Note: For background on why this bill is fundamentally flawed see Jonathan Taylor’s analysis here, and the National Coalition for Men – Carolinas chapter’s analysis here.
Update 7/26/2015:
- Panel I: Senator Claire McCaskill; Senator Dean Heller; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand; Senator Kelly Ayotte
- Panel II: Janet Napolitano, President, University of California, Oakland, CA; Dana Bolger, Co-Founder, Know Your IX, Washington, D.C.; Dolores Stafford, President & CEO, D. Stafford & Associates, Rehoboth Beach, DE; Mollie Benz Flounlacker, Associate Vice President for Federal Relations, Association of American Universities, Washington, D.C.
| Senate Office | St | Phone (202) | HELP Staff Member to contact: |
| Alexander, Lamar | TN | 224-4944 | [email protected]; |
| Baldwin, Tammy | WI | 224-5653 | [email protected]. |
| Bennet, Michael | CO | 224-5852 | [email protected]. |
| Burr, Richard | NC | 224-3154 | [email protected]. |
| Casey, Robert | PA | 224-6324 | [email protected]. |
| Cassidy, Bill | LA | 224-5824 | [email protected]. |
| Collins, Susan | ME | 224-2523 | [email protected]. |
| Enzi, Michael | WY | 224-3424 | [email protected]. |
| Franken, Al | MN | 224-5641 | [email protected]. |
| Hatch, Orrin | UT | 224-5251 | [email protected] |
| Isakson, Johnny | GA | 224-3643 | [email protected]. |
| Kirk, Mark | IL | 224-2854 | [email protected]; |
| Mikulski, Barbara | MD | 224-4654 | [email protected]. |
| Murkowski, Lisa | AK | 224-6665 | karen_mccarthy@murkowski. |
| Murphy, Christopher | CT | 224-4041 | russell_armstrong@murphy. |
| Murray, Patty | WA | 224-2621 | [email protected] |
| Paul, Rand | KY | 224-4343 | natalie_burkhalter@paul. |
| Roberts, Pat | KS | 224-4774 | [email protected]. |
| Sanders, Bernie | VT | 224-5141 | [email protected]. |
| Scott, Tim | SC | 224-6121 | [email protected]; |
| Warren, Elizabeth | MA | 224-4543 | [email protected]. |
| Whitehouse, Sheldon | RI | 224-2921 | brenna_barber@whitehouse. |
Original Post on June 20, 2015:
Late Friday afternoon I was contacted by a leading Senate office who informed us that Senator Gillibrand is stepping up her efforts to bring the Campus Accountability and Safety Act (S590) to the floor for a vote. This information has also been confirmed in Politico as per this article, which reads:
SEX ASSAULT BILL GETS SENATE HEARING: New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is gearing up to push her legislation to combat sexual assault at colleges through Congress – be it through Higher Education Act reauthorization or a separate vote on the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. The Senate HELP Committee will hold a hearing on the bill in the next month or so, Gillibrand said in a sit-down with POLITICO on Thursday, but the senator is also working toward securing the needed 60 votes to advance the bill independently to the president’s desk.
She and fellow Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill are making progress: They already have 32 co-sponsors, including a dozen Republicans, among them Republican Sen. Marco Rubio. “I see very strong bipartisan support, in the same way we had with military sexual assault,” Gillibrand said. “In some respects, it might be easier to go up against your college president than it is to go up against the Department of Defense – so maybe we’ll have more support.”
Gillibrand also said she’s pleased the Education Department has doubled the number of colleges facing Title IX sexual violence investigations in the past year – to 116, as of Wednesday – but noted that there are likely many more institutions where cases haven’t been brought. “I don’t know if [the department has] the resources to close those cases. I believe they need more resources,” she said. “They want to get it right.” The CASA Act authors are working “hand in glove” with department officials to figure out an online campus climate survey that’s widely accessible, and how to coordinate with law enforcement, Gillibrand added. “We are 100 percent in agreement on the parameters of this bill,” she said.
Even in the wake of the now infamous Rolling Stone gang rape hoax story, S590 has garnered supporters and is now up to 32 co-sponsors which represent more than half the votes needed to pass this legislation. Our Congressional friends on Capitol Hill are urgently suggesting that we collectively and passionately voice our opposition to S590 by contacting member offices of the Senate HELP committee. Here is the link that provides the names of the 22 HELP committee members. Go to their individual websites and access their contact pages to contact them.
