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Lawyer Accuses Clarence Thomas Of Groping

October 28, 2016

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An Alaska attorney this week claims that at a 1999 dinner party, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas touched her sexually without permission. Moira Smith was 24 at the time. She was invited to the party while in Washington DC as a Truman Foundation scholar. “I was setting the place to his right when he reached out, sort of cupped his hand around my butt and pulled me close to him,” Smith said. “He said, ‘where are you sitting?’ and gave me a squeeze.” In 1991, Thomas’s Supreme Court nomination hearings were nearly sunk by attorney Anita Hill’s accusations that he sexually harassed her while they worked at the Department of Education and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This week, Thomas released a statement saying, “This claim is preposterous and it never happened.” The National Law Journal identified three of Smith’s friends who recalled her speaking of the incident in 1999.

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