On sexual assault, Neomi Rao wrote that if a woman “drinks to the point where she can no longer choose, well, getting to that point was part of her choice.”
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While she has since said that she “lacked the perspective of how [her articles] might be perceived by others,” her record shows these views persist today.
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Specifically, Rao has been personally involved in repealing protections for survivors of campus sexual violence. She has also acknowledged that her office approved controversial new rules on campus sexual assault under Title IX.
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Those rules would discourage survivors from reporting their assaults, in part because survivors would be subjected to cross-examination by their attacker’s chosen representative. It is safe to assume this change in the guidance will be challenged in the D.C. Circuit.
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