Anita Hill has never really been one for compromise.
The lawyer‘s decision not to do so first propelled her into public life nearly three decades ago, with sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas in his 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings. And she doesn‘t intend to begin compromising now.
“You have to understand that what we need is not just to take the lesser of two evils,” Hill told NPR on Tuesday, an hour before she took the stage to accept her at the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala in New York City.
These days, Hill and heads up the . But those Senate Judiciary Committee hearings have never quite disappeared in her rearview mirror since Thomas — who has long denied the allegations — was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Now, the hearings are back in the news because the senator who led them, Joe Biden, recently tossed his hat — and, nearly in the same breath, expressed his regret for how Hill was treated in 1991.
Source: Easton Caller