In 1991, President Bush appointed conservative African-American Judge Clarence Thomas as justice, but the Senate Judiciary Committee received evidence from University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill during a background check inquiry that Thomas had served as his judge a few years earlier. Sexual harassment during the superior period.
At the appointment hearing, the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee were unfair, selectively listening to testimony, making reckless comments that attacked the witness's character, and even though Hill voluntarily did and passed the polygraph, they also blocked other witnesses from participating, and by Democratic lawmakers led by Deng made little response to the tactics.
The reason why Professor Hill did not tell the truth immediately after the incident, like other victims, was to avoid these humiliations and influences. She went home and received numerous letters from women expressing their personal experiences.
As a matter of fact, Thomas successfully passed the appointment and has served as a justice to this day. The following year's congressional elections saw a significant increase in the number of women elected.
Sexual harassment and assault have nothing to do with nationality, race, or political affiliation, but how you deal with them makes a difference between what political party, what culture, and what country you are.
Trump was elected in 2016. In the 2018 midterm elections, as of May, 72 women had won the House primary, including 62 Democrats. In November 1990, only 69 women won the party.
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