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Kim M Murphy's avatar

Don’t forget Harriet Meirs.

And who was the woman who didn’t pay into SS for her housekeeper? She had to withdraw from consideration while Clarence Thomas sucks down somebody else’s money like a Hoover.

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Don Gates's avatar

I don't remember her name, but I believe she was Clinton's first nominee for AG

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

There were two. Kimba Wood and Zöe Baird. Both had undocumented help. Wood paid SS taxes but Baird did not.

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JF's avatar

I was recently thinking about that nominee - Kimba Wood. An interesting juxtaposition with Thomas’s hearings. It reminds me of a saying, that misogyny is more openly acceptable than racism.

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howard's avatar

I think miers would have been very similar to Sandra day O'Connor and therefore not my cup of tea, but no, I don't see her as anywhere close to Thomas in temperament and unsuitability.

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Don Gates's avatar

Depending on how you define "nominee," you could say she wasn't a nominee, since she was withdrawn, prudently, before being subjected to confirmation hearings. She had absolutely no business being in the conversation for SCOTUS, though. And I think she knew that as well as anyone.

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

I agree. Thomas is in his own category of awful.

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