Posted on 07/22/2016 3:53:01 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Administrative law in America is an open invitation to bureaucrats to see how much they can get away with by interpreting statutes to expand their power and impose their own will. The Department of Education provides many examples.
One of the most appalling is the way officials in the Departments Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have treated the vague language in Title IX of the 1972 Education Act Amendments as if it gave them plenary authority to control anything on a college campus having to do with alleged sexual misbehavior.
The wording says: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
The members of Congress who passed the bill and President Nixon who signed it thought they were acting to keep schools and colleges from discriminating against womennot admitting them or treating them differently from male students. If someone had asked any of them if this meant that federal bureaucrats could dictate to colleges how they must handle cases where individual students were accused of sexual assault, the reply would have been, Youve got to be kidding of course not.
But we have reached the point where federal bureaucrats are the true overlords of higher education and they get to decide what statutes mean. In particular, officials in OCR have pushed their ideas so far past the written law that we are now getting a strong legal counterattack.
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It’s high time these ridiculous politically correct assaults on males be exposed and terminated forever. I hope both colleges lose in big ways, especially Yale.
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