the current rule led to what critics called kangaroo courts. ignoring the rights of the accused. instead of working with schools on behalf of students, the prior administration weaponized of the office for civil rights to work against schools and against students. bret: advocates for survivors of sexual assault say betsy devos is out of step with reality and only a small percentage of rape reports are proven false. democrats are said to be dreading next week s release of hillary clinton s book. sections already leaked future criticism, sometimes harsh, of then president obama. vice president joe biden and bernie sanders among others. chief white house correspondent james rosen takes a look at what we know about what happened and reaction to it. with her third memoir entitled what happened hillary clinton s account of her life story runs 1,709 pages and
reports the new people in charge want to look more closely at the rights of the accused. for rape survivors like jessica davidson, the obama around guidelines were a godsend. the government administration took this very seriously and sent a leadership signal to leadership across the country that they too should take this very seriously. for students wrongfully accused of committing such acts and their parents, they say the same guidance has been a nightmare. not only they got expelled and suspending, the same time their belief in the american system collapses. the new education secretary betsy devos is considering reversing the title ix guidance after meeting yesterday with all sides. the secretary said it s clear that changes must be made. though she didn t say what those changes would look like. those students shouldn t feel the scales are kept against him or her.
want to look more closely at the rights of the accused. for rape survivors like jessica davidson, the obama around guidelines were a godsend. the government administration took this very seriously and sent a leadership signal to leadership across the country that they too should take this very seriously. for students wrongfully accused of committing such acts and their parents, they say the same guidance has been a nightmare. not only they got expelled and suspending, the same time their belief in the american system collapses. the new education secretary betsy devos is considering reversing the title ix guidance after meeting yesterday with all sides. the secretary said it s clear that changes must be made. though she didn t say what those changes would look like. those students shouldn t feel the scales are kept against him or her.
more prisons. the anglo-american system of law was historically defined by its focus on the rights of the accused, not the powers of the prosecutor. in describing that system, the great english jurist william blackstone once said, better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. we have strayed very far from that sensibility in america today. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column this week. let s get started. iran s actions this week again made many observers scratch their heads in confoundment. on tuesday, the nation s revolutionary guard fired shots across the bow of a cargo ship and then seized it. according to the shipping
having served on a grand jury myself, i can confirm that it is in fact a rubber stamp for the prosecution, which is exactly the opposite of what it was intended for. the crime wave of the 1970s scared america. and when scared, americans often overreact and enact bad legislation. what followed were a spate of laws relating to drugs and crime that have given the police and prosecutors far too much power and the accused too few protections and too little dignity. the zeal to lock people up has spawned a vast prison industrial complex that now lobbies aggressively for its own special interests, which of course mean more arrests, lockups, and thus more prisons. the anglo-american system of law was historically defined by its focus on the rights of the accused, not the powers of the prosecutor. in describing that system, the great english jurist william blackstone once said, better