Proposal to add campus sex rules to criminal law dies after massive backlash | The College Fix

"The American Bar Association, like the more elite American Law Institute before it, is not yet ready to remake the criminal courts in the image of Title IX campus courts.

At its annual meeting Monday night, the ABA’s House of Delegates voted to shelve a resolution that would have originally recommended that “affirmative consent” be added to the criminal code for sexual offenses....

It’s a common consent standard on college campuses, and it’s functionally impossible to meet. In criminal trials, affirmative consent would flip the burden of proof from the government to the defendant. It would functionally spur even more plea bargains...."