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# Disability Rights Watch

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- [Offices of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and Civil Rights Removed from Dept. of Ed](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/06/17/offices-of-special-education-and-rehabilitative-services-and-civil-rights-removed-from-dept-of-ed/) - Linda McMahon announced today further dismantling of the Dept. of Education, making good on the previously announced plan to move the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The move is part of an ongoing effort by the Trump administration to hollow out the Department
- [ICE and Disability Updates (8 March)](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/03/08/ice-and-disability-updates-8-march/) - Deaf six-year-old and family deported after legal immigration check-in. Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, and her sons (5 and 6) have been deported after Gutierrez attended her legal immigration check-in appointment. The family's lawyer was unable to locate them for several days, before confirming their deportation to Colombia. Gutierrez's 6-year-old is deaf and a student at California
- [February 2026 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/02/27/february-2026-updates/) - Border Patrol causes death of blind Rohingya refugee in Buffalo, NY. 56 year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam was detained on February 19th and released the same day. However, instead of being returned home, Alam was dropped on a corner five miles from his home with no phone or assistance. Alam was blind and did not
- [ICE and Disability (February)](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/02/03/ice-and-disability-february/) - Good news: Black Deaf Minnesota man Ike Muringai, who was taken by ICE last month, has been released from custody and is home with his fiancee. Anthony Paredes, a Latino and Chicano deaf high schooler, was violently arrested by DHS at a protest in Los Angeles last week. Paredes was tackled by multiple armed agents
- [ICE and Disability 2026](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/01/16/ice-and-disability-2026/) - Authoritarianism is a disability rights issue. Immigration is a disability rights issue. And , as we've seen throughout the escalations over the past year, disabled people are particularly vulnerable to abuse by extrajudicial secret police and unregulated detention camps. Some of the disability-related ICE stories from the past two weeks include: A father in the
- [Week 45-46 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/12/08/week-45-46-updates/) - HHS to remove recommendation for infant Hepatitis B vaccine, Trump asks RFK to fast-track a revamp of entire childhood vaccine schedule. The majority of Hepatitis B patients who go on to experience chronic liver disease or liver failure are infants. While vaccines should still be available for families that want them, these changes will cause
- [Weeks 43-44 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/11/22/weeks-43-44-updates/) - Trump and McMahon further dismantle Department of Education, moving programs to Department of Labor, Interior, and HHS. The relocated programs include Title 1, teacher training grants, English learner programs, TRIO, adult education, Native education, foreign language programs, foreign med-school accreditation, and student-parent grants. The move of programs along with DoEd's press release touting an increased
- [Weeks 40-42 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/11/06/weeks-40-42-updates/) - Government shutdown reaches record-breaking lengths as Trump Administration defies court order to fund SNAP. The shutdown passed the 35 day-mark this week, breaking the record previously also held by Trump. Trump recently doubled down on threats not to pay backpay, though they have found "workarounds" to continue to pay the military, ICE, and for White
- [Weeks 38 + 39](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/10/20/weeks-38-39/) - 1. On Friday, October 10, the Department of Education fired nearly the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including the subdepartments OSEP and RSA. Implications are uncertain. However, more information on the current function of OSERS: OSERS oversees the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) the law that gives disabled kids a right
- [Week 36 + 37 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/10/05/week-36-37-updates/) - RFK Jr. and Trump deliver multiple anti-scientific rants about Tylenol and vaccines in connection to autism. After promising to find the "cause" for autism by September, HHS's RFK Jr. delivered a series of unhinged press conferences about the dangers of Tylenol. He cited a small and since debunked study that found a slight correlation between
- [Weeks 34+35](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/09/20/weeks-3435/) - Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends calls for the mass murder of unhoused people. The discussion, about how to handle growing populations of unhoused people, especially those who are mentally ill, Kilmeade said we should "just kill them" using "involuntary lethal injection." Unhoused people often have a disability or mental illness, and Kilmeade spoke emphatically
- [Week 33 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/09/07/week-33-updates/) - Chaos hits pharmacies as CDC's delayed approval of covid vax causes confusion, barriers to access. Covid surged to the highest levels in the US since the 2021 Delta variant--in response, CDC stopped tracking the data. Meanwhile, vaccine rollout was stymied as many states have regulations requiring CDC approval for a vaccine before it can be
- [Week 32 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/08/31/week-32-updates/) - 1. RFK Jr's eugenic rampage continues to burn through the Department of Health and Human Services. RFK fired Susan Moneraz, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, throwing an already tumultuous climate at the institution in to chaos, and prompting several other high-level resignations at the institution. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, one of the scientists who
