Monday, November 14, 2011

Sen. Leahy drops plan to amend VAWA to include "preponderance" standard in college sex cases

An update to this story is found here.  Sen. Patrick Leahy will not include in the VAWA reauthorization the "preponderance of the evidence" standard for alleged college sex offenses.   Leahy  is, apparently, not interested in courting such a controversial subject less than a year from what promises to be a hotly contested presidential election.

The "preponderance" standard is still mandated by the Department of Education for college sex cases, but an administrative regulation is generally easier to change than is a statute.  If, for example, President Obama loses the election next November, there is a reasonably good chance that the "preponderance" standard will be scrapped.

4 comments:

Dulantha said...

Who can trust VAWA...?

This is the place where feminists can survive wile they are executing their male hatred plans.

Anonymous said...

Congrats gentleman, Im sure folks here played a part in the cycle of events. ;)

slwerner said...

Anonymous - ”Congrats gentleman, Im sure folks here played a part in the cycle of events. ;)”

It’s a good bet that Leahy had hoped to score some political points with left-wing gender-feminists (and a few right-wing law-and-order White-Knight Chivalrists) by making the announcement; but had hoped to keep the ensuing discussions to a minimum, so that people wouldn’t start asking too many tough questions.

Fortunately, there are sites like the FRS to help disseminate the information that the dominant media typically tries to keep for the publics view.

That Leahy was shamed into dropping that onerous provision is surely a victory for truth, justice, and the (restyled) American way, wherein the internet can now be used to shine the light, and chase away the cockroaches of the political system.

Doug1 said...

Yaaaay haaay.