19 years after the fact, McEwen who is a Democrat and was a lawyer for Senator Joe Biden on the Judiciary Committee, comes forward with unsubstantiated stories about Clarence Thomas. Via Newsbusters:

The Washington Post is apparently an easy mark for someone selling 19-year-old sex allegations – or in this case pornography allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In 1991, during the Hill-Thomas hearings, Lillian McEwen kept quiet. But now, she has a memoir she’s “shopping to publishers.” The Post splashed her face across the front of Friday’s Style section. The headline was “I have nothing to be afraid of,” leaving out “and a book deal to gain.” The subhead was “Nineteen years after his turbulent confirmation, Lillian McEwen opens up with telling details about her intimate relationship with Clarence Thomas.” But are the “telling details” true or false?

Reporter Michael Fletcher (co-author of a critical biography of Justice Thomas) downplays that McEwen was a Democrat and lawyer for Senator Joe Biden on the Judiciary Committee. In their 1994 anti-Thomas book Strange Justice, reporters Jill Abramson and Jane Mayer quote Sukari Hardnett (another Thomas accuser) claiming Thomas discussed his personal life with her, complaining that McEwen viewed him as “a puppet of the Republicans.”

Who’s the “puppet” here? Clearly it’s McEwen. If I were Thomas I’d file a slander lawsuit against McEwen. The discovery should pro fruitful.

I’ve pulled a file on her from public and private records and I’ll have more later.