Taxpayer-funded groups seek to deny due process to students accused of rape

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'Fraternity and sorority groups are paying a former high-ranking senator to help protect their members’ due-process rights in campus rape investigations.

Sexual-assault awareness groups and universities are lobbying to deprive them of due process, using taxpayer money.

The war of words is heating up over the Safe Campus Act, introduced in July by three House Republicans, who were joined in sponsorship by two Democrats in the past several weeks.

Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and lawyer Cleta Mitchell, an adviser to two Chi Omega fraternity chapters, promoted the Safe Campus Act in aWashington Post op-ed earlier this month. Lott is lobbying for fraternities and sororities on the issue.

They wrote that the bill “would require that law enforcement authorities have a first look at claims of sexual assault on campus” and “provide interim measures to improve student safety, due-process protections for students and student organizations, and more education to prevent such crimes.”'