WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration’s Title IX campus sexual misconduct rule-making survived multiple legal challenges and took effect four years ago, an in-house lawyer at Tulane University feared its uniform due-process requirements – including full hearings for accused students – would cause “complete disaster” at some colleges.
Scott Schneider, now a hired gun for colleges on Title IX issues, told the Federalist Society’s education law and policy conference Wednesday the rules actually worked pretty well, having “turned the temperature down considerably” and reduced litigation against schools.
The wisecracking consultant has the same message for Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris: Whoever is elected president in November, stop changing the rules.
Title IX experts including Wyoming GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman gamed out potential changes in light of new Supreme Court skepticism for agency authority and the general election, which pits two White Houses that devised the two most recent Title IX regulations against each other.
Lawsuits have blocked the Biden-Harris administration’s much broader rule-making, which functionally restored the Obama administration’s pro-accuser guidance and imported gender identity into the sex-discrimination law, in 26 states and a hodgepodge of school districts and colleges nationwide attended by plaintiffs or their children. […]
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