Joe Biden Wants to Restore Obama Title IX Policies on College Campuses
“a monstrously unfair process that has forced hundreds of young men to sue for their rights — and reputations — in federal courts”
Biden really is running for Obama’s third term. This would be a horrible idea.
The Federalist reports:
Joe Biden Promises To Restore Obama’s Disastrous Campus Kangaroo Courts
Joe Biden has learned nothing from the Title IX due process disaster plaguing America’s campuses. The former vice president has released a plan on his website to restore the Obama administration’s infamous 2011 Dear Colleague letter, which Biden’s plan describes as outlining how to “fairly conduct Title IX proceedings.” In reality, the Dear Colleague letter introduced a monstrously unfair process that has forced hundreds of young men to sue for their rights — and reputations — in federal courts.
An accused’s rights to confront his or her accuser through cross examination and to have a neutral adjudicator have long been considered the very basics of due process. In the name of protecting women, the 2011 guidance encouraged universities to abandon these well-tested pillars in favor of a single-investigator model, in which a Title IX administrator both elicits the stories from the involved parties and rules on the outcome. The Dear Colleague letter also pushed universities into lowering the standard of proof and discouraged any kind of cross examination that might probe discrepancies in an alleged victim’s story.
Cynthia Garrett is a California attorney and co-president of Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE), an organization that advocates for due process and offers resources to the falsely accused. She says she is deeply concerned that Biden appears to be unaware of the downsides of the 2011 guidance.
“It’s particularly concerning that a presidential candidate seems oblivious to the unintended repercussions of a policy he championed. Over 500 lawsuits have been filed by accused students since the 2011 Dear Colleague letter, resulting in at least 161 court decisions in these students’ favor and over 100 pre-decision settlements,” Garrett said.
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
A colleague of mine recently had to undergo title IX interrogation (my school was one of the crappy ones to maintain all title IX guidances from the previous admin).
He is completely cleared of actual impropriety, but he was nonetheless interrogated in victim-blaming fashion about “leading the student on” to think there was a possibility of a relationship.
By the way, she’s a drug user and habitual liar that’s been caught multiple times and already has a history of falsely accusing other faculty at the university of the same thing. The Title IX office also paradoxically scolded the chair for advising my colleague not to meet alone with this student for his own protection. This is the BS world we live in when #metoo pushes the pendulum over to empower the inquisition.
Just one more reason Uncle Joe needs to be put away.