In a recent lawsuit against the Trump administration over the issue of how sexual misconduct should be defined and enforced on college campuses, New York Attorney General Letitia James is challenging new federal regulations that increase rights for accused students. The regulations do so, in part, by allowing schools to use a harder-to-meet standard of proof in order to establish culpability: Clear and convincing evidence of a student’s misconduct as opposed to a preponderance of the evidence.

New York state has lodged its own lawsuit, separate and apart from an 18-state coalition, controlled by Democrat governors, that launched a very similar federal suit in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. New York’s decision to act alone appears to represent, at least in part, the gravity with which James and her colleagues view the now-final regulatory overhaul of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The sweeping changes reportedly represent the achievement of a key policy goal for the Trump administration and its education secretary, Betsy DeVos.

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