Constitution State Mulls<br>Legislation To Dilute <br>Due Process on Campus
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Liberalism in Connecticut used to stand for due process of law, but not anymore. Increasingly liberalism in Connecticut stands instead for mere political correctness, as signified by two liberal causes advancing through the General Assembly. They could result in the Constitution State weakening the constitutional guarantee of due process.
The first is legislation to require colleges to expel male students who can’t prove themselves innocent of non-criminal accusations of sexual assault made by female students — can’t prove that their sexual relations were entirely consensual. This is being called “affirmative consent.” Under “affirmative consent” such innocence is unlikely to be proved without sworn and notarized receipts from the sexual partner or comprehensive video-recording.
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