Posted on 07/02/2005 3:31:32 PM PDT by nwrep
Judge J. Michael Luttig, conservative of the 4th circuit court and one of the most favored candidates cited by conservatives for promotion to the U.S. Supreme Court, played a crucial role in destroying the credibility of Anita Hill during the Thomas confirmation hearings of 1991:
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Senate Democrats, after persuading Anita Faye Hill to testify about charges of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, offered the University of Oklahoma law professor little protection from a slashing campaign orchestrated by the White House to impugn her character and portray her as a perjurer after she testified Friday.
The Democrats' performance indirectly contributed to the apparent success of the Republican effort to discredit Hill.
Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, blamed senators of both parties for putting on a hearing "that reminded me of a trial where someone accuses someone else of a sexual offense and then an attempt is made to destroy the character of the victim."
The GOP blitz, hastily organized by White House aides after what they considered devastating testimony by Hill last Friday, was judged so successful at the White House that sources who earlier had feared disaster were confidently predicting Monday night that the Senate will confirm Thomas when it votes at 3 p.m. PDT today.
An Administration official confirmed that the hard-line tactics were adopted late Friday. "It was pretty dismal around here," the official said. "She was quite credible. She put on a good show, and it was difficult to come to terms with."
Among those who were hastily recruited to help was J. Michael Luttig, considered one of the brainiest Administration appointees in the Justice Department. It was only two months ago that the Senate confirmed Luttig's nomination as a judge on the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Luttig, a former special assistant to former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, has not yet resigned his post as assistant attorney general in charge of legal counsel.
Does the name Paula Jones ring a bell?
Projectorman.
even though anita hill had no credibility.
at all.
If only one of his women had used her knee to ring his bell.
GREAT research.
I really like Luttig.
Shameless is the word that comes to mind.
Isn't that fantastic!! Is it possible to get an online cite for this..Let's get this one around..LOL
The left would prefer to forget that Anita Hill was not working for Clarence Thomas when she related her sexual harrassment story to her friend.
Well, Luttwig just shot near the top of my list of prefered candidates for the court. :-)
And I think we all noticed the same B.J. Quote. LOL
REALLY felt threatened, eh?
That's unbelievably funny!
Check your freepmail.
And true ...
Luttig worked with Sen David Boren and others to get that nomination through. Took Sen Boren a short time after Clinton took office to resign and become OU President where he managed to get Anita Hill to quit the OU Legal faculty. He never matched the money for the endowed chair donated by women's groups because of her hatchet job on Clarence Thomas. After he finally got her to resign, he returned the money -- no Anital Hill chair for OU. She left OU in a huff but it sure pleased me to no end.
All those who defended Clinton should apologize to Thomas.
It needed repeating..
She needed to feel wanted. Sarcasm off
Among all the charges and counter charges surrounding the Thomas-Hill fight, did anyone else but me notice that there wasn't a single person who knew both of them who supported Hill? Every single witness who knew them both supported Thomas.
That clinched it for me that she was lying.
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