candice jackson
<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://time.com/4857776/candice-jackson-sexual-assault-apology/">http://time.com/4857776/candice-jackson-sexual-assault-apology/</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[at same time devos meeting w/ men's gp <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/devos-sexual-assault-bf7801b8264c">https://thinkprogress.org/devos-sexual-assault-bf7801b8264c</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p name="8f70" id="8f70" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">DeVos has also <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/betsy-devos-sexual-violence-college-d2e5efba738" data-href="https://thinkprogress.org/betsy-devos-sexual-violence-college-d2e5efba738" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.44); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">donated</a> to a group that opposed the guidance. The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation made donations totaling $25,000 to Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which has shared articles dismissive of sexual assault survivors. One <a href="https://www.thefire.org/media-coverage/the-politics-of-campus-sexual-assault/" data-href="https://www.thefire.org/media-coverage/the-politics-of-campus-sexual-assault/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.44); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">read</a>, “Unfortunately, much of the feminist ‘war on rape’ has conflated sexual assault with muddled, often a<b>lcohol-fueled, sexual encounters that involve miscommunication.”</b></font></p><p name="c41b" id="c41b" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In April, the department <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/devos-candice-jackson-civil-rights-office-education-department" data-href="https://www.propublica.org/article/devos-candice-jackson-civil-rights-office-education-department" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.44); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">welcomed</a> Candice Jackson as the deputy assistant secretary and acting assistant secretary of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which oversees investigations into how universities handle campus rape.<b> Jackson has previously called the women who accused Trump of sexual assault during the campaign “<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3559439-CandiceJacksonFacebook.html" data-href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3559439-CandiceJacksonFacebook.html" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.44); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">fake victims</a>.”</b></font></p><p name="6765" id="6765" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Whatever the department decides on the 2011 guidance, it is already making moves that would adversely affect sexual assault survivors. An internal Office for Civil Rights memo sent by Jackson <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/16/education-department-suggests-less-expansive-approach-ocr-investigations" data-href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/16/education-department-suggests-less-expansive-approach-ocr-investigations" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.44); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">narrows</a> the approach of investigations into civil rights complaints, which includes campus rape. This means that the department will stop requiring staff to look at three years of complaint information in order to understand systemic discrimination within a school district or university. The memo also loosened oversight of regional offices.]</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="232" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">(WASHINGTON) — The Education Department's top civil rights official's "flippant" remarks are raising questions about the government's commitment to fighting campus sexual violence, even as she issued her second apology in as many days for attributing 90 percent of sexual assault claims to both parties being drunk.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="234" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Candice Jackson, assistant secretary for civil rights, told victims of sexual assault meeting with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday that she was sorry for her remarks.</p><div data-reactid="236" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="237" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">"As much as I appreciate apologies, which are difficult, unfortunately, there's n—k. It's out there," said Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women's Law Center, who attended the meeting and relayed Jackson's apology Thursday. "What's extremely important now is that they do the hard work to counter those sorts of rape myths. They need to explicitly reject them."</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="239" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">DeVos also met Thursday with people who say they were falsely accused and disciplined and representatives of colleges and universities to talk about the impact of stepped-up efforts by the Obama administration to enforce the law known as Title IX as it relates to sexual assault. "This is an issue we're not getting right," she said afterward.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="241" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">The lawyer for a college football player who says he was falsely accused of sexual assault says DeVos sees federal rules on enforcement as unfair and in need of change.</p><div class="medium-offset-1 dont-print _2R4B45U9" data-reactid="243" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 60.8281px; float: left; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="show-for-large" data-reactid="244" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="3RD_3EaM" data-reactid="246" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(233, 6, 6); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 1px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 1px 5px 0px; display: inline-block; height: 281px; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px; position: relative; width: 225px;"><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large 10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="269" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Kerry Sutton was in the room with DeVos on Thursday when six people told "gut-wrenching" stories about being falsely accused of sexual violence on campus. "They made the point that we're not saying that sexual assault victims don't have important rights," she told The Associated Press. "We're just saying that the system has to be fair."</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="271" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Sutton represents University of North Carolina football player Allen Artis, who was charged last year with misdemeanor sexual battery and assault on a female. He was suspended from football but has since been reinstated. He has said the encounter was consensual.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="273" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">DeVos' "listening sessions" came the day after Jackson was quoted in The New York Times as saying federal rules have resulted in many false accusations.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="275" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">In most investigations, Jackson told the newspaper, there's "not even an accusation that these accused students overrode the will of a young woman."