At the beginning of 2016, commentators, including myself, began to seriously question GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s commitment to due process rights for college students accused of wrongdoing — specifically of sexual assault. Rubio finally addressed those concerns in a news release on his campaign website.

The questions technically began on Dec. 30, 2015, when K.C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor (co-authors of a book about the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax) called Rubio and several other senators out for their support of a dangerous campus sexual assault bill. The bill would codify into law all of the guilty-until-proven-innocent tactics of the Education Department, while providing no substantive due process rights for accused students to defend themselves.