Posted on 01/12/2023 3:46:49 PM PST by karpov
Catherine E. Lhamon is the current Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Despite the unassuming title, her position wields enormous power.
The Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, at her sole discretion, can cut off federal funding (and has threatened to do so) from any recipient educational institution she deems unwoke or patriarchal. Lhamon once quipped about how she enjoys carrying the “big stick of the federal government” to further her agenda.
Lhamon is best known for abusing her authority to create an illiberal ecosystem of administrative law during the Obama administration, eviscerating due-process protections for students accused of sexual harassment. The overwhelming majority of these students are male, even though men are as likely as women to report unwanted sexual contact and even though the majority of male victims of nonrape sexual assault report female perpetrators.
Lhamon’s brand of justice was selective, elusive, and vindictive. Our past research found that, between 2012 and 2019, her inquisitors were 2,400 percent more likely to side with female complainants than male complainants.
In resolution letters against Frostburg State University and Stanford University, Lhamon sought twice to eliminate the “reasonable person” standard for assessing whether a particular act constitutes sexual harassment. On another occasion, Lhamon’s bureaucrats investigated a male teacher for allegedly staring at a female student for three seconds.
Lhamon’s overreach has drawn bipartisan and professional condemnation. Formal critics include the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Reason Foundation.
Liberal giants like Janet Napolitano and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have also weighed in against the unfairness of Lhamon’s star chamber procedures.
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Honor the 10th Amendment and there would be no federal funding and scum like this can dry up and blow away in the wind.
The Dept of Education could be conducting satanic child sacrifice at their HQ and the GOP still couldn’t find a way to eliminate it.
There shouldn’t be a Department of Education.
TTIUWOP
I’ve looked up her pic, but will not defile this thread by posting it.
Good move.
“...between 2012 and 2019, her inquisitors were 2,400 percent more likely to side with female complainants than male complainants.”
Hey, that’s quite a bit of “disparate impact” there. Hmm, if only there were a legal precedent that disparate impact alone is enough to demonstrate discriminatory practices in violation of federal law...
I wish she would cu off ALL ederal funding to ALL the schools. Then Congress needs to ban it altogether.
Cut the Department of Education budget to 25 cents a year.
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