Agency that promotes campus-rape witch hunts gets budget increase from GOP Congress - The College Fix:The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is deeply unpopular among backers of due process in campus rape proceedings, First Amendment advocates and promoters of race-neutral discipline in schools – but not in Congress.
The Education Department component gets $107 million in the 2016 omnibus bill (page 977) set to go before the full House tomorrow.
That’s up from $100 million in last year’s omnibus bill – an increase of 7 percent.
Retired attorney Paul Mirengoff at Powerline explains why this is so troubling, especially coming from Republican lawmakers:
"This outfit [OCR] does all it can to impose the left’s agenda at the K-12 and college levels.
...By increasing OCR’s budget, Congress rewards its misconduct.
The budget should be slashed, not increased."
He says
- OCR puts K-12 schools in “legal jeopardy if they discipline black students more often in percentage terms” than whites, by applying a “disparate impact” standard with no basis in law
- contradicts Supreme Court precedent on the threshold at which bullying becomes “a federal case”
- forces colleges to lower their burden of proof in rape cases, “strongly discourages” cross-examination of accusers, and turns “dirty jokes” and even truthful claims about sexual history into sexual harassment for federal purposes
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