- [Week 31 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/08/25/week-31-updates/) - 1. Starting tonight, the National Guard in DC will be armed, as Trump plans a deployment in 19 more states. As other states' National Guard and federal DHS agents stage a hostile takeover of Washington DC, it's common to see five or more soldiers taking down just one person--now they will have guns. Nearly 1000
- [Week 30 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/08/17/week-30-update/) - 1. Trump Administration begins military takeover of DC, targeting unhoused. In conjunction with his executive order targeting unhoused people, and false claims of high crime rates, Trump deployed the National Guard in Washington DC and also attempted to order the Attorney General to take over the local police force. Initially the Guardspeople weren’t supposed to
- [Week 29 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/08/10/week-29-update/) - Executive Order: Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking. Trump signed an executive order this week that gives the executive branch approval control over research grants disbursed by the NHS, NIH, and other agencies.This will add an unnecessary extra layer of bureaucracy and censorship, in which scientists will have to defend their projects to people have no
- [Week 27 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/08/07/week-27-update/) - Executive Order: Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets. Trump signed an executive order this week telling cities to remove unhoused people from the streets as a way to “reduce crime”. While an EO is not a law, it makes it easier for city officials to remove unhoused people and to involuntarily commit them, because
- [Week 28 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/08/07/week-28-update/) - Department of Health and Human Services reclassifies Head Start. This week, HHS reclassified Head Start as a welfare program instead of an educational program. This reverses the legal precedent of Plyler v. Doe that all children in the US have a right to education.The reclassification allows HHS to restrict children’s access to Head Start programming
- [Week 26 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/07/20/week-26-update/) - SCOTUS rules on Dept of Ed. case, approving mass layoffs and paving the way for the dismantling of the department. SCOTUS ruled that DoEd’s mass layoffs (or RIFs)--attempted in March but temporarily stopped by a lower court--are allowed to move forward. This includes many positions that are required to be filled by law, ex: IDEA,
- [Week 25 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/07/12/week-25-updates/) - 1. FEMA ends door to door assistance, leaving elderly and disabled stranded. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been a target of the Trump administration, with DOGE cutting 20% of its employees and attempting to freeze funds, and Trump repeatedly pushing for disaster response to be a state-level problem.Experts say a diminished FEMA and
- [Week 24 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/07/05/week-24-updates/) - Congress passes harrowing budget ushering in police state. 17 Million Americans to lose healthcare. Approx 7.4 million to lose SNAP (food stamps).At least 51,000 additional Americans to die otherwise preventable deaths annually.Rural and pediatric hospitals, which rely heavily on Medicaid (and the latter also NIH funding) are in danger of closing.ACA and private insurance patients
- [Week 23 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/06/28/week-23-updates/) - SCOTUS Decision Day: ❌ Limited power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions, consolidating power under executive branch (limits ability to stop Trump EOs, etc.) Only SCOTUS or class-action suits remain as judicial checks.❌ Opened door to unconstitutional revoking of birthright citizenship. Removal of birthright citizenship in Germany is widely recognized by historians as the
- [Week 22 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/06/21/week-22-updates/) - 1. SCOTUS Upholds Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Minors. SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that states can ban trans minors from receiving gender-affirming care. Gender-affirming care can include psychological support, reversible puberty blockers, and hormone replacement therapy. In all but rare cases, surgery is not available to patients under 18. Less than 900 total surgeries on
- [Week 21 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/06/16/week-21-update/) - 1. Department of Energy leads new attack on Section 504 Over the past several weeks, the Department of Energy has been working to weaken Section 504, a statute that protects disabled people’s right to enter and be accommodated in any spaces that receive federal funding, including government buildings, public schools, hospitals that accept Medicaid, and
- [Week 20 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/06/08/week-20-updates/) - 1. WH loses appeal on Dept of Ed layoffs: A federal district court had previously barred the Department of Education from going through with the layoffs of about half its staff. Secretary of the department former WWE exec Linda McMahon testified before Congress that they had done no studies or analysis about how the layoffs
- [Week 19 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/05/31/week-19-updates/) - The Dept of Education's proposed 2026 budget released. The proposed DoEd budget was released this week, confirming a shift from IDEA formula grants (calculated by state need, with specific requirements to be used for special ed.) to block grant format. States would no longer be required to use the money for special ed.Proposed program cuts
- [Week 16 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/05/10/week-16-update/) - IDEA funding and enforcement threatened by block grants. In keeping with Project 2025, the White House’s budget requests called for a shift of how funding for special education is disbursed. Currently, DoEd provided formula grants calculated by a variety of data points and given to states with the requirement that they be used for special education.
