Mary Anne Case on Trump's Defense of Bill O'Reilly

Why Trump's Defense of Bill O'Reilly Is So Baffling

Mary Anne Case, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, was rather more direct in ways that folks at Fox might want to mull.

“Trump’s saying ‘I don’t think Bill did anything wrong’ suggests he doesn’t think sexual harassment should be actionable, and the fact that he has that view ought to terrify, but not surprise, the women of America.”

It fits perfectly with Trump’s “grab them by the pussy” remarks captured during an “Access Hollywood” tape that was leaked to the press, Case said.

She concludes, “It suggests a worldview the prohibition of sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 sought to make extinct — the view that the workplace should be structured to suit the sexual whims of powerful men regardless of the effect this might have on the employment opportunities of women.”

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