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Hill admitted that a staffer to Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) told her Thomas would "quietly" drop out if she let the Judiciary Committee and the FBI approach Thomas with the issue--without even using her name. Later, Sen. Joseph R. Biden (D-Del.) told Hill she would not have to go public. From her standpoint, she did not have everything to lose by coming forward. She could just hide behind the committee and avoid the "intensely traumatic" process...
...Joseph Biden (D-Del.) said Saturday, in a case like this the presumption should be with Thomas, the accused. But not only is the evidence for him is overwhelming...
...letter, copies of which passing students were asked to sign, was addressed to Committee Chair Joseph R. Biden...
Letters to Biden...
...Biden went after Thomas for the latter's "natural law" approach to interpreting the Constitution, by which judges can invoke vague notions of eternal justice that pre-exist the written document. Yet in his opening remarks to Bork four years ago, Biden celebrated something that sounded like a liberal's version of "natural law" as the common man's reproach to Bork's literal reading of the Constitution. "As a child of God," said Biden, "I believe my rights are not derived from the Constitution . . . My rights are because I exist...