- [Week 17 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/05/17/week-17-updates/) - Budget Reconciliation attempts back-door closure of DoED. The GOP proposes to dismantle key programs and change the way IDEA and other special education programming is funded, using “no strings attached” block grants to states, which will be suggested, but not required, for special education use. This is dangerous, as we are already seeing districts pull money from special institutions in light of budget cuts elsewhere.
- [Week 18 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/05/24/week-18-updates/) - House passes budget bill containing deep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, Dept. of Ed. 215 Republican Representatives voted for Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” advancing plans to cut Medicaid/care, SNAP, HUD and education funding in order to up DHS spending and extend tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy.
- [Week 15 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/05/03/week-15-update/) - 1. White House releases harrowing budget requests. On Friday, the White House released their budget request to Congress. The 46 pg document seeks massive cuts for almost all social and educational programs domestically and internationally, cuts totaling $163 billion.Departments of Defense and Homeland Security are two of the handful of that see increased spending in
- [Template for requesting doctors do not share medical information](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/05/19/template-for-requesting-doctors-do-not-share-medical-information/) - Hello! We aren't lawyers, just regular people sharing regular-person advice. This template was originally posted on the Legally Autistic FB page, and shared with us via E. Thunderwood on Instagram. Thanks to them for their hard work on this matter. It's unclear, given the breadth of the current administrations' defiance of laws, as well as
- [Week 14 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/04/26/week-14-update/) - HHS announces plan to build a registry of autistic people. This week, the HHS announced plans to use private health data, from medical records down to wearable smart tech, to create a government registry of autistic people. The announcement sparked privacy concerns and comparisons to the 1939 registry for disabled children as part of T4, a program for the mass murder of 300K+ disabled people across occupied Europe.
- [Week 13 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/04/19/week-13-updates/) - White House asks Congress to Eliminate Head Start Funding. The current budget draft eliminates funding for Head Start, which provides early education, meals, and health screenings for pre-k kids. The elimination of Head Start was a stated goal of Project 2025.
- [Week 12 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/04/12/week-12-update/) - House passes budget framework, paving the way for deep social cuts. The House passed the budget framework that paves the way for Trump’s desired budget, including trillions in tax cuts for rich people, increased defense spending, increased spending autonomy for the President, weakening social security, and an estimated $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid.
- [Week 11 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/04/05/week-11-update/) - More HHS layoffs gut public health and research. HHS fired an additional 10,000 workers this week, shuttering entire departments, ending grants and cutting spending by an additional third across the board. The closures will impact every American’s safety from infectious disease, foodborne illness, worker safety, HIV, STI and TB programs, maternal health, and vast amounts
- [Week 10 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/29/week-10-update/) - The Department of Health and Human Services laid off 10,000 employees. HHS underwent sweeping layoffs this week, with whole sub-agencies and departments shuttered and grants cut. This comes as the administration continues to say that special education oversight and services will be moved to HHS. Now the department not only has no educational expertise, but
- [NEW: Former Gallaudet Employee Speaks Out Against  "Deceitful, Fanciful Thinking" in University's Response to DoEd Layoffs](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/22/new-former-gallaudet-employee-speaks-out-against-deceitful-fanciful-thinking-in-universitys-response-to-doed-layoffs/) - The following post provides information specific to Gallaudet University, the world's only liberal arts university exclusively for D/HH students, in the wake of the Department of Ed's layoffs last week. For a general overview of that news, click here. For more information and action items specific to Gallaudet University, click here.For an ASL version of
- [Week 9 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/22/week-9-updates/) - Department of Justice rescinds key Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidance. On Wednesday night, the DOJ removed important guidance on accessibility in businesses, hotels, gas stations, regarding service animals, and more. The DOJ used an EO about the cost of living to justify the move, suggesting disabled people are the reason things are so expensive,
- [Breaking: Dept of Labor Dismantles PEAT, Key Digital Accessibility Resource](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/21/breaking-dept-of-labor-dismantles-peat-key-digital-accessibility-resource/) - Per internal sources providing info on condition of anonymity: The Department of Labor has removed PEAT, a major digital accessibility resource, previously housed at PEATWorks.org. PEAT was used by thousands in technology to make sure their designs were accessible for disabled people. It was also one of the few resources on accessible AI.PEAT has been
