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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 21:10 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Wat heeft dit te maken met de Amerikaanse politiek?

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Betsy DeVos Just Rescinded Title IX Protection for Sexual Assault Survivors. Here’s Why That Means

Betsy DeVos just confirmed what many had suspected: The Trump White House is veering away from Obama-era Title IX protections for sexual assault victims on college campuses.

Speaking Thursday at George Mason University’s Law School in Arlington, Va., the U.S. Secretary of Education announced that "the era of rule by letter is over."

The letter she was referring to is the Dear Colleague Letter (DCL)—another name for the 2011 Title IX Guidance. Not to be confused with Title IX itself, the Obama-era directive focuses on how sexual harassment creates a hostile educational environment. For the purposes of a Department of Education (DOE) investigation, "one single instance of sexual violence is sufficient to qualify as creating a hostile educational environment," according to anti-sexual violence organization KnowYourIX.

Title IX, on the other hand, is a 1972 law that addresses gender equality on campus. It requires that "no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

In a speech that lasted nearly three-quarters of an hour, DeVos outlined the many issues that she sees with the 2011 directive. Her main points against it:

- Because the guidelines don't require that those accused of sexual assault be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, they lack due process, as required by U.S. law. "The accused must know that guilt is not predetermined," DeVos said.
- School administrators, who often play the roles of juries and judges when it comes to determining whether sexual assault took place, are ill-equipped to do so: "There's a competency gap here."
- Schools are spending more time on data collection for sexual cases than on creating policies to stop them. "The Office for Civil Rights [a sub-branch of the DOE that enforces Title IX regulations] has terrified schools," she said, suggesting that as a result, schools are "overreaching."

While DeVos enumerated the ways in which the DCL "comes up far too short for far too many students," she did not announce any new initiatives to take its place. Instead, she said the DOE will be launching a "transparent notice and comment process" in order to "seek public feedback and combine institutional and expert knowledge."

She did not address what will happen to victims of campus assault in the interim, as they have lost protections under the DCL, but a new policy has yet to be implemented.

The White House has not yet responded to a request for comment. Fortune will update this story with any response.

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 21:38 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Oom Donald heeft ook al gezegd dat hij anders wel met een oplossing voor de Dreamers te komen.
Hoe dan ook is het praktisch onmogelijk om deze mensen te deporteren, alleen al om het feit dat het 'thuisland' ze niet willen opnemen.

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Op woensdag 6 september 2017 23:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Holy shit, dit is echt ongehoorde dimensies chess.

[ afbeelding ]
Hey Schumer, waarom sta jij handen te schudden met die KKK Nazi?

Eeuuhhmmmm

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Senate approves Trump's debt deal with Democrats

The Senate on Thursday approved a short-term bill to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling despite frustration among Republicans about the deal that President Trump struck with Democrats.

Senators voted 80-17 on the agreement, which includes an extension of government funding and an increase in the federal borrowing limit through Dec. 8. Those measures are paired with more than $15 billion in hurricane and disaster recovery aid.

Seventeen Republican senators voted against the deal, including Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), John McCain (Ariz.) and Rand Paul (Ky.). No Democrats voted against the measure.

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), whose state was hit hard by Hurricane Harvey, supported the measure but stressed, “I would have much preferred a clean Harvey relief bill.”

The deal has stoked widespread opposition in the GOP, particularly among conservatives. Though Republicans support helping communities devastated by Hurricane Harvey, many are loath to raise the debt ceiling or fund the government without spending or entitlement reforms.

The package will now bounce back to the House to be passed for a second time before heading to Trump for his signature. House lawmakers easily cleared a stand-alone Harvey recovery bill, on Wednesday, but that margin is expected to shrink now that the Senate has attached the debt-ceiling increase and the government funding measure.

The Republican Study Committee, the largest GOP caucus in the House with more than 150 members, came out against the deal on Thursday, calling it irresponsible. The caucus’s opposition means the deal might pass the House mainly with Democratic votes — an unusual dynamic with a Republican in the White House.

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 21:39 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://fortune.com/2017/0(...)e-ix-sexual-assault/
Lijkt me geen slechte zaak. Het is niet alsof sexueel misbruik nu toegelaten is. Dat je extra wetgeving nodig hebt om bvb sexueel misbruik in gevangenissen te bestrijden, dat zou ik nog begrijpen. Maar als je universiteitscampussen zo gevaarlijk zijn dat studenten meer wettelijke bescherming nodig hebben dan bvb vrouwen in achterstandswijken, dan kan je die campussen beter sluiten.

En belangrijker, het systeem werkte niet. Je kan universiteiten geen misdrijven laten onderzoeken en vonnissen uitspreken.

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 21:59 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://thehill.com/homene(...)-deal-with-democrats

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 20:18 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Dit vind ik veel erger: https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)riage-in-the-us.html

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 22:11 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Ik had het hoofd van McConnell wel willen zien toen hij hoorde over deze deal met de dems.

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 21:59 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://thehill.com/homene(...)-deal-with-democrats

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 22:11 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Ik had het hoofd van McConnell wel willen zien toen hij hoorde over deze deal met de dems.

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Trump hits new low in public opinion — but he's still beating Hillary Clinton

The number of Americans who say they hold positive views of President Donald Trump has dropped to its lowest point since his inauguration, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday.

But the survey offered Trump at least one potential bit of solace: He’s still beating Hillary Clinton.

Just 36 percent of those reached by pollsters said they have either very or somewhat positive feelings about Trump, 2 points lower than in the poll’s June iteration. But at 36 percent, Trump still finished 6 points higher than Clinton, his 2016 Democratic opponent, about whom just 30 percent of respondents said they feel either very or somewhat positive.

The 2016 rivals were nearly deadlocked among those with negative feelings. Fifty-three percent of those polled said they hold either very or somewhat negative feelings toward Clinton, while 52 percent said the same of Trump.

While the president has struggled at times through the early months of his presidency, feuding with members of his own party, fueling racial tensions and failing thus far to push through a major legislative victory, Clinton has mostly stayed quiet, aside from an occasional speaking engagement.

In recent weeks, excerpts from her forthcoming book, titled “What Happened,” have trickled out, including bits in which she recalls being put off by Trump’s behavior during one of their debates and passages published by CNN that are critical of former FBI Director James Comey, former Vice President Joe Biden and her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

The president’s approval rating in the poll was unchanged relative to June, remaining at 40 percent. The share of respondents who said they disapprove of Trump’s job performance also remained the same, at 55 percent.

Respondents expressed warm feelings for former President Barack Obama, about whom 51 percent said they feel positive, compared with 35 percent who said they hold negative feelings about him. Forty-four percent said they feel positive about Sanders, and 45 percent said the same of former President George W. Bush. Thirty percent of those polled said they hold negative feelings toward both Sanders and Bush.

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 22:18 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dit zijn de tegenstemmer, zo te zien allen republikeinen idd... opvallend genoeg ook juist net een hoop republikeinen die ik mogelijk zou verwachten als voorstanders van DACA / Dreamer wetgeving (Flake, Graham, Lankford, McCain(, mss Grassley) bv.):

Corker
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Flake
Graham
Grassley
Johnson
Lankford
Lee
McCain
Moran
Paul
Risch
Sasse
Toomey

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 22:23 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Hij was er zelf bij. Trump nam het besluit terwijl de discussie nog aan de gang was in de Oval Office. Ik neem aan dat Ryan en McConnell sprakeloos waren

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Op donderdag 7 september 2017 22:25 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het was letterlijk handjeklap tussen Trump en Schumer, 2 New Yorkers.

"6 months"

"3 months"

DEAL!