Having been up on the Hill multiple times talking to legislators about the dangers of kangaroo court campus sex hearings, I assure you that many in Congress believe that S590 can be defeated. However we need to turn the volume up right now.
Do not wait, please call the Senate HELP committee members this week and ask them to oppose S590. Feel free to use the NCFMC briefing document entitled “The Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the Campus Accountability and Safety Act” as reference material which we distributed to Congressional staffers this past Spring.
Senators Gillibrand and McCaskill along with their army of rape culture activists are kicking their political efforts to into overdrive and so should we. Too many innocent young lives are at stake for us to sit back. Please help and call the senate HELP committee members ASAP!
For all that you do, I sincerely thank you.
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Note: For background on why this bill is fundamentally flawed see Jonathan Taylor’s analysis here, and the National Coalition for Men – Carolinas chapter’s analysis here.
Update 7/26/2015:
- Panel I: Senator Claire McCaskill; Senator Dean Heller; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand; Senator Kelly Ayotte
- Panel II: Janet Napolitano, President, University of California, Oakland, CA; Dana Bolger, Co-Founder, Know Your IX, Washington, D.C.; Dolores Stafford, President & CEO, D. Stafford & Associates, Rehoboth Beach, DE; Mollie Benz Flounlacker, Associate Vice President for Federal Relations, Association of American Universities, Washington, D.C.
| Senate Office | St | Phone (202) | HELP Staff Member to contact: |
| Alexander, Lamar | TN | 224-4944 | [email protected]; |
| Baldwin, Tammy | WI | 224-5653 | [email protected]. |
| Bennet, Michael | CO | 224-5852 | [email protected]. |
| Burr, Richard | NC | 224-3154 | [email protected]. |
| Casey, Robert | PA | 224-6324 | [email protected]. |
| Cassidy, Bill | LA | 224-5824 | [email protected]. |
| Collins, Susan | ME | 224-2523 | [email protected]. |
| Enzi, Michael | WY | 224-3424 | [email protected]. |
| Franken, Al | MN | 224-5641 | [email protected]. |
| Hatch, Orrin | UT | 224-5251 | [email protected] |
| Isakson, Johnny | GA | 224-3643 | [email protected]. |
| Kirk, Mark | IL | 224-2854 | [email protected]; |
| Mikulski, Barbara | MD | 224-4654 | [email protected]. |
| Murkowski, Lisa | AK | 224-6665 | karen_mccarthy@murkowski. |
| Murphy, Christopher | CT | 224-4041 | russell_armstrong@murphy. |
| Murray, Patty | WA | 224-2621 | [email protected] |
| Paul, Rand | KY | 224-4343 | natalie_burkhalter@paul. |
| Roberts, Pat | KS | 224-4774 | [email protected]. |
| Sanders, Bernie | VT | 224-5141 | [email protected]. |
| Scott, Tim | SC | 224-6121 | [email protected]; |
| Warren, Elizabeth | MA | 224-4543 | [email protected]. |
| Whitehouse, Sheldon | RI | 224-2921 | brenna_barber@whitehouse. |
Original Post on June 20, 2015:
Late Friday afternoon I was contacted by a leading Senate office who informed us that Senator Gillibrand is stepping up her efforts to bring the Campus Accountability and Safety Act (S590) to the floor for a vote. This information has also been confirmed in Politico as per this article, which reads:
SEX ASSAULT BILL GETS SENATE HEARING: New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is gearing up to push her legislation to combat sexual assault at colleges through Congress – be it through Higher Education Act reauthorization or a separate vote on the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. The Senate HELP Committee will hold a hearing on the bill in the next month or so, Gillibrand said in a sit-down with POLITICO on Thursday, but the senator is also working toward securing the needed 60 votes to advance the bill independently to the president’s desk.
She and fellow Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill are making progress: They already have 32 co-sponsors, including a dozen Republicans, among them Republican Sen. Marco Rubio. “I see very strong bipartisan support, in the same way we had with military sexual assault,” Gillibrand said. “In some respects, it might be easier to go up against your college president than it is to go up against the Department of Defense – so maybe we’ll have more support.”
