{UAH} JOE BIDEN WOULD BE FOUND GUILITY OF RAPE

Joe Biden would be found guilty of rape under the Title IX standard he supports

by Washington Examiner

May 11, 2020 12:00 AM

 

Despite evidence supporting charges that he raped a subordinate in 1993, Joe Biden deserves the benefit of the doubt. Or he would deserve it, were he not such a hypocrite as to deny that benefit to others.

In 2011, the Obama administration, in which Biden was a boastfully proud member, released a “Dear Colleague” letter instructing colleges and universities on how to handle sexual assault allegations under Title IX. In practice, this "guidance" threatened to withdraw federal funds from colleges that failed to convict and expel all students accused of sexual assault.

Biden enthusiastically supported the measure. Anyone can make a mistake. But Biden has not learned from his mistake or withdrawn his support even after it is crystal clear that the policy is a disaster. Lives of innocent students have been ruined. Yet Biden is promising to reinstate the guilty-until-proven-innocent standard, which the Trump administration has ended, if he wins the presidency. Under this obscene standard, Biden himself would almost certainly be found guilty of rape.

The results of the Obama administration's Title IX policy were catastrophic. In case after case, college men were denied basic due process rights that defendants in civilized nations take for granted; they could not confront accusers, question witnesses, compel the production of exculpatory evidence, be represented by counsel, be presumed innocent, or even, in some cases, know the charges leveled against them.

Under threat of being defunded by the Obama administration, colleges held kangaroo courts and condemned students to ignominy on little or no evidence, and sometimes even in spite of compelling exculpatory evidence that was simply disallowed or ignored.

Take the case of John Doe at Amherst College. While he was unconscious, a female student fellated him. Two years later, she filed a sexual assault complaint against him based on the incident. The school, employing the Obama administration’s recommended procedure, put Doe through a deeply unfair process that ended, as designed, in his expulsion. Then he hired a lawyer to investigate. Even though he was able to produce contemporaneous text messages demonstrating that his accuser had lied, Amherst administrators refused to reconsider the case.

John Doe sued his school, as have some 400 other students placed in similar situations. He ultimately won a settlement, but he should never have been subjected to the appalling injustice for which he was compensated. His case, though astonishing, is typical. It was repeated again and again under the policy that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wisely abolished. But Biden promises to bring back.

It is bad enough that ordinary Democrats and the Left try to have it both ways on the issue of the sexual assault accusation against Biden. After so much feigned concern for victims, they are reduced to dishonest special pleading. They demand that the world unquestioningly believe all women who accuse Republicans of misconduct and reflexively disbelieve women who accuse Democrats. If not for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all.

But Biden’s personal conduct is even more disgraceful, a case of stark personal hypocrisy. Should the voters treat Biden fairly? Or should they treat him as he says he'll treat others?

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