I agree with you that it’s wholly unnecessary; even if this properly reflected what CRT is (which it obviously doesn’t,) I doubt anyone was teaching white kids that they should feel anguish on the basis of their race. What is interesting is that the bill basically serves as a distillation of what Republicans think CRT…

I mention that above when I say “I think it’s probably more a piece of Republican stunt legislation; Ron DeSantis and Florida Republican legislators flexing nuts and playing to their crowd.”

dl;dr - In essence, the bill wouldn’t actually make it an actionable offense to make students feel bad for being white—it makes actionable to teach students that they should feel bad for being white.

This is in fact known at the time of origination.

Another commenter (who went down the Westlaw rabbit hole,) discovered that, in fact, various Circuits have held that students facing expulsion from institutions of public education (at least at the high school and med school level, so probably at all levels of higher ed,) are entitled to some degree of due process in…

[R]eading that many get dumped after a motion for summary judgment, where both parties have had a chance to do discovery, makes sense[.]

Having actually read the law review article that serves as the backdrop of the above post, I honestly don’t think the post above does a good job of explaining what the article is all about. The fact that the headline says “and it’s working” makes it sound like they’re winning their suits, and that is absolutely not…

so if you’re going to accuse students of sexual misconduct under Title IX then it follows that government standards should apply.

Of course as it relates to 1A all state schools do as well. Personally I think private schools that take federally guaranteed student loan dollars should have to as well.

The concept of due process isn’t just a legal one, but also a procedural one.

The nonsensical argument that due process should only apply in court settings would bear weight if college administrators weren’t issuing judgment and punishment.

“I also have no idea WTF Biden could do.”

Good riddance 

Odds are they’re probably going into a secure housing unit on account of the high-profile nature of the case, the outrageousness of their offense (it’s a three-man lynch mob after all,) and the fact that one or two of them are former law enforcement. No only that, if you don’t think the correctional officers are going…

I agree with the idea of not making vaccinated people subsidize externalities in the system caused by unvaccinated people’s ridiculousness; I just wish this sort of action didn’t come down to the individual discretion of private actors and capitalists. Regardless, good on them.

I doubt the policies are worded in such a way that they could be held to include not getting vaccinated as (non-mental-illness-related) purposeful or deliberate self-harm as contemplated by any given policy exclusion. And even if written loosely enough to conceivably allow for that interpretation, the law requires…

Is this a universal rule? One of my closest friends since we were kids has done EMS in South Florida, Greenville, SC, and most recently spent 15 years in an EMS position in NYC where he spent like 15 years—dude has A LOT of stories (all from Miami and NYC, none from SC of this nature,) of showing up to a job where…

when they go to these other platforms, they discover very quickly that an ideological echo chamber is A) boring, B) doesn’t make news, and C) their followers on these sites are actual Nazis and white supremacists, and that’s a bad look for a professional politico.

kerning already alluded to the fact that California has a bill like this in the work targeting assault rifles, but there’s so much more than could be done with this. The real poison pill, which would drive home for SCOTUS the need to outlaw this absurd end run around the Constitution, would be to propose a bill that…

With regard to the Florida bill at least, I’m cautiously hopeful of it going nowhere. The bill was introduced by a rep from a particularly conservative county—and he remains the bill’s sole sponsor. Additionally, there appear to be several Republicans from various other districts who are opposed (for various reasons,)…