womens-safety-legislation
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Dispatches
- March 4, 2026 · Dispatch
The House rejects Mace's bid to release unproven harassment records, 357-65
On March 4, 2026, the House voted 357-65 to reject Rep. Nancy Mace's resolution directing the Ethics Committee to publicly release its records of alleged member sexual misconduct, including allegations the Committee had never substantiated. The bipartisan objection was about due process: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the measure was rushed and could expose both the accused and victims to the release of unproven claims, and the Ethics Committee warned it would chill victim cooperation. The lopsided vote made it the rare Mace women's-safety measure that even most of her own party would not support as written.
Wiki & people
Mace's Deepfake Bills and Takedown Power Without Process
Rep. Nancy Mace's deepfake and revenge-porn bills, and the RESPECT Act she built to strengthen the TAKE IT DOWN Act's takedown regime, advance a removal system that the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a twelve-group civil-liberties coalition warn has no safeguard against false or bad-faith takedown demands: content comes offline on an unverified report, within 48 hours, with no process for the person who posted it. The harm these bills target is real, but the enforcement model hands a delete button to anyone willing to file a claim. This page documents that critique and the bills behind it.
June 20, 2026 · Wiki
Rape Shield Enhancement Act: Narrowing the Accused's Defense
Of all Rep. Nancy Mace's women's-safety bills, the Rape Shield Enhancement Act (H.R. 10094, reintroduced as H.R. 3596) is the one aimed at the rights of the accused themselves. It would direct changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence that further restrict what a criminal defendant may introduce about an accuser and narrow the defense's access to an accuser's records. Legal authorities have long recognized that each expansion of rape-shield protection collides with the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause and the accused's right to present a defense; this bill leans into that tension rather than resolving it.
June 20, 2026 · Wiki
Nancy Mace's Bills and the Rights of the Accused
Rep. Nancy Mace has used her House Oversight chairmanship and her 'leading voice on women's issues' brand to advance a series of measures that strip protections from the accused: a resolution to publish accusations the House Ethics Committee never proved (rejected 357-65), a takedown regime that removes online content on an unverified report, and a bill narrowing what a criminal defendant may show a jury. Named legal and civil-liberties critics, and members of both parties, warn these erode due process and tilt the process against the accused. This page documents those measures first, then the full verified ledger of her women's-safety bills.
June 20, 2026 · Wiki