Back on Sept. 11, in a House hearing devoted to the alleged crisis of sexual assault on college campuses, Representative Jared Polis of Colorado, a Democrat, made the astounding assertion that it would be better to expel numerous men who’ve been falsely accused than to let even on guilty one stay on campus. Apparently, he disagrees with the foundational idea behind due process of law that we must have completely fair procedures to protect against the possibility of punishing even one innocent person.

In this column on USA Today, University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds takes Polis to task. He points out, inter alia, that being expelled from a school is apt to have serious, lifelong consequences, contrary to what Polis thinks.

My own observation is that Polis has inadvertently shown how little “liberals” care about justice for actual people. Sure, they wail all the time about the supposed injustice of statistical disparities between groups (“It’s so unjust that this group earns more than that group; so unjust that this group has lower SAT scores than that group” and so on), but they are indifferent to palpable injustices that their various crusades inflict on individuals.