The latest campus rape show trial, this one involving a rape accusation at Amherst College in Massachusetts, is finally in a real courtroom. The student expelled by Amherst College after being subjected to an extralegal rape “trial” on the university’s campus is suing the school.
The particulars of the Amherst kangaroo court’s actions against this male student are, to put it mildly, insane. The alleged offense itself involves an act of oral sex that would, if anything, indict the accuser, not the accused, of sexual impropriety.
For background, KC Johnson, who has done more than anyone to expose the campus rape tribunal fraud, wrote about this case in 2015 and updated the accused student’s lawsuit against Amherst last month. Johnson is an American history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center.
I fully endorse every effort to shut down the extralegal campus rape tribunal system, and I hope the young man expelled from Amherst takes the school to the proverbial cleaners. But conservatives watching this case closely are making a bit too much of a decision by a federal judge in Washington State to quash one motion to subpoena the purported victim for crucial evidence about her actions.