Senator Biden Seeks to Fund Feminist Jurisprudence

Started by Mr. Bad, Jan 13, 2007, 08:22 AM

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Good grief, on the heels of the Duke LaCrosse scandal Senator Joe Biden has the nerve to propose a program to use public money to crank-out more feminist Nifong wannabes. 

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Biden Wants Legal Brigade for Domestic Safety
Run Date: 01/11/07
By Allison Stevens
Washington Bureau Chief

Sen. Biden is drafting a bill to encourage lawyers to work on behalf of domestic violence victims. The bill would also create a network of 100,000 legal volunteers. Seventh in our "Dangerous Trends, Innovative Responses" eight-part series.


WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)--When it comes to domestic violence, Sen. Joseph Biden likes to compare the federal government to a lawnmower.

"Combating violence in the home is like cutting the grass," the Democrat from Delaware is fond of saying. "You can't just do it once."

In other words, the scourge of domestic violence can't be cured with one piece of legislation or one round of federal spending, he says. It's a persistent problem that needs to be addressed year after year, one congressional session after the next.

That is why Biden--author of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which created and funded federal programs to help victims of domestic violence--keeps thinking about new ways to reduce violence against women. And now with his party in power in the House and Senate, he is in position to find more support.

His current plan involves legal assistance.

Only 170,000 low-income domestic violence survivors have legal representation each year, less than 20 percent of at least 1 million victims who experience it annually, according to a 2005 report by the Institute for Law and Justice in Alexandria, Va., and the National Center for Victims and Crime in Washington, D.C.
Creating a Legal Network

To address this need, Biden, an attorney, has written a bill that would create an electronic network of 100,000 lawyers willing to do volunteer work on behalf of victims of domestic violence. The bill would also set up a fund to help a separate group of lawyers--those who spend a majority of their time working on behalf of domestic violence victims--pay back their school loans.

The median salary for a lawyer who joins a private firm is $85,000, while the average entry-level public sector salary--such as a lawyer who works at a legal aid clinic--is $35,000, according to Biden. Most lawyers graduate with a combined debt from undergraduate and graduate school of more than $80,000, according to the American Bar Association in Chicago.

Biden's proposal comes at a time when the amount of domestic violence in the United States is dropping, although assaults and other crimes at the hands of intimates has remained at about 10 percent of all violent crimes over the past decade.

A report released last month by the Department of Justice indicated that the rate of intimate partner violence in the United States fell by more than half between 1993 and 2004, a finding that paralleled an overall decrease in violent crime during the same period. The rate of homicides, rapes, assaults and robberies against women fell from 10 in 1,000 to 4 in 1,000, according to the report.

The report is a sign of success that the VAWA programs are working, said Allison Randall, public policy director at the National Network to End Domestic Violence in Washington, D.C.


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We need to flood the blogosphere and internet in general with articles and commentary opposing this.  Given the Duke lynchmob scandal the timing of this is very good vis-a-vis mounting a strong opposition to this, as well as adding to our efforts to make feminism as politically incorrect as possible inside the beltway.

Here's Biden's contact info:  http://biden.senate.gov/

Let's get writing!
"Men in teams... got the human species from caves to palaces. When we watch men's teams at work, we pay homage to 10,000 years of male achievements; a record of vision, ingenuity and Herculean labor that feminism has been too mean-spirited to acknowledge."  Camille Paglia

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