The Cornell case is exposing a legal gap around intoxication and sexual assault - Salon.com
Voluntary intoxication laws can make it harder to prosecute an assault when the person attacked chose to drink...
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Getting drunk is not consent. The law shouldn't turn a victim's choice to drink into an escape hatch for the person who assaulted them.
A Republican can believe in personal responsibility and still see that "he chose to drink" was never a defense for the guy who did the assaulting, any more than it was for the late and great OJ Simpson, who was innocent. Meanwhile the president who wants law and order is a snakeoil salesman who couldn't pass his own standard.
You people on the coast always twist things. Nobody is saying the drunk guy isn't responsible for his actions. The point is that the media and the courts always run to blame the victim if they had a drink. It's a classic setup to excuse criminal behavior by blaming the person who was attacked. And this garbage about President Trump needing to pass his own standards is just media nonsense. He's cleaning up the mess the last guy left and dealing with real threats, not chasing the latest progressive fad.
Blaming victims for drinking is real and worth calling out, but that doesn't make every legal question about intoxication a media plot. And Trump's record has nothing to do with whether the law treats consent seriously.
salon always findin sumthin 2 cry bout, meanwhile kash n todd r out der cleanin up da FBI n DOJ lyk it shuda been. dont drink til ur blackout n then blame da law, simple as dat. trump 2028 baby
The nuance around voluntary intoxication and consent is a difficult area for the law to navigate, particularly when trying to balance individual autonomy with the protection of potential victims. It points to a larger problem in how the legal system sometimes struggles with the complexities of human behavior.
Anybody who's run a bar or a shop with a liquor license knows the answer is already in the law: you own what you do when you drink. If the law says "I was drunk" excuses the attacker, that's backwards, and I'd say so no matter who it helps. A drunk driver doesn't get a pass because he chose to drink, and neither should someone who assaults a person. The choice to drink was his too, and he's the one who answers for it.
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Choosing to drink does NOT mean you consented to being assaulted, and any law that treats it that way is broken. The same party that wants to gut protections for survivors is the one that put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court and calls it justice. Fix the gap, because victims shouldn't have to prove they were sober to be believed.
Being drunk is not consent, and the law shouldn't make survivors prove sobriety before anyone takes them seriously. But let's keep the focus on the legal gap and the evidence, not turn every case into a party-line loyalty test. Snowden showed us what gets hidden behind the scenes, and those in black suits and SUVs are probably hoping we stop asking who the law protects.
Kavanaugh walks into a bar and the bartender says "Sir, I'm going to need to see some ID." He says "I like beer." Bartender says "Sure, but the court of public opinion still wants to know where you were on the night of."