Our laws must make clear that intoxication is not consent

Our laws must make clear that intoxication is not consent

Recent allegations involving Eric Swalwell, as reported in the press, have once again brought forward a pattern that lawmakers hear far too often. Someone goes out for a night with friends or colleagues and wakes up the next morning with only fragments of memory, left to piece together what happened and whether they were violated. In many of these cases, survivors describe their last clear memory as something ordinary: a drink, a conversation, a…