</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="277" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">"Rather, the accusations — 90 percent of them — fall into the category of, 'We were both drunk, we broke up, and six months later I found myself under a Title IX investigation because she just decided that our last sleeping together was not quite right,'" Jackson is quoted as saying in an interview.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="279" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">In her apology on Wednesday night, Jackson said, "What I said was flippant, and I am sorry." She sought to issue reassurances that both she and the department believe "all sexual harassment and sexual assault must be taken seriously."</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="281" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Asked about the civil rights official's remarks, DeVos noted that Jackson had apologized.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="283" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Advocates for assault survivors who have spent years trying to get schools to take victims and a "rape culture" seriously worry that DeVos' series of roundtable meetings are really a preview for changing former President Barack Obama's guidance.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="285" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, called Jackson's statements unsubstantiated and said it minimizes the serious problem of sexual violence on campuses.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="287" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">"For months, DeVos' Education Department has sent a chilling message to students and survivors by openly questioning Obama-era rules to protect students," Weingarten said. "DeVos' meetings today with so-called men's rights groups, and other fringe groups that want to silence sexual assault survivors' voices, legitimatize those efforts."</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="289" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Sen. Patty Murray, the senior Democrat on the Senate committee overseeing the Education Department, said in a letter to DeVos that Jackson's remark "suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of campus sexual assault and suggests that (Jackson's office) is not prepared to take accounts from survivors seriously."</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="291" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">But groups representing those who say they have been falsely accused suggest the Obama-era guidance weighted campus justice systems in favor of those alleging sexual violence. Jackson said in the Times interview that investigations have not been "fairly balanced between the accusing victim and the accused student."</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="293" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Many of those who want Obama's guidance reversed have said they want assault cases referred to law enforcement.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="295" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">As of Wednesday, there were 344 open sexual violence investigations at 242 postsecondary schools, according to a Title IX report provided by the Education Department.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="297" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Several schools had multiple cases pending, including Kansas State University and Indiana University at Bloomington with five each, the department list shows.</p><p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 end text size-1x-large line-height-large _10M0Ygc4" data-reactid="299" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 121.656px; font-size: 1.075rem; width: 608.328px; float: left; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 1.6; font-family: " pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia">Baylor University in Texas had a single open case. The school has been embroiled in controversy over its handling of sexual assault allegations, and several women have sued. Art Briles was fired as football coach and Ken Starr was demoted from president and later resigned after a law firm reported in May 2016 that an investigation had found that the school had "created barriers" discouraging the reporting of sexual assaults.</p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">he new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights once complained that she experienced discrimination because she is white.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">As an undergraduate studying calculus at Stanford University in the mid-1990s, Candice Jackson “gravitated” toward a section of the class that provided students with extra help on challenging problems, she wrote in a student publication. Then she learned that the section was reserved for minority students.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">“I am especially disappointed that the University encourages these and other discriminatory programs,” she wrote in the Stanford Review. “We need to allow each person to define his or her own achievements instead of assuming competence or incompetence based on race.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Although her limited background in civil rights law makes it difficult to infer her positions on specific issues, Jackson’s writings during and after college suggest she’s likely to steer one of the Education Department’s most important — and controversial — branches in a different direction than her predecessors. A longtime anti-Clinton <a href="http://www.theirlivesfoundation.net/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">activist</a>and an outspoken conservative-turned-libertarian, she has denounced feminism and race-based preferences. She’s also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130120205354/http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Jackson1.PDF" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">written favorably about</a>, and helped edit a book by, an economist who decried both compulsory education and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Jackson’s inexperience, along with speculation that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will roll back civil rights enforcement, lead some observers to wonder whether Jackson, like several other Trump administration appointees, lacks sympathy for the traditional mission of the office she’s been chosen to lead.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Her appointment “doesn’t leave me with a feeling of confidence with where the administration might be going,” said Theodore Shaw, director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law, who led Barack Obama’s transition team for civil rights at the Department of Justice.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">“I hope that she’s not going to be an adversary to the civil rights community and I hope that the administration is going to enforce civil rights laws and represent the best interests of those who are affected by civil rights issues.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">On Wednesday, DeVos formally <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-secretary-education-announces-chief-staff-and-additional-staff-hires" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">announced</a> Jackson’s position as deputy assistant secretary in the Office for Civil Rights, a role that does not require Senate confirmation. The 39-year-old attorney will act as assistant secretary in charge of the office until that position is filled. DeVos has not yet selected a nominee, who would have to receive Senate confirmation. As acting head, Jackson is in charge of about <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/ocr/report-to-president-and-secretary-of-education-2016.