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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 16, 1991
Dole and Kassebaum vote for Thomas' confirmation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Clarence Thomas will be a better judge on the Supreme Court because of the brusing Senate fight concern- ing senate Majority, said Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole.
Bob Dole
"Having gone through another test of
his strength and character, in my view he's a stronger position." Dole said yesterday before the Senate voted 52-48 to confirm Thomas' nomination.
"My view is that this will make Judge Thomas a better judge and a stronger judge than earlier
Both Dole and fellow Kansas Sen. Nancy Kassebau supported Thomas.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Kassebah decried the bitter bite about Thomas' nomination and complained about the leak to the press of a confidential FBI report, which led to hearings on allegations of sexual harassment against Thomas.
She said Thomas would go to the high court under a cloud of suspicion he could never fully
Kassabau said she found "no conclusive evidence" to back the allegations against Thomas.
"I believe it would be unfair for the Senate to destroy a Supreme Court nominee on the basis of evidence that finally boils down to the testimony of one person, however credible, against his flat, unequivocal and equally credible denial," Kassebaum said.
Anita Hill, professor of law at the University of Oklahoma, alleged that Thomas harassed her with talk of sex and pornographic movies when she worked with him at two federal agencies
Dole, the Senate Republican leader, complained that Thomas was "twisting in the wind while every effort conceivable was used to discredit him."
He said the confirmation vote boiled down to a
question of Thomas and Hill's credibility.
He said, "This is not a referendum on sexual harassment. This is a referendum on slavery his nomination to the Supreme Court."
K a s s e b a u m
acknowledged there
had been pressure on
her about the Thomas
nomination because she was one of only two women in the Senate.
But she said, "Throughout my years here I have taken pride in the fact that I am a U.S. senator and not a woman senator.
"Some women suggest that I should judge this nomination not as a senator, but as a woman, one of only two women in the Senate. I reject that suggestion. The issue before me is whether, with all of the ambiguities surrounding this matter, the allegations by professor Hill have been substantived to the point that I should change my previous view. I have reached the conclusion
After the vote, President Bush telephone-done Dole in the Capitol to congratulate him on the Senate confirmation vote. Earlier in the day, Dole had called Thomas' sister-in-law, who lives in Hutchinson, and assured her the Senate would confirm Thomas.
Kassebaum said the Senate should not handle future court nominees it treated Thomas, and she said senators needed to resolve questions about the disclosure of the sexual harassment allegations against Thomas.
*find no evidence that Professor Hill is part of some dark conspiracy, but there are real questions now about whether she was used by others in an attempt to subvert the Senate's confirmation process.* K萨基萨 said.
"I have no evidence to prove this is so, but the question now hangs in the air around us. If that question is not resolved, it may well be that the darkest cloud of all from this affair will cover the Senate itself."
NORMAN, Okla. — Anita Hill quietly accepted Clarence Thomas' confirmation to the Supreme Court and said that she hoped the outcome would not stop others from complaining about harassment in the work place.
"The issue of sexual harassment is now part of a dialogue." Hill told reporters last night outside her home with her mother standing next to her.
The Associated Press
She declined to comment specifically about the Senate vote.
Hill: Harassment is issue to be dealt with
"I cannot tell you how many letters and cards I have received from people throughout the country who are concerned about this," she said. "Women, men and women have received the same thing have written and said now, for the first time, they could talk about it.
"And that's important. What I hope is that none of this will deter others from coming
Hill, 35, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and a national television audience that she was sexually harassed by Thomas when she worked for him at the U.S. Department of Justice. Employment Opportunity Commission. Employment Venue denies the allegations.
forward. This is an important issue and the dialogue should not stone here."
Earlier yesterday, Hill returned to her classroom at the University of Oklahoma law school, teaching classes in contracts and commercial law. The last class ended minutes before the Senate approved Thomas's nomination.
At the end of the school day, Hill was whisked out a side door of the law school classroom. She said that she had not seen the debate, and repeatedly said "no comment" to reporters' questions as she left the building.
rounded by reporters and photographers.
Aside from the reporters and photographers, it was business as usual at the law school. Students inside the room opened up skins as the door was closed and class began.
Todd Hicks, one of the students in Hill's first class, said the professor made a brief introduction.
"She said, 'I don't think they'll ever leave me alone', then she told us she missed us." Hicks said. "She was not herself, that was obvious."
A group calling themselves the Civilized American Students of Law put out filers on various tables in the law school to show support for Thomas.
David Swank, dean of the law school, said he had talked briefly with Hill since her return, only to say hello. Although the national spotlight was on the school yesterday, Hill and the school were trying to return to normal, he said.
Mother, hometown supporters celebrate confirmation
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"I feel good," said Thomas' mother, Leola Williams, "God has answered our prayer.
"All the senators that I don't know by name, I thank God for them and the ones that voted against him, I pray for them that someday he can show what he can do for our nation."
Williams, who lives in nearby Savannah, watched the vote on television with family members.
When the roll-call vote lingered at 48 in favor, she took a deep breath. When the final vote, 32-48, was announced, and her and her relaunched jumped out of their chairs and embraced.
The vote was delayed a week after Anita Hill charged that Thomas sexually harassed
her when she worked as his aid at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-
Hill, a University of Oklahoma law professor, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Thomas talked about his sexual prowess and sex acts he had seen in pornographic movies.
"Ipray God she'sgonna get her life straightened out" Williams said.
Thomas' mother said she bore no animosity toward Hill.
*I don't think she could sit on TV and use those...words that she used in that courtroom in front of all those people.
"If my child had to say something like that I'd jumped up in the courtroom and knocked someone in his mouth."
Even before the vote, Thomas was a hero in his hometown.
Selena Harris, working behind the dellic counter at the Pin Point Pump and Pantry store, said she would tell her 2-year-old son,
Christopher, about Thomas when he's old enough to understand.
"He will be in the history books," she said. "I can say, 'He was raised in Pin Point,' and give my son hope that he can do anything if he sets his mind to it."
"People are happy," he said. "They feel proud of him. It's not often you have a person from a small community make it to the top."
Sonyea Smith, 24, preparing to leave for work as a hotel busboy, was optimistic Thomas would be confirmed.
He said residents were upset when they sent the allegations leveled against Thomas by Jenkins.
"They feel bad about Anita Hill trying to bring him down," Smith said. "She should have come out with it when she worked for him, instead of waiting 10 years."
Pin Point, an old community with about 300 residents, is located along the edge of a marsh south of Savannah.
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