COWARDLY REPUBLICANS Defend Due Process For Kavanaugh But Not Accused Students
The Republican Party supports due process for wealthy white men, such as Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump. And only wealthy white men. It’s hard to come to any other conclusion, given how sparingly elected Republicans have discussed the importance of careful deliberation when it comes to sexual-misconduct allegations in any other context. They certainly aren’t coming to the defense of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as she seeks to institute basic protections for accused students – disproportionately nonwhite – in Title IX proceedings. That’s clear from the research of KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor, co-authors of The Campus Rape Frenzy, published in The Weekly Standard…Two of the federal judges on President Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist, Amy Coney Barrett and Amul Thapar, have scolded universities that failed to allow any form of cross-examination in proceedings. Judge Thapar wrote the opinion that enshrined the right to cross-examination in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, “one of more than 100 federal and state court decisions since 2011 in which universities found themselves on the losing side in lawsuits brought by students accused of sexual assault,” Johnson and Taylor write:
In their rulings, judges have cited pervasive pro-accuser bias among academic officials; secret training of adjudicators to believe accusers even in the face of discrediting evidence; bans on meaningful cross-examination; concealment of exculpatory evidence; designation of a single bureaucrat as investigator, prosecutor, judge, and jury; and numerous other due-process outrages.
Now is the chance for congressional Republicans to show “their demands for fairness to Kavanaugh go beyond partisan politics,” and speak up for the less privileged students who find themselves at the mercy of kangaroo courts.
thecollegefix By Greg Piper
