U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) yesterday spoke on the Senate floor urging her colleagues to vote against the nomination of Carlos Muniz to be General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education.
In this role, Muniz would serve as the principal advisor on all legal matters affecting the DOE and would play a lead role in all rulemakings on issues, including Title IX. DOE Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Office of Civil Rights have rescinded Obama-era guidance related to Title IX enforcement of sexual violence.
As the DOE principal adviser to DeVos on all legal matters affecting departmental programs and activities, Muniz would help further DeVos’s efforts to roll back the important guidance to enforce Title IX protections, according to Gillibrand.
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