According to the Obama administration and others, there is an epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. The evidence for that though shows that it’s largely a bunch of nonsense. Will that stop our rulers from to solve this non-existent problem? Not really.
Just as Marco Rubio worked with Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid to grant amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants with the Gang of 8, he’s working with both so-called Republicans and other Democrats to implement the Obama agenda on college campuses. Rubio has teamed up with Republican Senators Charles Grassley and Kelly Ayotte and Democrats Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand to work on a bill to “do something.” What they plan to do is eliminate due process for accused campus rapists by setting up campus rape courts.
National Review has more:
With key Republicans along for the ride, McCaskill and Gillibrand produced a bill designed to advance the administration’s agenda. Its language presumes the guilt of all students accused of sexual assault by repeatedly calling accusers who have not yet substantiated their claims “victims,” without the critical qualifier “alleged.” CASA would also order colleges to provide a “confidential advisor” for these “victims,” with no comparable help for the accused. And it would require universities to publish data on the outcomes of their campus sexual-assault cases (which only Yale does now), apparently in the hope that doing so will invite Title IX complaints against any college that finds an insufficient number of accused students guilty.Further, McCaskill has said that CASA, by making adjudication processes uniform for all institutions, is designed to help “remove the underpinning of . . . lawsuits” by accused students who say they were railroaded. No wonder McCaskill believes that “victims” might see themselves as “better off doing the Title IX process” than going through the criminal-justice system.
Does Marco Rubio, who graduated law school, care about due process? Here’s what his spokesman, Alex Conant, told the Washington Examiner’s Ashe Schow when she asked about the protections for the accused.
Of course the accused has all those rights in criminal procedures and, in general, Sen. Rubio believes more of these cases should be handled in that arena. This bill does not address how schools handle internal disciplinary matters other than to say schools cannot favor a particular class of accused student (athletes or others).
The right to due process does not change by university. Those rights are constitutionally protected.
Rape is a crime and it should be treated as such. That includes acknowledging that all accused have the right to a fair trial, to confront their accuser, and to question the evidence against them.
But apparently there’s no place for due process in Marco Rubio’s “New American Century.” But then again, “New American Century” sounds a lot like “Hope and Change.”
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