# Someone started a petition on change.org to nominate Anita Hill for SCOTUS

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**Created:** [February 14, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-started-a-petition-on-change-org-to-nominate-anita-hill-for-scotus/746147 "2016-02-14T20:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-started-a-petition-on-change-org-to-nominate-anita-hill-for-scotus/746147/1 "2016-02-14T20:18:00Z")

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I’m guessing that it’s a joke. Not that she’s not necessarily qualified, but I’m thinking that the nominator may be making a joke due to Hill’s past relationship with Thomas.

> **[Sign the Petition](https://www.change.org/p/nominate-anita-hill-for-supreme-court-justice?recruiter=40939820&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink)**
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> Nominate Anita Hill for Supreme Court Justice

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> Anita Hill is a highly qualified legal scholar with all the right qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. She will be an excellent choice to make the most important decisions facing our judiciary.

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**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-started-a-petition-on-change-org-to-nominate-anita-hill-for-scotus/746147/2 "2016-02-14T20:36:12Z")

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Niiiiiiice.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-started-a-petition-on-change-org-to-nominate-anita-hill-for-scotus/746147/3 "2016-02-14T22:11:51Z")

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Apparently the smart money is on Padmanabhan Srikanth Srinivasan, who immigrated here with his family from India as a boy. He was confirmed to the federal bench in 2013 with no dissenting votes, which would make it difficult to argue against him without looking like complete idiots. He’s also a moderate.