Biden Nominee For Civil Rights Position Rejects Presumption Of Innocence, Defends Tweet Claiming Trump-Era Regs Allow Students To ‘Rape’ With ‘Impunity’
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Biden Nominee For Civil Rights Position Rejects Presumption Of Innocence, Defends Tweet Claiming Trump-Era Regs Allow Students To ‘Rape’ With ‘Impunity’

Ashe Schow

Due process may not be as sexy a constitutional right as the First or Second Amendments, but it’s one that all Americans need to defend.

On Tuesday morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee interviewed Catherine Lhamon, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which, among other things, oversees the implementation and enforcement of anti-sex discrimination regulations, commonly referred to as Title IX. Lhamon’s answers to several questions should raise civil rights concerns, but because her answers came in response to combatting campus sexual assault, they will be ignored by most media outlets and Democrats.

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