WASHINGTON––U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) joined Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC) and 19 of their colleagues in criticizing the Biden administration’s proposed changes to Title IX – which pertain to rules for adjudicating sexual misconduct cases on college campuses – and calling for a 30-day extension of the public comment period.

In a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the senators underscored how the proposed changes to Title IX threaten students’ Constitutional right to due process and run counter to federal court precedent.

“Instead of upholding the key tenets of our judicial system, the Department’s proposal returns to the deeply flawed campus disciplinary process of the Obama administration, which was heavily criticized by liberal law professors, Democrats, and even a former liberal Supreme Court justice,” the senators wrote.

“Allegations of sexual assault and harassment are a serious and difficult issue, which is why the previous administration was careful to get the Title IX regulations right,” continued the lawmakers. “By contrast, the new proposed rule encourages institutions to adopt processes that have either been struck down or been viewed skeptically by multiple courts.”

The senators concluded, “Therefore, we ask that you, at a minimum, extend the public comment period by at least 30 days to ensure that the American public have the proper time to review this troublesome attack on due process protections and the expansion of Title IX.”

Joining Boozman and Burr on the letter were Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Braun (R-IN), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), James Lankford (R-OK), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Roger Wicker (R-MS).