- [Breaking: Department of Justice Begins Rollback of ADA](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/20/breaking-department-of-justice-begins-rollback-of-ada/) - Yesterday the Department of Justice began removing guidance related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the law that protects disabled people's rights to access and accommodations in public. While the law itself remains on the books, the definition of legal "access" is developed by guidance from the US Access Board. The Board, comprised of
- [Action Item: Protect Deaf and Special Education!](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/19/action-item-protect-special-and-deaf-education/) - 1300 Department of Education employees were laid off last week, some of them illegally, including workers in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), who provide a variety of special education funding and programs, oversee IDEA, and fund and support special institutions like Gallaudet, NTID, the American Printing House for the Blind, Helen
- [Week 8 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/15/week-8-update/) - Hundreds of Illegal Layoffs at the Department of Education. DoED laid off over 1300 employees Tuesday night, nearly half the department. Secretary McMahon made a statement that layoffs would not affect special ed, nor any legally-mandated positions, but that was a lie.Layoffs were conducted without review via a generic, “Dear colleague" letter, including eliminating workers
- [Call Scripts for 13 March Regarding Budget Resolution and Illegal DoED Layoffs](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/13/call-scripts-for-13-march-regarding-budget-resolution-and-illegal-doed-layoffs/) - Script for Calling Your Senator (*Time Sensitive*--they must vote by Friday, 314)Find your Senator's phone number here Hello Senator [last name], My Name is [full name] and I'm a constituent calling from zip code [your zip code] to ask you to vote NO on the budget bill until there are firm guardrails in place that
- [New: Internal DoEd Document Show Full Reorganization After Tuesday's Illegal Layoffs](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/13/new-internal-doed-document-show-full-reorganization-after-tuesdays-illegal-layoffs/) - DoED reorg
- [Breaking: Nearly Half the Department of Education Laid  Off Tuesday, Including from Legally Mandated Positions](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/13/breaking-nearly-half-the-department-of-education-laid-off-tuesday-including-from-legally-mandated-positions/) - On Tuesday, 11 March, the Department of Education fired over 1,300 workers, nearly half of the department. Afterward, Linda McMahon told reports that legally-mandated employees, and programs protecting disabled students' rights were not affected; however, that was a lie. In the same interview, she also revealed she did not know what IDEA stands for. Federal
- [What's going on with the US Department of Education?](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/whats-going-on-with-the-us-department-of-education/) - Last Updated 3.10.2025In the news: President Trump has repeatedly promised to close the Department of Education, including at his September 2024 rally in Pennsylvania, and later on a Fox and Friends interview. He reiterated the plan when he nominated former WWE executive Linda McMahon to head the department. This plan can also be found in
- [What's the Deal with the Section 504 Lawsuit?](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/whats-the-deal-with-section-504/) - ID: ASL interpreted version of DREDF Texas vs. Beccera, courtesy DREDF.orgSection 504 is a civil rights statute that says any entity that gets money from the federal government (funding, grants, etc.) cannot discriminate on the basis of disability. It is part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 law. This protection impacts education, healthcare, immigration services,
- [Week 7 Updates](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/08/week-7-updates/) - Linda McMahon confirmed, prepares to gut DoED. The Senate confirmed Linda McMahon to her post as Secretary of the Department of Education. Almost immediately she sent out an email to all employees titled, "Our Department's Final Mission" detailing her desire to emphasize patriotism and vocational skills in American education, while simultaneously dismantling federal oversight. Trump
- [Breaking: Email from McMahon to Dept of Ed. Declares "One Final Mission"](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/04/breaking-email-from-mcmahon-to-dept-of-ed-declares-one-final-mission/) - From: McMahon, Linda Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 9:29 PM Subject: Our Department's Final Mission When I took the oath of office as Secretary of Education, I accepted responsibility for overseeing the U.S. Department of Education and those who work here. But more importantly, I took responsibility for supporting over 100 million American children and
- [Week Six Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/03/01/week-six-update/) - The full Senate voted along party lines to advance McMahon’s nomination. The final confirmation vote is Monday, 3/3. Trump has promised major cuts to the department via Executive Order once McMahon is in place, and three active bills to abolish the department are also currently in Congress. DoED funds and oversees a variety of disability-specific
