Preserving due process on college campuses

Published October 2, 2026 5:00am ET



We may never know exactly what happened on a October 2024 night in a Cornell University fraternity house, but we should be thankful that the factual disputes and criminal liability will be sorted out in criminal court. We should also be thankful that when the university first investigated the incident in 2024, all parties were given notice of what they had been accused of and an opportunity to respond.

Successive Democratic administrations have tried to short-circuit that due process, and the Trump administration has now twice restored justice to college campuses. Hopefully, Democrats will stop using Title IX as a cudgel in the culture war.

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