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Surveillance: A Road Map for Today's Kavanaugh Hearing From 1991

Bloomberg Surveillance

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Thursday’s Senate hearing over sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stirs memories of similar testimony from 1991. That’s when Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas was called back in his confirmation process to face the sexual misconduct allegations of Anita Hill. Bloomberg’s Bob Moon reports on how this scenario played out 27 years ago.

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is most important issues on Judge Kavanaugh and we will attempt at

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Bloomberg surveillance to commit perspective. We do that with Bob Moon and

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Bob it goes really back within your research to October 14th of 1991 when Anita Hill had to pass a lie detector test and I think that picks up your wonderful perspective you've put together.

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Yeah, you know Tom Shakespeare said what is passed picks up your wonderful perspective you've put together.

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Yeah, you know, Tom, Shakespeare said what has passed his prologue.

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So with the Senate Judiciary Committee set to Gabbel to order its high drama hearing

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into the sexual misconduct allegations against

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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. It is informative to look back 27 years

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to October 1991. That's when President George H.W. Bush's Supreme Court

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nominee Clarence Thomas was called back in his confirmation process to face the

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sexual misconduct allegations of Anita Hill, his former assistant.

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The panel's chairman at the time was Democrat Joe Biden of Delaware.

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This is not a referendum on whether or not,

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whether or not sexual harassment is a grave offense. I said from the beginning, this is about

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