The Evolving Landscape of Supreme Court Confirmations

Vox's Fabiola Cineas talks with Anita Hill, whose testimony during the 1991 confirmation hearings for now-Justice Clarence Thomas highlighted the prominence of sexual harassment and unwanted sexual advances in the workplace. Hill discusses how those hearings changed her, whether or not she has respect for the Supreme Court as an institution, and how her fight to stop gender violence continues today.

Host: Fabiola Cineas (@FabiolaCineas), Reporter, Vox

Guest: Anita Hill (@AnitaHill), professor, Brandeis University

References: 

• Getting Even with Anita Hill (Pushkin)
• Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Anita Hill (Viking; 2021)
• Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson (1994)

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This episode was made by: 

• Producer: Erikk Geannikis
• Editor: Amy Drozdowska
• Engineer: Patrick Boyd
• Deputy Editorial Director, Vox Talk: Amber Hall

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