No, the article wasn't written by Hannity or Rush, it was written by Matt Taibbi, the leftist editor at Rolling Stone. Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties Of course the right has been saying the left has been abandoning civil rights for years, but now even some people on the left are noticing it, or at least starting to talk about it. And in a related story, the ACLU is suing to get rid of due process. ACLU sues Betsy DeVos over new campus sexual assault rules The rules championed by DeVos effectively bolster the rights of due process for those accused of sexual assault and harassment, allowing for live hearings and cross-examinations. What a weird world.
Psst Civil Liberties and Civil Rights are different concepts. Your problem here as I see it, is that colleges have no business running their own faux trials with witnesses, and testimony and expecting someone who may end up as a defendant in a criminal case, to actually 'testify' before a college committee. All that is 100% admissible in a criminal court, and no attorney that is sane, would allow his defendant client to participate for the same reason he won't allow his client to cooperate in a police interview. Colleges are actually endangering an effective defense pressuring for statements and 'cross examining' these potential defendants. They cannot cooperate with any proceeding that will compromise them later on. The fact a defendant does what his attorney advises, and refuses to participate, turns into some defacto admission that he has something to hide. And we have not even started looking at how what he says in their fake trial, impacts any civil case with a lesser burden. What you are selling as 'due process' outside of any real court proceeding, is actually criminal defense suicide in the real court proceeding.