Sen. Patty Murray Patricia (Patty) Lynn MurrayTrump health officials grilled over reports of politics in COVID-19 response CDC director pushes back on Caputo claim of 'resistance unit' at agency The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by The Air Line Pilots Association - Pence lauds Harris as 'experienced debater'; Trump, Biden diverge over debate prep MORE (D-Wash.) on Monday called for a Department of Education official to be fired after she made comments that appeared to doubt the legitimacy of “90 percent” of campus sexual assault claims.

Candice Jackson, the head of the civil rights division at the department, apologized last week after a public outcry over her remarks, but Murray said she has a number of other concerns about Jackson, including that she “worked to narrow the role of the office” and reverse efforts to protected transgender students.

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“Despite her apology following a public outcry, Ms. Jackson’s callous, insensitive, and egregious comments regarding sexual assault on college campuses crossed a serious line and highlighted her clear biases in this area in a way that, to me and many women and men across the country, should disqualify her from service in the position of top Department of Education protector of students’ right to be safe at school,” Murray said in a statement.

Jackson told The New York Times last week that she believes the rights of students accused of sexual assault are ignored, and that male students are labeled rapists “when the facts just don’t back that up.”

"The accusations — 90 percent of them — fall into the category of ‘we were both drunk,’ ‘we broke up, and six months later I found myself under a Title IX investigation because she just decided that our last [time] sleeping together was not quite right,’ ” Jackson said.