Mike Ervin
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Darline Grahamâs Dilemma: Support Trump or People with Disabilities (opens the original)
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I canât get excited, as some disabled folks seem to be, about Darline Graham, Republican of South Carolina, joining the United States Senate. Two days after her older brother, Lindsey Graham, died unexpectedly on July 11, Darline was appointed by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster to finish Lindseyâs current Senate term, which ends in January. Shortly after that, she announced her intent to seek another term. On August 11, she finished first in a crowded field of GOP primary candidates,
Say it in Sign Language: Hell, No (opens the original)
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Once again, it seems that the squatter currently occupying the White House is appealing a decision in a lawsuitâand going for the jugular as he does so. The lawsuit at issue was filed by the National Association for the Deaf and two named plaintiffs in May 2025, when the White House abruptly stopped including American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters at press briefings following the squatterâs return to office. The suit argued that his administration needs to include sign language interpreta
Out of Sight and Out of Mind (opens the original)
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The administration of the squatter currently occupying the White House may have just stepped on a hornetsâ nest. Most disability rights activists consider the U.S. Supreme Courtâs 1999 decision in Olmstead v. L.C and E.W. to be one of the most important civil rights victories in the nationâs history. In this case, two disabled women who were being held against their will in a mental institution in Georgia filed a lawsuit asserting that this sort of involuntary institutionalization of disa
The ADA: The Boulder and the Hill (opens the original)
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) officially became federal law on July 26, 1990. So every year at about this time, I write something about how the law passed and if it has improved the lives of people with disabilities in the years since. I always end up saying that disabled folks have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. Nowadays, every public transit bus that passes by my home in Chicago is wheelchair accessible. Before the ADA became law, none of them were. But the
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