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'Of course, not every unpopular judgment is a fair one. But if we make judges political animals who pander to popular opinion, what would happen to the rights of citizens who are not the most vocal, the most powerful or the most organized? To quote Justice O’Connor, “The founders realized there has to be some place where being right is more important than being popular or powerful, and where fairness trumps strength. And in our country, that place is supposed to be the courtroom”.
Judge Persky is not the only one facing the fury of the online mob. Leslie Rasmussen, a musician who had written a character letter in support of Turner, became one of the most hated persons on social media — her band was forced to shut down its social media accounts. Cyberbullies unwittingly sent thousands of hateful messages to an unrelated woman who shared a last name with the musician.'
'Tino Cuellar (moderator), Supreme Court of California Michele Dauber, Stanford Law School Jacob Gersen, Harvard Law School Andrew Miltenberg, Nesenoff Miltenberg Goddard Laskowitz, LLP Deborah Rhode, Stanford Law School.'
'I think the victim's statement was moving and compelling. I also understand the disgust and anger at the attitudes exhibited in the statements submitted to the court by Turner's father (who infamously lamented that his son's life was being ruined for "20 minutes of action"), by his friends and other character witnesses who seemed to see him as an equal victim, and by Turner himself. While his statement makes several brief references to the pain and trauma his actions caused the victim, most of is steeped in self-pity and shows little accountability; he clearly sees himself as a victim of "the party culture" at Stanford.
June 9, 2016 - The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to approve its FY17 Labor-HHS Appropriations bill earlier today, with only one senator, Bill Cassidy (R-LA), voting against the bill. Funding for the Centers for Disease Control's Prostate Cancer activities program was restored!!! Thanks to all of Malecare's Patient Advocacy Leaders and ALL of You who sent emails and made phone calls to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Malecare was the lead organization in fighting for the restoration of CDC Prostate Cancer program funding. Which means, you made this happen!
'But despite the high-profile crackdown, how those investigations come to be, and how they play out, isn’t always clear. The civil-rights office is opening investigations much faster than it’s resolving them: So far this year, 46 cases have been opened and only two resolved (one by the Department of Justice).
The Chronicle wants to shed light on the federal-enforcement process. We introduced a Title IX tracker in January, including all investigations in this wave of enforcement — since the civil-rights office issued a "Dear Colleague" letter, in April 2011, putting colleges on notice — and this week we added several new ways to use it. Our goal is to let people keep up with the process and other developments on campuses under review.'
'A former Marysville High School teacher who admitted to a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old student was sentenced to seven days in jail.
Stacy McConoughey, 36, faced a maximum 20 years in prison on four counts of sexual battery, but Union County Common Pleas Court Judge Don Fraser, while chiding her, noted that she was contrite and cooperative throughout the investigation and hearing Monday.
"You should have taken steps to distance yourself from the young man rather than repeatedly encouraging his lust," Fraser wrote in a sentencing entry he read in court.'
'A Jefferson City woman won't spend any time in prison after admitting to sex crimes against multiple children. Misti Fitzwater pleaded guilty to five different felonies Thursday.
A judge suspended Fitzwater's sentence and placed her on parole. Judge Robert Schollmeyer was very clear that he did not want to have to revisit the issue with her, saying "If there is a violation that is alleged, you and I will see each other again. You do not want that to happen."
Judge Schollmeyer went on to say, "If you and I see each other in this setting again, I assure you that I will do everything that is necessary to see that these sentences will be actually executed."
Fitzwater pleaded guilty to one charge of statutory rape, two of statutory sodomy and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
She was charged after having sex with two separate underage partners and allowing them to smoke marijuana in her car.'
'A 35-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina woman is not going to spend a day in jail – despite the fact that she ADMITTED to killing both her babies.
Katherine Anne Jennings, the mother of two babies who died under questionable circumstances in 2012 and 2013, has been sentenced to five years of probation. She plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the second baby’s death. Prosecutors did not charge her in the death of Katherine’s first baby.
On Dec. 13, 2013, 8-month-old Luke Stephen Phillips was sleeping with his mother on the couch. He was later found DEAD – the cause of death is suffocation.
The same thing happened to his brother James Robert Phillips, who was 4 months old when he died in June 2012. A medical examiner found that he had suffocated while sleeping with his mom.'
'A federal investigation found that, contrary to complaints from current and former students, Occidental College did not mishandle cases of sexual assault, except for delays in several cases during the 2012-13 school year.
But the report from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights did find that the campus climate may be leading some students not to report sexual assaults they experience.
Occidental’s investigation started in 2013, at the beginning of a wave of activism around campus rape. The private liberal arts college in Los Angeles entered into a voluntary resolution this week with the Education Department to measure the climate on campus as it relates to sexual violence and to improve the speed with which the college investigates assault reports. The agreement ends the investigation, allowing the government to release its findings.
'A teen boy runs, and wins, against teen girls in a high school level competition. The winning part is not surprising. Men have some biological reasons for being physically superior to women. Testosterone increases their muscle mass, lung capacity, and upper body strength. Then there are all the subtle ways that make a boy/man faster and stronger: smaller Q-angles, denser bones, more efficient oxygenation.
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The politically correct, confusing nonsense will end up depriving girls of opportunities. They’ll lose to boys who compete as girls. Title IX was meant to correct sex discrimination. With the Obama administration and the feather-brained school administrators across the country, Title IX is going to cause sex discrimination because gender identity is being willfully confused with biological sex. Women and girls with female DNA and biology will be pushed out by biological boys.'
'The Yale basketball player who was expelled in February after a university committee found that he had raped a fellow student sued the university on Thursday, accusing it of a “deeply flawed process.”
In the lawsuit and an accompanying statement released by a public-relations firm, the player, Jack Montague, who was once the team captain, suggested that Yale had chosen to make an example of him because of public criticism over its handling of the hot-button issue of campus sexual assault.'
'If you don’t recognize rape accusation culture, look up what happened at Vassar, where a freshman was expelled after being accused of rape a full year after having sex with a woman who’d given no indication at the time that the encounter was anything but consensual. Look up what happened at Brandeis, where a student accused his former boyfriend of sexual misconduct over their two-year relationship, including good morning kisses that were deemed nonconsensual because the kissed party was half-asleep.
'The other day, I was trying to think of the last time I heard the words “white men” uttered in a positive way. I came up blank.
The context for those two words is just about always negative. Sometimes people who think white guys are the problem—no matter what the problem might be—throw in the word “angry.” And “angry white men” then becomes an easy way to dismiss even legitimate concerns and grievances by white men.
A female Rutgers professor once wrote that mass murder was the result of “white male privilege.” The website Gawker once composed a list of the “worst 100 white men.”
Barack Obama said of Judge Merrick Garland, his nominee to the Supreme Court, “Yeah, he’s a white guy, but he’s a really outstanding jurist. Sorry.”
OK, he was kidding. But imagine if some chucklehead came up with a list of the “Worst 100 Black Men.” Or if some white male conservative politician nominated a like-minded African-American to the bench and said, “Yeah, he’s a black guy, but he’s a really outstanding jurist.”
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