The first Supreme Court confirmation hearings I covered as a journalist were the Clarence Thomas proceedings. There, as a young field producer for C-SPAN, I found myself in the middle of history in real time. This was back in the days when cellphones had to be carried in a big padded bag. We were the pool for the hearings, and I was a wide-eyed journalist, soaking it in.
As mesmerizing as it was to be in the room when Anita...
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