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">550 full-time department staffers</a>, who are responsible for investigating thousands of civil rights complaints each year.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Jackson referred ProPublica’s interview request to the U.S. Department of Education, which did not respond to our request. Neither Jackson nor the department responded to ProPublica’s emailed questions.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Jackson takes over an office that has been responsible for protecting students from racial, gender, disability and age discrimination for decades. Under the Obama administration, the office increased its caseload. It emphasized to colleges that they could <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/guidance-pse-201111.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">give preferences</a> to minorities and women to achieve diversity, and advised them to be more <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201104.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">aggressive</a> in investigating allegations of rape and sexual harassment on campus. Some of the guidance from the office provoked <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/10/trump-and-gop-likely-try-scale-back-title-ix-enforcement-sexual-assault" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">controversy</a>, particularly among Republicans who have long called for the office to be <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/the-office-for-civil-rights-volatile-power/519072/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">scaled</a> back.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Jackson grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where her parents operate two medical practices, specializing in <a href="http://www.ashbrookmedical.com/about" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">family</a> and <a href="http://ashbrookbeauty.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">aesthetic</a> medicine. Her father, Dr. Rick Jackson, also ran <a href="http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/apr/19/ricky-lee-jackson/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">unsuccessfully</a> for Congress and is a country music singer under the name Ricky Lee Jackson. Jackson’s brothers have acting and music careers as well. Jackson and her mother have helped provide “business and legal” management for her father and brothers, according to a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160930172024/http://www.candiceejackson.com/Bio_Attorney.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">biography</a> on her website from 2016.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">In 2009, Jackson co-wrote a <a href="http://www.freedomfamilyandfaith.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Christian country song</a> with her father and brother, called “Freedom, Family and Faith.” The lyrics had an anti-government tinge: “Some politician wants our liberty/ They say just trust me, we’re all family/ I’ve got a family and hey, it’s not you/ Don’t need Big Brother to see us through.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">While in college, Jackson joined the Stanford Review as a junior, after <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/candiceejackson/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">transferring</a> to the university in 1996 from a community college in Los Angeles. When she arrived, according to a Review article she wrote during her senior year, she was “eager to carry the message of freedom to Stanford through the only conservative publication on campus.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Eric Jackson, no relation, who is Candice’s friend, former classmate and book <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2006/10/38197/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">publisher</a>, said the conservative perspective of the Stanford Review often went against the status quo on campus. It took “courage,” he said, to write for the publication, which was <a href="https://stanfordreview.org/a-brief-and-non-exhaustive-history-of-the-stanford-review-b238185ef3d2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">co-founded</a> in 1987 by PayPal billionaire and Donald Trump <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-supreme-court-236925" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">adviser</a> Peter Thiel. “A number of us got death threats,” he recalled.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">One topic of heated debate on campus was affirmative action, which California <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Affirmative_Action,Proposition_209_(1996)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">banned</a> in public institutions, such as universities, in 1996. The prohibition did not affect private universities, like Stanford, which could continue to employ preferential policies both in admissions and in special programs designed to assist minority students in college-level math and science courses.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">During her senior year, Candice Jackson penned her objections in an op-ed, contending the university “promotes racial discrimination” with its practices.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">“As with most liberal solutions to a problem, giving special assistance to minority students is a band-aid solution to a deep problem,” she wrote. “No one, least of all the minority student, is well served by receiving special treatment based on race or ethnicity.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Jackson was far from the only critic of such minority-only programs. In 2003, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/12/us/mit-to-open-two-programs-for-minorities-to-all-races.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">opened</a> up similar programs to all races.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">In another article Jackson penned for the Review during her senior year, entitled “How I Survived Stanford Without Entering the Women’s Center,” she condemned feminism on campus.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">“In today’s society, women have the same opportunities as men to advance their careers, raise families, and pursue their personal goals,” she wrote. “College women who insist on banding together by gender to fight for their rights are moving backwards, not forwards.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">In the article, she encouraged women to choose conservatism over feminism. “I think many women are instinctively conservative, but are guided into the folds of feminism before discovering the conservative community,” she wrote.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">She concluded, “[t]he real women’s issues are conservative ones.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Her former Stanford Review colleague, Eric Jackson, told ProPublica that her college writings are nearly 20 years old and that it’s important to understand the context of her commentary. “The feminist culture she was critiquing was different than what happens today,” he said. Jackson, he added, is “very pro-woman.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">After Stanford, Jackson “exchanged conservatism for libertarianism,” she later wrote. She did a summer fellowship at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a free-market think tank in Auburn, Alabama, according to an <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3559441-Copyrightpage-Rothbard.html#document/p1/a348754" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">institute publication</a>. The institute was reportedly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/us/politics/rand-pauls-mixed-inheritance.