Posted on 12/02/2020 8:40:29 AM PST by bitt
On July 1, 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to replace the recently retired Justice Thurgood Marshall on the United States Supreme Court.
Bush had made a compromise with the appointment of David Souter to replace longtime Justice, William Brennan. Now Bush knew he would face stiff opposition from the conservative wing of the GOP’s base if he didn’t nominate a judge with a strong background of conservative rulings.
Four years earlier, Judge Robert Bork had his nomination by President Ronald Reagan ruthlessly sabotaged by Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy.
The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that held the Bork confirmation hearings found himself completely overshadowed by the more popular and better-known Kennedy in 1987.
In 1991, four years later, this same Senator, still chairing the Judiciary Committee was eager for his own chance at the national spotlight as he preened and blustered during the Democrat’s latest attempt at thwarting a GOP nomination to the land’s highest court.
As the hearings unfolded, however, it soon became clear it was a mistake to let this particular senator lead the charge against Clarence Thomas.
Unlike Teddy Kennedy, who could rise to the occasion and be a fine orator, the Democrat’s point man in the Thomas confirmation hearings asked confusing questions lectured the nominee in a condescending fashion and rambled through much of the proceedings, unable to score the knockout blow.
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The ghost of high tech lynchings present looks pretty ugly and is everywhere.
The ghost of high tech lynchings future, I don’t want to see.
Thomas will write the majority opinion that will throw the election into the HOR.
An “inside joke” with an idiot. “You and I know, Judge Thomas”. What does the Idiot know? (The Judge knows enough not to roll his eyes on national TV.)
Did you watch the Thomas movie, Biden was as lousy of a speaker then as now. Very convoluted questions, this was before Hill even.
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