{"id":351723,"date":"2021-03-30T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T20:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=351723"},"modified":"2021-03-30T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T20:15:34","slug":"progressive-lawyers-help-biden-administration-gut-devoss-title-ix-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-lawyers-help-biden-administration-gut-devoss-title-ix-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Lawyers Help Biden Administration Gut DeVos\u2019s Title IX Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprogressive-lawyers-help-biden-administration-gut-devoss-title-ix-rules%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=351723&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4588.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lawsuit filed against the Department of Education could expedite the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to roll back protections,&nbsp;implemented under former secretary of education Betsy DeVos, for college sexual assault victims and their accused assailants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public Justice and the National Center for Youth Law, two progressive legal groups, filed suit on March 8 on behalf of Berkeley High School\u2019s Women\u2019s Student Union in California. Lawyers for the plaintiffs claim DeVos\u2019s changes to Title IX rules made it harder for public schools to adjudicate sexual misconduct cases and have led to an uptick in harassment on high school and college campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Campus<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/progressive-lawyers-help-biden-administration-gut-devoss-title-ix-rules\/\"><strong>Progressive Lawyers Help Biden Administration Gut DeVos\u2019s Title IX Rules<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/cornell-students-call-to-stop-new-china-partnership\/\"><strong>Cornell Students Call to Halt China Partnership<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/gofundme-deactivates-page-run-by-virginia-parents-fighting-woke-curriculum\/\"><strong>GoFundMe Yanks Page Run by Virginia Parents Fighting Woke Curriculum<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Joe Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/05\/06\/biden-vows-a-quick-end-to-devos-sexual-misconduct-rule-241715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vowed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to put a &#8220;quick end&#8221; to Trump-era Title IX rule changes while running for office. This lawsuit could get DeVos\u2019s regulations off the books much sooner than they otherwise would. The plaintiffs are asking for a preliminary order barring enforcement of the rules, which can be obtained in a matter of months and would have the same practical consequence as a repeal by the administration. Lawyers for the plaintiffs have acknowledged as much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Biden administration has rightly said it intends to review DeVos\u2019s rules. This lawsuit complements that goal and offers the court an opportunity to more swiftly erase some of the worst parts of the regulations and restore critical protections that students need right now,&#8221; Alexandra Brodsky, a Public Justice counsel working on the case, said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p>Seth Galanter, senior director of legal advocacy at the National Center for Youth Law and another counsel on the suit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/letters\/colleague-201304.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/letters\/colleague-201304.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617218223811000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrRJkVEWNHcpnjPAJZM4glU3BtyQ\">authored<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/letters\/colleague-201304.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/letters\/colleague-201304.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617218223811000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFquSQvS4V3cn1kpTlQAzd7wS2b5g\">several<\/a> of the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221; letters while he served as acting assistant secretary for the Education Department&#8217;s Office of Civil Rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Issuing a regulation is time and labor intensive. Almost two years elapsed between public release of a draft of DeVos\u2019s rules and their implementation in August 2020. The same is true of repealing a regulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Joe Biden started that process by ordering a review of the DeVos rules on March 8, the same day that the Berkeley High School Women\u2019s Student Union filed suit.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suit claims that DeVos\u2019s regulations, which took effect in August, narrowed the definition of sexual harassment and let schools off the hook for misconduct that takes place outside of school hours. The rules also bar administrators from investigating any complaint not submitted through an official process. Before, administrators were legally responsible for any harassment they should have known about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawyers representing the Berkeley group claim the plaintiffs have suffered because of the rule changes, which allowed school officials to overlook incidents of cyber-bullying or indecent exposure that took place outside of school. They also claim DeVos\u2019s changes were not adequately explained, and that they conflict with the department\u2019s longstanding views and Title IX.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trump administration argued those changes brought the department in line with Supreme Court precedent on harassment and produced a fairer environment in the nation\u2019s schools. Critics of Obama-era Title IX enforcements charge that fear of liability was driving schools to adopt heavy-handed investigatory procedures and mistreat those accused of wrongdoing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Northern California case is the latest in a series of lawsuits that have pressured the courts to undo Devos\u2019s Title IX rule changes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Candice Jackson, a former deputy assistant secretary for the Education Department\u2019s Office of Civil Rights, told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that while efforts to adjudicate the rules aren\u2019t without their merit, it\u2019s more probable that the Biden administration will be forced to resort to dismantling the rules through the law.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I have a hard time seeing a federal judge rewriting the rule, so if they want to replace the rules, they are stuck with going through the rulemaking process,&#8221; Jackson said. &#8220;[But] their effort is not futile. Every chance they had from last summer through now could have persuaded a federal judge. It\u2019s never a forgone conclusion. But we went through the hard work in the first instance, following legal justification and the right process.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackson, one of the architects of DeVos\u2019s rule changes, said she believes it would be challenging for the Justice Department to do an &#8220;about-face&#8221; and fail to defend the rules after judges have repeatedly decided in favor of DeVos\u2019s Title IX rule changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not clear how the Biden administration will respond to the lawsuit. Though the complaint was filed in federal court three weeks ago, no government lawyer has entered an appearance for the Education Department as of this writing, according to court filings. That could be a sign that the department is unsure how it wants to proceed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women\u2019s Student Union <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">v. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. Department of Education<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawsuit filed against the Department of Education could expedite the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to roll back protections,\u00a0implemented under former secretary of education Betsy DeVos, for college sexual assault victims &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311404,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4588.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Progressive Lawyers Help Biden Administration Gut DeVos\u2019s Title IX Rules","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4588.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Progressive Lawyers Help Biden Administration Gut DeVos\u2019s Title IX Rules","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}