piece in The New York Times. “I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me.”
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