Changing culture and structures at the same time is hard, but we make gains and they're

incremental and I get impatient and I worry too, but it doesn't stop me from pushing.

Hi there and welcome to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the law and the rule of law

and the spring court and the courts. I'm Dahlia Lithwick. I cover those things at Slate.com and we are

in this interregnum between President Joe Biden's announcement of Katangi Brown Jackson

as his nominee to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court and her confirmation hearings that are going to

begin in just a bit over a week. We were trying to think about who our absolute dream pick would be

to discuss this truly historic moment and we just decided to take a flyer and ask Anita Hill,

who in so many many ways is a trailblazer on big big issues around race and justice and accountability

and gender and she said yes and we're going to be hearing from her in just a moment. Later on in

the show Slate Plus members are going to have access to our special extra bonus segment and this

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now professor Anita Hill. So I guess I will just say that Anita Hill needs absolutely no introduction

in 1991 as a young law professor. She testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had

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