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Opinion: David Brock Believed In Clarence Thomas. Now He Wants Him Impeached. (429 hits)

Opinion: David Brock Believed In Clarence Thomas. Now He Wants Him Impeached.
Opinion by David Brock

Twelve years ago, I penned a four-page memo laying out the case for impeaching Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. My memo was forwarded to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton by a mutual friend and became public in 2015, when Clinton’s emails were released after the Russian hacking.

As far as I know, the memo was read and, understandably, set aside. But it’s worth revisiting now that public confidence in the high court,already at record lows, is at issue after the court stripped away the Constitutional right to abortion from tens of millions of American women.

I have a long history studying Clarence Thomas. When law professor and former Thomas employee Anita Hill came forward and testified to the Senate that he had s*xually harassed her, I assailed Hill’s credibility and protected Thomas’ reputation in order to please my right-wing tribe in an article and a subsequent book written with the full cooperation of Thomas’ allies. Years later, after Thomas’ own close friends confided to me that they never believed him and that he indeed had a penchant for raunchy pornography ― a key proof point for Hill’s case ― I recanted my reporting, concluded that Thomas was guilty as charged, andpublicly apologized to Hill.

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