From Anita Hill to Sonia Sotomayor

The Senate committee that Judge Sonia Sotomayor faced last week has two women. When Anita Hill testified there were none. | Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times

Jill Abramson, The New York Times | Full Story | Together, their experiences before the committee summarize a change in recent American politics. Professor Hill’s treatment by an all-male Judiciary panel presaged an outcry of “They just don’t get it!” and the election of many more women to the Congress. And the atmosphere of those earlier proceedings also insured a far tamer set of hearings this time, as neither Republicans nor Democrats have wanted to face the kind of damage inflicted by the partisan circus of 1991. >>

Published 09.07.18 02:00:00 -0500 GMT | Posted by Andrew Garib on 09.07.18 | |

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