- [Resources: Tracking Changes at the U.S. Department of Education and State Levels](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/26/resources-tracking-changes-at-the-u-s-department-of-education-and-state-levels/) - The US Department of Education is an essential source of funding and oversight for all US students, but particularly for those with disabilities. If you want more information about the functions of DoED and recent attacks, visit our explainer here. For a flyer with a QR code linking back to that information, go here. Or,
- [Week 2: What Happened?](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/09/week-2-what-happened/) - ID: A CDI signs the below information in ASL with slides in the background presenting that information in text. Some ASL interpreters and accommodations divisions were fired in Anti-DEIA sweeps. The White House Press Office interpreter is gone. Providers housed in DEIA divisions were laid off, despite the violation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
- [Week 5 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/22/week-5-update/) - Linda McMahon's DoED Nomination Advances The HELP Committee voted along party lines, advancing Linda McMahon to the full Senate for her confirmation as Secretary of DoED. Trump has promised major cuts to the department via Executive Order once McMahon is in place. Three active bills to abolish the department are also currently in Congress. DoED
- [Week 4 Update](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/15/week-4-update/) - Battles in the courts, Congress, and the labs this week, but the outcry against Texas v. Beccera shows the pressure still works, with some AGs backing away from the suit. Keep it up! PS--Trans rights are human rights. This lawsuit shows us they will try to pit us against one another with misinformation, and we're
- [Take it to the Streets! Flyers Download Page](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/take-it-to-the-streets-flyers-page/) - The news is changing so rapidly it can be hard to keep up. We're creating flyers that will target different issues, and link viewers to with explainers and action items. Click on a flyer below to download the PDF.
- [Week 1: What Happened?](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/09/week-1-what-happened/) - Things are happening quickly. We'll include a weekly round up of disability-related concerns, events, and polices on this site. Removal of the "Accessibility" page, and all ASL content from the White House Website The White House page indicates the administration's values (and potential targets). Accessibility is now a 404 error, concerning in the wake of
- [Week 3: What Happened?](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/10/week-3-what-happened/) - Some good news, some bad news this week, and an important reminder that putting pressure on elected officials still works. Three Current Bills in Congress Seek to Dismantle the Department of Education- HR 899 “To Terminate the Department of Education” Rep. Massey (KY)- HR 369 “To Provide for the Elimination of The Department of Education,

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- [Education of the Deaf Act](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/education-of-the-deaf-act/)
- [ADA](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/ada/)
- [deaf community](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/deaf-community/)
- [HHS](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/hhs/)
- [RFK Jr.](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/rfk-jr/)
- [autism](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/autism/)
- [deaf education](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/deaf-education/)
- [Texas vs. Kennedy](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/texas-vs-kennedy/)
- [antivax](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/antivax/)
- [trans rights](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/trans-rights/)
- [ICE](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/ice/)
- [gender-affirming care](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/gender-affirming-care/)
- [pediatric hospital](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/pediatric-hospital/)
- [AAP](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/aap/)
- [Department of Labor](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/department-of-labor/)
- [subminimum wage](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/subminimum-wage/)
- [ugly laws](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/ugly-laws/)
- [voting rights act](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/voting-rights-act/)
- [vaccine](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/vaccine/)
- [censorship](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/censorship/)
- [National Guard](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/national-guard/)
- [SCOTUS](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/scotus/)
- [Medicare](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/medicare/)
- [AI](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/ai/)
- [covid](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/covid/)
- [occupation](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/occupation/)
- [government shutdown](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/government-shutdown/)
- [Tylenol](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/tylenol/)
- [OCR](https://www.disability-rights-watch.com/tag/ocr/)