25 Years Later, Anita Hill Reflects on Thomas Episode

On Saturday, HBO released a film, “Confirmation,” which put a spotlight on a highly criticized 1991 Senate proceeding that reviewed sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas, who was then up for a Supreme Court Justice nomination.

Anita Hill, who worked as Thomas’s personal assistant with the EEOC in the early 1980s, claimed that Thomas had made unwanted sexual advances toward her, although her allegations were met with skepticism and fell short of derailing Thomas’s bid for a SCOTUS seat.

The film has prompted the media to take a closer look at the proceedings at the time, when the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewing ...