WASHINGTON ¨C When Clarence Thomas took a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991, he had only barely survived a series of bitter Senate hearings on allegations of sexual harassment that divided the country.
But he said he was quickly welcomed by his eight fellow justices.
¡°After going through all those difficulties, the members of the court were just wonderful people to a person,¡± Thomas said in an appearance at the Library of Congress earlier this year. ¡°So the court itself is quite different from the ordeal. It¡¯s almost the opposite of the ordeal it took to get there.¡±
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