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">founded with money</a> raised by former congressman and 1988 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ron Paul, and is a leading hub of contemporary libertarian scholars.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">While at the Institute, Jackson provided <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3559441-Copyrightpage-Rothbard.html#document/p1/a348754" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">editorial assistance</a> on a book of collected essays by the institute’s co-founder, economic historian Murray N. Rothbard. A charismatic figure who devoted his life to ideas, Rothbard died a few years before Jackson’s fellowship. Mark Thornton, an economist and a senior fellow at the Mises Institute who vaguely recalled Jackson but did not specifically remember her role at the center, said that her editorial assistance may have involved proofreading.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Rothbard’s 1999 book, “Education: Free and Compulsory,” advocated for a voluntary education system, denouncing government-mandated schooling. Currently, all U.S. <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/statereform/tab5_1.asp" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">states</a> require students to attend school until they are at least 16 years old.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">“To force these children to be exposed to schooling, as the State does almost everywhere, is a criminal offense to their natures,” wrote Rothbard. “In any case, the instruction has almost no effect on these children, many of whose hours of life are simply wasted because of the State’s decree.”This was not Jackson’s only connection to Rothbard’s work. She also wrote <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130120205354/http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/Jackson1.PDF" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">two</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/41560289" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">papers</a> analyzing his theories. One essay compared his philosophy to that of libertarian novelist Ayn Rand. In the other, she wrote that his 1982 book, “The Ethics of Liberty,” “shines as a monumental achievement, meeting Rothbard’s goal of setting forth ‘a positive ethical system … to establish the case for individual liberty.’”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">In other <a href="https://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch69.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">essays</a>, published on a former colleague’s website, Rothbard <a href="https://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch69.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">called</a> the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “monstrous,” and <a href="https://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch69.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">lambasted</a> one provision of it, which prohibited employment discrimination, as “a horrendous invasion of the property rights of the employer.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Rothbard was “about as fringe as you could be and still be a tenured professor,” said Bryan Caplan, an economics professor at George Mason University, who met him twice.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">If someone was a follower of Rothbard, Caplan told ProPublica, “instead of thinking of discrimination as a rampant problem, they would say the free market would take care of it.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Jackson has often collaborated on articles with William Anderson, an <a href="https://mises.org/profile/william-l-anderson" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">associate scholar</a> at the Mises Institute and a professor of economics at Frostburg State University in Maryland. Their work has appeared in the publication <a href="https://reason.com/people/candice-e-jackson/all" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Reason</a> and on the <a href="https://archive.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson125.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">website</a> of Llewellyn Rockwell, a co-founder and <a href="https://mises.org/profile/llewellyn-h-rockwell-jr" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">chairman</a> of the Mises Institute.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Anderson, who told ProPublica that he has known Jackson for years, said that she would likely approach her position at the Education Department from “the standpoint of individual rights and due process.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">After graduating from Pepperdine University’s School of Law in 2002, Jackson also <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/candiceejackson/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">worked</a> for Judicial Watch, a conservative legal advocacy group, for nearly two years as a litigation counsel, according to her LinkedIn page.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">In the past few years, she has operated her own law firm. According to a recent biography on her <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150723042528/http://www.candiceejackson.com/Bio_Attorney.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">website</a>, her practice specialized in “business, entertainment, and litigation matters,” for a range of clients, “from restaurants to medical clinics, and from authors and musicians to filmmakers and record labels.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">In 2005, Jackson wrote a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Their-Lives-Targeted-Clinton-Machine/dp/0974670138" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">book</a> on the allegations of sexual misconduct against Bill Clinton, titled “Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine.” She gained national attention last October after she <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/how-trump-decided-to-make-clinton-accusers-a-campaign-issue.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">arranged</a> for several of Bill Clinton’s accusers to attend a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Jackson sat with the women in the front of the audience. A few days before the debate, Jackson established <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3559444-604043938-Their-Lives-Foundation.html#document/p1/a348755" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Their Lives Foundation</a>. In registration documents, she described two of its purposes as “giving public voice to victims of women who abuse positions of power” and “advocating for and against candidates for political office.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Less than a week after the debate, Jackson <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/tylerkingkade/the-lawyer-who-helped-clinton-rape-accusers-may-have-scored?utm_term=.liQjmqAK7e#.ej6ZKYBG8X" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">posted</a> on <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3559439-CandiceJacksonFacebook.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Facebook</a> that her foundation “supports all victims of power abusers,” but labeled Trump’s accusers “fake victims.” Since the initial announcement of her Education Department role, her Facebook page has been taken offline.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"></p></div></div></div></div></div>