Of course, he wants due process for himself
Biden Promises to Scrap New Devos Rule on College Sexual Assault
Former Vice President Joe Biden is promising to scrap newly proposed guidelines by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos meant to ensure that individuals being accused of sexual misconduct on college campuses receive due process.
Biden, who most notably led the Obama administration’s “It’s On Us†campaign as vice president, criticized the education secretary on Wednesday for making college campuses “less safe.†In particular, the former vice president claimed DeVos’s “new rule gives colleges a green light to ignore sexual violence and strip survivors of their rights.â€
“Survivors deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and when they step forward they should be heard, not silenced,†Biden said in a statement.
Hmmm. Nah, moving on
Under prior Obama administration guidelines, colleges were allowed to use a “preponderance of the evidence†standard when determining the guilt of those accused. Such regulations often led to lawsuits alleging the infringement of civil liberties, as many of the accused were not allowed to cross-examine witnesses.
Devos’s new regulations will allow representatives for not only victims but also the accused to call witnesses and challenge evidence. Such hearings, which will be either conducted in-person or virtually, will have to now to rely on a “clear and convincing†standard, rather than just a “preponderance of the evidence.†When investigating complaints, colleges will also have to rely on trained personnel to evaluate evidence and make final decisions.
What Biden wants to do is get rid of Due Process, as required by the US Constitution (as well as state constitutions). Guilty until proven innocent. People’s lives ruined because of accusations that often cannot be proven, that are based on regret over consensual sex, where Feminist friends talk someone into thinking they were assaults. If they really were assaulted, then the complaints need to go through the criminal justice system, not a kangaroo court at a college.
