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| Betsy DeVos is getting savaged for closing campus kangaroo courts |
| 2018-09-02 |
| [NYPOST] judicial process that doesn’t allow the accused to cross-examine his accuser or reliably see the evidence against him is a civil libertarian’s nightmare. It traduces every principle of fairness and is blatantly un-American. Yet Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is about to get savaged for replacing just such a process with something more in keeping with our longstanding legal norms. The Education Department is preparing new rules that would roll back the monstrously unfair Obama-era requirements for how colleges handle sexual-assault and harassment allegations. It will be a significant advance for due process, which is almost as out of style on campus as free speech. In one of its least defensible actions, the B.O. regime used its Office for Civil Rights to impose its preferred procedures for handling sexual-assault cases on all the universities in the country that receive federal funds. It did it via a 19-page "Dear Colleague" letter, in the name of Title IX, the provision in federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination in education. The process was terrible. It blew right by the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires public notice and comment before such rules go into effect. And the substance was worse. If the letter reads as if it was written by inflamed activists who had no interest in balanced proceedings, that’s because it was. It required colleges to adopt a "preponderance of evidence" standard rather than a "clear and convincing" standard. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 That’s an awfully specific file, Zenobia F. I’m afraid to ask how many such specific files you have, and what it means about both our imaginations. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-09-02 22:27 |
| #11 But wait! "Ceci n'est pas une maitresse." I am literally rolling on the floor laughing. And by 'literally', I mean figuratively, of course. Does everything mean the opposite nowadays? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-09-02 19:24 |
| #10 ^ Outta the pile, of course, from the "Dinosaur limericists pigtail-pulling and slut-shaming green-haired Polack-Chinawoman Ivy Leaguers" file. More popular than one might think, in certain markets. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-02 18:15 |
| #9 Columbia Art made a mess. A madwoman's ass in distress: Dulle Griet on a sheet... Still, it seems incomplete. But wait! "Ceci n'est pas une maitresse." |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-02 18:07 |
| #8 In reference to #5 and #6. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-09-02 14:12 |
| #7 The Mueller judicial process comes to campus? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-09-02 14:10 |
| #6 #5 Now they will have to use simulate due process and present Fixed. Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-09-02 11:18 Fixed further. :) Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-09-02 11:59 |
| #5 Now they will have to Fixed. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-09-02 11:18 |
| #4 A disaster for the left. Now they will have to use due process and present actual evidence. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-09-02 11:10 |
| #3 Is that screwy broad who couldn't even get the kangaroo court to listen to her still carrying her mattress around? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-09-02 10:19 |
| #2 For the Left its only about power. Only when you shove their heads into the guillotine, then they'll want to talk about 'due process'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-09-02 10:10 |
| #1 Hurray for Betsy Devos. This should have happened long ago. There should not be two systems of justice in this country. These kangaroo courts are like embracing Sharia Law in the U.S. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-09-02 09:30 |