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Brooklyn College/ history professor. Former Fulbright professor at ; former track announcer at & VT State Fair.

Scarborough, ME
Joined November 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Sep 2017

    Betsy DeVos said, "No student should be forced to sue their way to due process." Here's what happens when they do:

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    “It might last 15 years and needs to be fixed again,” said the former head of MTA capital construction.

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  3. 7 hours ago
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  4. Retweeted
    24 hours ago

    Applauding a speaker calling for Israel to be dismantled is endorsing yet another extremist position.

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  5. 8 hours ago

    Scheduling order today from CA4--oral argument in due process lawsuit will be 3/19-3/21 (ironically in the same period as the Trump emoluments lawsuit). Panel to be announced in early February.

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    Why the growing practice of requiring all professors at a university to submit a "diversity statement" to get hired or promoted is a bad idea; it opens the door to ideological litmus tests. By , former dean of Harvard Med School.

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  7. . due process lawsuit (case involving off-campus incident w/non-student) ends after two sides reach a "resolution."

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    13 hours ago

    Key point in depriving accused's rights: there's no way to challenge the Title IX single investigator. It's a sham.

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  9. Full ruling, from Presiding Judge Thomas Willhite, is here:

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  10. Court discusses multiple questionable decisions in inv. Concludes that "deficiencies such as these are virtually unavoidable in USC's system, which places in a single individual the overlapping and inconsistent roles of investigator, prosecutor, fact-finder, and sentencer."

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  11. Perhaps the strongest critique of the single-inv'r model (touted by the Obama adm) from any court: "notion" that a single individual could ensure acc'd student's rights "ignores the fundamental nature of cross-examination" & "incompatable" w/effort "to uncover the truth." Wow.

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  12. Addressing credibiity questions is "simply too important" to be trusted to a single inv'r, since CA appellate panel, echoing conclusions of CA6 in Baum. Need to have hearing w/x-exam. (This is a key issue in the proposed TIX regs, as well.)

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  13. USC ruling says that right of x-exam must apply not only to acc'd student questioning accuser--but to key witnesses as well. Cites to CA6 Baum decision,

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  14. And, in fact, a couple of pages later in the decision, the Cal appeals court cites to the Brandeis and Marymount opinions, two of the strongest pro-student opinions in the wave of post-Dear Colleague letter litigation.

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  15. Very interesting holding by Cal. appellate panel in USC case: "Common law requirements for a fair disciplinary proceeding at a private university mirror the due process protections at public universities." This is similar reasoning to the Brandeis court at the federal level.

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  16. Just in: In the fourth consecutive such decision by a Cal. appeals court, Cal's Second Appellate District rules for acc'd student in lawsuit against . Holds there must be some type of hearing, w/some type of x-exam, neither of which USC provided.

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  17. The ratings provide a good focus on how many more pickup opportunities there are for the Democrats in 2020 than for the Republicans.

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  18. The tilt Republican for Collins seems overly pessimistic on her chances, but otherwise hard to argue with any of these ratings:

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  19. Training is exhibit in fast-moving lawsuit (judge allowed lmtd discovery). Unusual fact pattern: acc'd student initially treated as a victim (other students took photo) before charges brought against him. Motion for prelim. injunction, filed earlier today:

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  20. Quite a difference, from the TIX training, between how panelists are supposed to question accusers ("trauma-informed") and accused students ("confronting" and "challenging" OK under some circumstances). Full training:

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  21. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    Like during the primary when you said you supported aid to Israel and then changed your mind after you won?

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