WASHINGTON ― Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a lifetime seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, said she regrets her past articles that blamed women for date rape and claimed that “dangerous feminist idealism” teaches women they are equal to men. She’s raised eyebrows with her musings on race, LGBTQ issues and climate change, but her writings on sexual assault and date rape have gotten the most attention. In a 1994 op-ed in The Yale Herald, Rao argued that “a woman, like a man, decides when and how much to drink. “I very much regret that statement,” Rao replied, saying she strongly believes in the equality of men and women.

Source: Huffington Post February 06, 2019 00:00 UTC