Author: I Have The Right To Team

Biden judicial appointment hangs in the wind as senators mull action in past case

Written by I Have The Right To Team on March 3, 2023. Posted in Newsroom.

By Jeremy Diamond and Lauren Fox
CNN
10 min read

Two weeks after President Joe Biden’s nominee for a prized federal judgeship appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a majority of Democrats on that panel have yet to commit to supporting his nomination.

The Life Altering Impact of Chessy Prout’s Memoir on Me

Written by I Have The Right To Team on March 2, 2023. Posted in Blog.

By Brylie Turk
4 minute read

Reading Chessy’s book had a massive impact on me as the survivor of a middle school sexual assault. While I have been told time and time again “You’re not alone,” this did not truly resonate with me until learning about Chessy’s journey. I have spoken with and been encouraged by countless survivors throughout my healing, but none of them had shared my experiences of betrayal by my peers and school system, and none had been so close to my age.

Michael Delaney’s role as a lawyer in a notorious N.H. sexual assault case creates problems for his judicial nomination

Written by I Have The Right To Team on March 1, 2023. Posted in Newsroom.

By Jim Puzzanghera
The Boston Globe
6 minute read

In many ways, former New Hampshire attorney general Michael Delaney was a logical choice to be nominated to a vacancy on the US First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, and at first he appeared to be on a glide path for confirmation.

Open Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee from I Have The Right To Executive Director

Written by I Have The Right To Team on February 27, 2023. Posted in Blog.

By Elizabeth Zeigler
3 minute read

Dear Senators,

I am Elizabeth Zeigler, Executive Director of I Have The Right To, a registered 501 (c)(3) founded by Chessy Prout and her parents after Chessy came forward publicly to claim her name and story rather than be intimidated into silence by Michael Delaney and the motion he filed on behalf of St. Paul’s School.

Opinion: Former AG who silenced sexual assault survivors slated to become federal judge

Written by I Have The Right To Team on February 27, 2023. Posted in Newsroom.

By Alexander Prout and Susan Prout
Asheville Citizen Times
3 minute read

Before former New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney went before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, we hoped the hearing would be a referendum on progress since the #MeToo movement. That Delaney still has a shot at serving on a federal court bench means we are falling far short of making any meaningful progress.

I know Michael Delaney. After what he did, he doesn’t deserve to be a judge.

Written by I Have The Right To Team on February 23, 2023. Posted in Newsroom.

His nomination shows me and other survivors of sexual assault that the Biden administration approves of what Delaney and St. Paul’s School put me and my family through.

by Chessy Prout, The Boston Globe
3.5 minute read

Michael Delaney Isn’t The First Judicial Nominee To Traumatize Child Sexual Abuse Survivors

Written by I Have The Right To Team on February 22, 2023. Posted in Newsroom.

By B.R.
Daily Wire
5 min read

Last week, senators grilled President Biden’s judicial nominee Michael Delaney about the aggressive tactics he used against a child sexual abuse survivor while representing St. Paul’s boarding school. Mr. Delaney asked a court to publicly reveal the identity of a child sexual abuse survivor that sued St. Paul’s under the pseudonym “Jane Doe.” Mr. Delaney’s tactics sadden me, but they don’t surprise me.

A Second Call To Action – URGENT

Written by I Have The Right To Team on February 20, 2023. Posted in Blog.

We Need Your Action and Voices!

TO: Advocates for Sexual Assault Survivors and Children

RE: FOLLOWING THE 2/15 SENATE HEARING, PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND THEIR RIGHT TO PRIVACY. HAVE YOUR VOICE COUNTED IN THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE RECORD BY ASKING THEM TO VOTE “NO” TO MICHAEL DELANEY’S NOMINATION.

St. Paul’s School Partial Objection and Conditional Assent to Plaintiff’s Motion for Leave to Proceed Under Pseudonyms.

Written by I Have The Right To Team on February 20, 2023. Posted in Newsroom.

See filing here

First Circuit Nominee Excoriated at Hearing

Written by I Have The Right To Team on February 17, 2023. Posted in Newsroom.

By Carrie Campbell Severino, National Review
3 minute read

Yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing did not go well for Michael Delaney, President Biden’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Delaney was repeatedly pressed by Republican senators over his role in pushing to publicly name an underage female victim of sexual assault while representing a prep school in Concord, New Hampshire, in a case he litigated.