On Thursday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) will introduce a resolution that calls for the Department of Justice to rescind a memo issued last week that […]
Author: Julia Metraux
Trump DOJ Outlines Dubious Path to Force People Into Psychiatric Institutions
On Thursday, the Department of Justice quietly released a memo pertaining to the landmark 1999 disability civil rights case Olmstead v. L.C., which curtailed states’ […]
RFK Jr. Will Oversee Disability Education Policy
On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it would move two key functions of the Department of Education—disability education oversight and the department’s Office for […]
How Disability Shaped American Citizenship
We tend to treat disability politics as a modern phenomenon, the product of disability civil rights movements in the latter part of the 20th century. […]
The White House Just Made Medicaid Work Requirements Even Worse
On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its interim final rule on Medicaid work requirements, mandating that everyone who seeks Medicaid support […]