It's Monday, April 22nd, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

On Friday, the Biden administration dropped its new proposals on Title IX.

Administrative proposals intended to update and, in the words of the Biden administration itself to correct

policies that had been put in place under the Trump administration and the

leadership of then Secretary of Education Betsy Devos. The Devos regulations handed down

through the administrative process which by the way takes a few years which is why

this is just coming now in the Biden administration and just came when they did

in the Trump administration, the

DeVos changes really drew the ire of the left over two main issues.

One of them had to do with how hearings when there's an accusation of sexual abuse are to take place on a college

campus or for that matter in an academic setting covered by Title IX, which means American

taxpayer money.

And what the secretary at the time,

Secretary Devas, was seeking to correct

was the fact that on many campuses,

there was an absolute culture of what

can only be described as kangaroo courts.

And you had some who were actually very clearly violating the rights of students in allowing

hearings that, for instance, never required them or offered them the opportunity to

confront their accuser, and frankly, you had universities operating in their disciplinary

processes on the basis of a federally mandated procedure

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