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“I was stunned to read in the news that a woman had accused Justice Clarence Thomas of groping her at a dinner party that I attended in and remember.
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Lawyer claims 1999 groping by Justice Thomas
WASHINGTON — Twenty-five years after he was battered by sexual harassment charges en route to his Supreme Court confirmation, Justice Clarence Thomas faced a new accuser Thursday.
The National Law Journal, following a two-week investigation, reported that an Alaska energy company vice president and general counsel claimed Thomas groped her at a dinner party in the Washington, D.C., suburbs in 1999.
The allegation from Moira Smith, who was a 23-year-old Truman Foundation scholar at the time, produced a vehement denial from the associate justice and a furious counterattack by his allies aimed at Smith and friends who corroborated her story.
It came as Thomas is celebrating 25 years on the high court, including a major speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation Wednesday night.
But what prompted Smith's initial Facebook post about the alleged incident earlier this month was Donald Trump's taped boasts from 2005 about touching and