Anita Hill: Biden's committee could have kicked off #MeToo decades ago

Hill wrote in a New York Times op-ed the cultural shift might have started in 1991 had the Senate judiciary committee ‘done its job’

Anita Hill on Friday freshly assailed Joe Biden’s handling of her 1990s sexual harassment allegations, in a new op-ed – and argues that the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault could have kicked off decades earlier if not for the former vice-president’s missteps.

Hill accused then supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, and testified during his confirmation hearings before the Senate judiciary committee, which Biden chaired at the time. The controversy over Biden’s handling of the hearings, deemed harsh towards Hill, reignited after he jumped into the 2020 race for president.

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