Biden’s civil rights nominee remains unapologetically divisive on Title IX

The Department of Education’s former civil rights head Catherine Lhamon has not changed much over the past four years.

On Tuesday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing on President Joe Biden’s nominations to the Department of Education. Though three candidates came before the HELP Committee, one individual was front and center during the nearly two-hour-long meeting: Lhamon, Biden’s nominee for assistant secretary for civil rights.