Twenty-seven years after Anita Hill testified that Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her, Republicans are using the same tactic to go after Christine Blasey Ford : portraying her as a pawn of the Democratic Party and liberal interest groups.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, recognizing that it would look bad for a group composed entirely of white men to question a woman speaking about sexual assault, hired a female sex crimes prosecutor to do the job for them on Thursday.

The prosecutor, Rachel Mitchell, still pushed Republicans preferred line of questioning, which was no different than the one they employed when questioning Hill in 1991.