Justice Thomas' Book Is Now Available!

The October 1, 2007 Associated Press has a brief review of Justice Thomas new book about his confirmation process 16 years ago. Gee, time flies. The book focuses on his bitter confirmation hearing where Thomas was accussed of sexually harassing Anita Hill, then a law professor at Oklahoma City Law School and currently a college professor at Brandeis University.  From the article:

Breaking his 16-year public silence on his bitter confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says Anita Hill was a mediocre employee who was used by political opponents to make claims she had been sexually harassed.

Thomas writes about Hill, his former employee in two government agencies, and the allegations that nearly derailed his nomination to the high court in 1991 in his autobiography, "My Grandfather's Son. .  ."

Powerful interest groups were out to stop him at all costs and they chose "the age-old blunt instrument of accusing a black man of sexual misconduct," he writes.

I have two questions for Justice Thomas. First, why did you choose to break your silence now? Second, many of us would have liked to have learned something about the Court. Why did you limit the book to your confirmation hearings?

Mitchell H. Rubinstein