KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, LYING SEXIST DEMAGOGUE: Kirsten Gillibrand claims her bill gives equal rights to accusers and accused, but it doesn’t.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has been leading the charge against campus sexual assault, but her solutions would eviscerate due process rights and skew campus hearings in favor of accusers.
During a Washington Post symposium on campus sexual assault Wednesday (which included no speakers advocating for due process), Gillibrand was asked if the bill she has introduced — the Campus Accountability and Safety Act — takes into account the rights of accused students. Gillibrand responded with an emphatic “absolutely” before claiming that she and her Senate colleagues worked with accused students while crafting the bill.
“[We] made sure that they had the same rights of representation as someone who was alleging the crime,” Gillibrand said. “And so, all notice requirements are for both, all representational requirements — that you can have someone by your side representing you — are for both.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has been leading the charge against campus sexual assault, but her solutions would eviscerate due process rights and skew campus hearings in favor of accusers.
During a Washington Post symposium on campus sexual assault Wednesday (which included no speakers advocating for due process), Gillibrand was asked if the bill she has introduced — the Campus Accountability and Safety Act — takes into account the rights of accused students. Gillibrand responded with an emphatic “absolutely” before claiming that she and her Senate colleagues worked with accused students while crafting the bill.
This is not accurate. Gillibrand’s bill does not specifically lay out what rights accusers (the bill calls them “victims” throughout, except for once, illustrating a clear bias) and the accused have. It states only that schools must provide each student with written notice of the process to provide them “with the opportunity to meaningfully exercise the due process rights afforded to them under institutional policy.” . . .
One of the more baffling statements Gillibrand made was her supposedly hypothetical situation about a college professor dealing with a serial rapist.
“Just imagine you’re a college president, and you have four accusations against one student by four other students, and you have no way to get him off campus until there’s a conviction,” Gillibrand said. “That would make your head explode.”
Hmm, that sounds familiar — where do you think Gillibrand came up with the number four? That is not a random hypothetical. She was clearly alluding to her friend, Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz, and her friends’ accusations against fellow student Paul Nungesser.
Sulkowicz accused Nungesser of raping her (though Facebook messages call that assertion into question), and then three of her friends each accused Nungesser of various offenses — from a forced kiss to a bad relationship — in order to bolster her claim. Nungesser was found not responsible in each case except one, which he won on appeal. The fourth accuser’s story was even less plausible than Sulkowicz’s.
Gilliband has called Nungesser a “rapist” in print, so it is no coincidence that she would come up with a hypothetical situation that perfectly mirrored her perception of the case.
She’s an execrable woman who has no business in the U.S. Senate.