As an allegation surfaced accusing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of groping a young lawyer in 1999, social media responded by connecting the dots. Moira Smith, now vice president and general counsel to Enstar Natural Gas Co., in Alaska wrote on Facebook about her encounter with Thomas at a dinner party. “He groped me while I was setting the table, suggesting I should sit ‘right next to him,’ ” Smith wrote in a Facebook post Oct. 7.
Thomas refuted the Smith incident in a statement released through the Supreme Court’s spokeswoman.
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