Gillibrand also said she’s pleased the Education Department has doubled the number of colleges facing Title IX sexual violence investigations in the past year – to 116, as of Wednesday – but noted that there are likely many more institutions where cases haven’t been brought. “I don’t know if [the department has] the resources to close those cases. I believe they need more resources,” she said. “They want to get it right.” The CASA Act authors are working “hand in glove” with department officials to figure out an online campus climate survey that’s widely accessible, and how to coordinate with law enforcement, Gillibrand added. “We are 100 percent in agreement on the parameters of this bill,” she said.
Even in the wake of the now infamous Rolling Stone gang rape hoax story, S590 has garnered supporters and is now up to 32 co-sponsors which represent more than half the votes needed to pass this legislation. Our Congressional friends on Capitol Hill are urgently suggesting that we collectively and passionately voice our opposition to S590 by contacting member offices of the Senate HELP committee. Here is the link that provides the names of the 22 HELP committee members. Go to their individual websites and access their contact pages to contact them.
Having been up on the Hill multiple times talking to legislators about the dangers of kangaroo court campus sex hearings, I assure you that many in Congress believe that S590 can be defeated. However we need to turn the volume up right now.
Do not wait, please call the Senate HELP committee members this week and ask them to oppose S590. Feel free to use the NCFMC briefing document entitled “The Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the Campus Accountability and Safety Act” as reference material which we distributed to Congressional staffers this past Spring.
Senators Gillibrand and McCaskill along with their army of rape culture activists are kicking their political efforts to into overdrive and so should we. Too many innocent young lives are at stake for us to sit back. Please help and call the senate HELP committee members ASAP!
For all that you do, I sincerely thank you.
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The following quote is meant to support and corroborate the aforementioned article opposing CASA”Feminist jurisprudence sees the workings of law as thoroughly permeated by political and moral judgments about the worth of women and how women should be treated.
Given the foregoing feminist philosophical and legal constructs, the determinants of the same are premised upon destroying traditional Western legal concepts of the individual application of the law in an unbiased manner and replacing the same with differentiating the formulation of the law and the application of the law based upon gender (and other class determinants) and how the formulation and application of the law promulgates the goals of women (and, through implication, other groups) against the oppressive “Patriarchy” as represented by men individually and collectively.
Although feminist jurisprudence revolves around a number of questions and features a diversity of focus and approach, two characteristics are central to it.
First, because the Anglo-American legal tradition is built on liberalism and its tenets, feminist jurisprudence tends to respond to liberalism in some way.
The second characteristic is the goal of bringing the law and its practitioners to recognize the law as currently constructed does not acknowledge or respond to the needs of women and must be changed.” (Feminist Jurisprudence- Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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More from Title IX for All
Accused Students Database
Research due process and similar lawsuits by students accused of Title IX violations (sexual assault, harassment, dating violence, stalking, etc.) in higher education.
OCR Resolutions Database
Research resolved Title IX investigations of K-12 and postsecondary institutions by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
Attorneys Directory
A basic directory for looking up Title IX attorneys, most of whom have represented parties in litigation by accused students.
Done.
Thank you!
The following quote is meant to support and corroborate the aforementioned article opposing CASA”Feminist jurisprudence sees the workings of law as thoroughly permeated by political and moral judgments about the worth of women and how women should be treated.
Given the foregoing feminist philosophical and legal constructs, the determinants of the same are premised upon destroying traditional Western legal concepts of the individual application of the law in an unbiased manner and replacing the same with differentiating the formulation of the law and the application of the law based upon gender (and other class determinants) and how the formulation and application of the law promulgates the goals of women (and, through implication, other groups) against the oppressive “Patriarchy” as represented by men individually and collectively.
Although feminist jurisprudence revolves around a number of questions and features a diversity of focus and approach, two characteristics are central to it.
First, because the Anglo-American legal tradition is built on liberalism and its tenets, feminist jurisprudence tends to respond to liberalism in some way.
The second characteristic is the goal of bringing the law and its practitioners to recognize the law as currently constructed does not acknowledge or respond to the needs of women and must be changed.” (Feminist Jurisprudence- Encyclopedia of Philosophy)