"Jim Jordan 'bout to go through some things. 🤨"
Link to tweet
The Supreme Court left in place a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss.
Two cases involving the abuse were on a list of many cases the court said it would not hear. And, as is typical, the court did not comment in saying it would not hear the cases.
Ohio State University had urged the court to review a ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that revived lawsuits that had been dismissed. The men who sued are among hundreds of former student-athletes and other alumni who say they were abused by Strauss, who worked at the school from 1978 to 1998.
They say university officials failed to stop him despite complaints raised as early as the late 1970s. Many of them allege Strauss abused them during required physicals and other medical exams at campus athletic facilities, a student health center, his home and an off-campus clinic.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ohio-state-abuse-richard-strauss-57b547932ffeaa015c6f85a994276e32
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Yelling louder with complete gibberish (as opposed to barely tethered rants we're used to) at the Hearings from now on.
More than 100 former Ohio State students say they were sexually assaulted by a former university athletic doctor. Jim Jordan maintains he knew nothing.
More than 100 former Ohio State students say they were sexually assaulted by a former university athletic doctor, the university announced Friday about an ongoing investigation.
The scandal gained national attention earlier this month, after more than five former wrestlers claimed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) ignored the sexual abuse of athletes and students by a former team doctor during his tenure as the assistant coach of Ohio State’s wrestling team from 1986 to 1994. Jordan, who spoke with investigators this week, has continued to deny knowing anything about the abuse.
Turning your back on crime has its downside.
Jordan has been accused (in the past) of 'knowing and not reporting.' And that is a serious allegation (and an absolute moral/ethical failure). However, that does not support your assertion that (legal) charges have been laid against him as an individual.
(and that was all that was implied in my post)
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Edit: here is the most complete (unsourced) account from the link provided
GOP Rep Jim Jordan sued for failing to prevent sexual abuse at Ohio State
Jul 18, 2018
Embattled Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has been named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit filed by former Ohio State athletes who say they were sexually abused by the school's sports doctor, Richard Strauss. over a twenty-year period.
Jordan was assistant wrestling coach at OSU for eight of those years, overlapping with Strauss' tenure for all of that time. Eleven of Jordan's former wrestlers say that they can't imagine how Jordan didn't know about the serial sexual abuse of his wrestlers, who spoke about it openly; and two of Jordan's former students claim they told Jordan about the abuse, and he did nothing. Jordan continues to claim he was unaware.
and then from Rolling Stone: -
Jordan, the jut-jawed anti-gay crusader who’s the fourth-ranking Republican leader in the House, is singled out in the suit: He’s one of only three former school officials named, including Strauss, though the action is aimed at all the coaches, administrators and others in positions of responsibility at OSU who, it claims, stood by while students and student-athletes were repeatedly “sexually abused, harassed, and molested,” and “forced” to seek treatment from a well-known predator even after they complained.
They'll be gathering further evidence of the coverup, and maybe later we'll find out whether he's named with those who they subpoena and depose.
I'd love to have his name confirmed, but it's just too soon to know, nevermind celebrate as if he's really part of the suit. Everyone loves to hope it's true, but that doesn't make the tweet true. It doesn't even mean that we can know he's feeling any pressure over this case. Just sayin'.
Not that prosecutors ever use social media postings or television interviews against someone in court...
As an aside, I adore the image from Brazil you chose on your account!
What a prescient film!
I'm honestly amazed in our current time line when anything other than Y'all Qaeda's Nat-C Fascist is further advanced!
Things will always be as they are and rarely as one might have it to be.
In this case, I did not expect Nat-C SCOTUS to allow this to go forward.
I'm really pleased that the opportunity now exists.
This is progress. Nothing is "fixed".
This is merely an opportunity for these individuals to seek judicial redress.
I can't say that if I had been abused as they, that I would not have sought extrajudicial remedies.
Having further standing before the law has long been needed.
This is that!!
Here's to you have a great day deelee!!