Trump administration changing definitions of domestic violence and sexual assault

[Beringia]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-domestic-abuse-sexual-assault-definition-womens-rights-justice-department-a8744546.html?fbclid=IwAR2nqieFyOB3_ZK94boeR2fa_Aeem1e1eticGXnncq5o48uz7Wo61qvr72k


The Trump Justice Department’s definition only considers physical harm that constitutes a felony or misdemeanour to be domestic violence – meaning other forms of domestic violence such as psychological abuse, coercive control and manipulation no longer fall under the department’s definition.

Holly Taylor-Dunn, a senior lecturer at the University of Worcester who has been working in the field of domestic and sexual violence for 17 years, said she was shocked by the move.

The academic, who has worked in frontline roles in the domestic violence sector and used to be a domestic abuse officer for the police, argued the Trump administration’s decision turned the clock back 50 years.

“I was massively surprised and really shocked," she said. "It is quite scary how quietly it has happened. It is a massive step backwards. We have literally gone back to the 70s. We have worked so hard since the 60s and 70s to get domestic abuse and sexual violence understood as being about more than physical violence. Changing the definition to take it back to being about physical harm completely undermines what domestic abuse is about”.

[niyad]

1. thank you for reporting this latest attack in the continued war on women.

FUCK that misogynistic piece of orange filth and his DoJ.

and FUCK all those who think that domestic violence is okay.

[Delmette2.0]

2. Other than WTF! I am speechless.

No, I'm not. Got to hell, go directly to hell and stay there you misogynistic assholes.

[CrispyQ]

3. Of course they have.

The goal is to inflict as much harm & damage as possible & to do it to those who are most vulnerable & to do it in the most cruel way possible.

I hate this orange shithole & anyone who still supports him.

[mopinko]

4. the real deep state.

spanky, himself, does not work hard enough to accomplish this.
so, who, exactly, did this?

[Beringia]

5. Good question

[dhill926]

6. stinks of Miller perhaps...

[mopinko]

8. or maybe rob porter started it out,

and a fellow traveler picked it up.
it's assholes all the way down.

one thing of which i am certain- the person who pushed this was guilty of same.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I thought the legislature makes the law, the courts interpret and the

executive branch execute the law. How is it that they are now redefining the law?

[mopinko]

9. how are they doing any of it?

how are they setting tariffs? that power is only available to the president in matters of national security. but here we are.