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A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the U.S. law banning female genital mutilation was unconstitutional and dismissed charges against several doctors in Michigan who carried out the procedure on underage girls as part Muslim sect’s religious practice.

A draft of the new Title IX rules from the Department of Education was circulated a couple of months ago and they predictably had progressive groups setting their hair on fire. The final version has now been rolled out and, while there were some minor (but troubling) changes made, those same groups aren’t going to be any happier. The days of kangaroo courts hearing questions of criminal law at schools where cases of sexual assault or harassment are concerned won’t be ending entirely, but they will be decidedly more fair to all parties concerned. (Reason) This guidance will replace an...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and 176 Democrat members of Congress have sponsored a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that removes the references to women. “Children, youths, and adults" are replacing the wording “women and children.” What to make of this? Confusion about what gender means now that “male and female” are being removed from the liberal agenda? Acquiescence to an activist, identity politics that seeks to elevate fluid gender perceptions above biological sex? It’s a travesty women would no longer be the focus of the Violence Against Women Act. The left’s double speak around sexism...

The Department of Education is looking to impose new federal guidelines that would require schools to allow the cross-examination of accusers in sexual assault cases, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with a draft of the rules. The new rules would be a shift from the initial draft leaked in August, which had given schools the option of using cross-examination in their procedures, but did not require it, according to the Journal. The draft of the new rules would mandate that accused students be allowed to cross-examine their accusers, but allows for the questions to be asked by...

State lawmakers launching an investigation into how Gov. Phil Murphy's team handled a rape allegation against a former senior official must not use survivors as "spectacles for public consumption," according to a letter signed by 60 of the governor's female supporters who are questioning the motives behind the inquiry. The letter was sent to the 120 members of the state Legislature Monday before they were expected to vote to form a committee examining the response by law enforcement and Murphy senior staffers to the rape allegation against Albert J. Alvarez, a senior campaign staffer later hired as the Schools Development...

What we know: The woman is a “very credible witness.” Her story are corroborated. The incident happened in 2010 in New York City. The woman is a professional.

Deep Throat @TheeDeepThroat Brief follow-up to some concerns that have been raised: https://mobile.twitter.com/TheeDeepThroat/status/1053712995367378945/photo/1

#CoryBooker Sexually Assaulted Me and why it won't matter to the #metoo movement Accusation at link.

Wednesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein participated in the one and only debate with state Sen. Kevin de León, her challenger in the California Senate race. The debate was really more of a dual interview but one of the questions raised was whether or not Democrats should reopen the investigation into Justice Brett Kavanaugh if Democrats take the Senate. Feinstein’s initial answer was long-winded and not entirely clear. When the moderator asked her a point black follow up question about re-opening an investigation into Kavanaugh, Feinstein replied, “Oh, I’d be in favor of opening up the allegations, absolutely.”Here’s the debate video...

<p>The attorney for U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison has filed an appeal seeking to prevent a Hennepin County District Court from enforcing a ruling issued last week ordering the divorce records of Ellison and his ex-wife Kim be unsealed.</p> <p>The petition for writ of prohibition was filed with the Minnesota Court of Appeals Monday. Ellison is the DFL candidate for state attorney general.</p>

A former volunteer for New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's (D) campaign has accused one of his former staffers of sexually assaulting her during the 2017 gubernatorial campaign, raising questions about the state's protocol for handling such complaints, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Katie Brennan, the chief of staff for New Jersey's housing agency, detailed to the news outlet that Albert Alvarez allegedly forced himself on her in April 2017, when both were working on Murphy's campaign. She said she contacted the police the next day, told friends and family about the incident and went to the hospital for a...

Surveillance footage from inside a Brooklyn bodega where a white woman called the cops on a 9-year-old boy, claiming he grabbed her butt, shows the kid didn’t lay a hand on the lady. The video shows Teresa Klein standing at the counter of the Sahara Deli Market in Flatbush on Wednesday, paying for two bags of cat litter, as the boy walked past her to exit the store, followed by his mother. The boy was carrying a backpack and a large plastic bag from Cookie’s department store across the street, and the bag appears to brush against Klein as he...

Investigators now say the woman who accused three Bellevue officers of rape has a history of making false accusations. Bellevue, WA – Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a now-former police officer who served 49 days in jail because of what investigators now say were fake rape allegations.

Fake News: All during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process we were told by Democrats to suspend belief and suspend a pillar of our legal system — the presumption of innocence until proven guilty — because we must believe the women who accused him of sexual assault. We must believe them sans evidence or corroboration, we were told, because women don’t fabricate claims of sexual assault. Except that, on occasion, they do. And in fact, according to several studies, it happens much more often than most of us have been led to believe.

Glad they waited until the eve of the cloture vote to make this clear, after a week of theorizing by chumps like me and days spent by the FBI interviewing people named on Kavanaugh’s calendar on that date. Christine Blasey Ford would have ruled out a key date that both Republicans and Democrats have examined in evaluating her sexual assault claim against Brett Kavanaugh, had the FBI contacted her for its inquiry, according to a member of her team…But a member of Ford’s team said the California-based professor — who was not interviewed by the FBI for its inquiry...

About five years back I was working on a contract for a client and myself and several co-workers would stop at a local bar a couple of times a week after work for a couple of beers (Cheers kind of place). They had some staff that had been there for years but turnover with some other staff. I went out to join one of the recent new hires for a cigarette (yes, I know, filthy habit) outside the bar. It was December and cold and she was wearing a tank top. After some casual conversation I noticed she was shivering....

When I saw Mediaite’s original headline for this clip earlier today, I thought Brzezinski was suggesting that Conway might have lied about being sexually assaulted in order to lend a little moral authority to the White House’s criticisms of Christine Blasey Ford.But that’s not what she’s saying. Nor is she saying, as some critics have implied, that she thinks Conway should somehow be “forced” to describe the details of her sexual assault.What she’s saying is that Conway shouldn’t complain about how delicately Ford’s been treated if she’s unwilling to put herself in Ford’s shoes by describing the details of...

There’s no firm proof of that in this CNN story but the fact that the FBI interviewed Kavanaugh’s high-school classmate Tim Gaudette is a “tell.” Gaudette hosted the party noted on Kavanaugh’s calendar for July 1, 1982 that Democrats have spent the last week focused on. “Go to Timmy’s for skis with Judge, Tom, P.J., Bernie and Squi,” the nominee wrote at the time. (“Skis” presumably is shorthand for “brewskis.”) “Judge” refers to Mark Judge, of course, and “PJ” to Patrick Smyth, both of whom Ford claims were at the party where she was assaulted. “Timmy” is a reference...

Across the dimensions of her memory, her relationships, and her morality, all indications are that Christine Blasey Ford is either lying or deluded. Memory Her memory array is not plausible, given the events in her allegation. Have you ever been in a situation of natural disaster, crime, or accident wherein you were momentarily in fear of losing your life? Do you remember the location you were in? At such moments, the sensory portals open wide, creating an array of indelible memories, especially regarding the location. In the case of an attack, the avalanche of sensory input involved in the will...

A narrative has emerged over the past few years that women alleging sexual assault must be believed. That narrative took on heightened visibility in the wake of the sexual assault allegations of Christine Blasey Ford and the denials from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. It is imperative that all sexual assault allegations be taken seriously and investigated appropriately — something that has not always been the case. But the Innocence Project, which was founded in 1992, has demonstrated through DNA testing that there are numerous cases of men sent to jail because they were wrongly convicted of sexual assault. The...