1991 newspaper CLARENCE THOMAS CONFIRMED as US SUPREME COURT JUSTICE - Joe Biden

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1991 newspaper CLARENCE THOMAS is CONFIRMED as US SUPREME COURT JUSTICE - Joe Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary confirmation committee
1991 newspaper CLARENCE THOMAS is CONFIRMED as US SUPREME COURT JUSTICE with Senator Joe Biden presiding as chairman of the Judiciary Committee
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Chicago Sun-Times
(IL) dated Oct 16, 1991. This original newspaper contains a banner headline, photos, and coverage of
CLARENCE THOMAS being CONFIRMED as a JUSTICE on the US SUPREME COURT. The chairman of this controversial hearing was US Senator JOE BIDEN.
On July 1, 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court of the United States to replace Thurgood Marshall, who had announced his retirement. The nomination proceedings were contentious from the start, especially over the issue of abortion, and many women's groups and civil rights groups opposed Thomas on the basis of his conservative political views, as they had also opposed Bush's Supreme Court nominee from the previous year, David Souter.
Toward the end of the confirmation process, sexual harassment allegations against Thomas by Anita Hill, a law professor who had previously worked under Thomas at the United States Department of Education and then at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were leaked to the media from a confidential FBI report. The allegations led to a media frenzy about sexual harassment, and further investigations. Televised hearings were re-opened and held by the Senate Judiciary Committee before the nomination was moved to the full, Democratic-controlled, Senate for a vote. Thomas was confirmed by a narrow majority of 52 to 48.
On October 6, 1991, after the conclusion of the confirmation hearings, and while the full Senate was debating whether to give final approval to Thomas's nomination, NPR Supreme Court correspondent Nina Totenberg aired information from a leaked Judiciary Committee/FBI report stating that a former colleague of Thomas, University of Oklahoma law school professor Anita Hill, accused him of making unwelcome sexual comments to her when the two worked together at the Department of Education (ED) and then at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In the same FBI report, Thomas testified that he had once promoted Allyson Duncan over Hill as his chief of staff at the EEOC
It was shortly after the president selected Thomas as his nominee that Democratic committee staffers began hearing rumors that Thomas had in the past sexually harassed one or more women, and in early September that committee chairman Joe Biden asked the Bush White House to authorize an FBI investigation into Hill's charges. FBI agents interviewed Hill on September 23, and interviewed Thomas on September 25. Notwithstanding the allegations, Biden saw no reason to postpone the committee's scheduled vote on Thomas's nomination.
After Totenberg's story aired, Biden quickly came under pressure to reopen the hearings, from House Democratic women, and from various groups that had opposed the Thomas nomination earlier in the process. As a result, the final Senate vote on the nomination was postponed and the confirmation hearings were reopened. It was only the third time in the Senate's history that such an action had been taken (and had not been done since 1925, when the nomination of Harlan F. Stone was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee). Amid the resulting frenzy the president declared that he had "total confidence" in his embattled nominee.
He was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit at the time of his nomination to the Court. President Bush had appointed him to that position in March 1990.
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