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Ezell Ford is still dead. The family has been given some money. The officers remain undisciplined and certainly won’t be charged. This is the pattern. Disabled people – especially but not exclusively black men, especially but not exclusively people in mental health crisis – get killed by cops. No one is held responsible. But sometimes …
The other day I suggested that a person being shot at a Milo protest in Washington deserved at least as much coverage as, say, Oberlin students arguing about sandwiches … or even the property damage and action at Berkeley. Because someone was shot. Now The Chronicle of Higher Education has (paywalled, but this link might work) …
UPDATE: A spokesperson for the Department of Education sent me this (I updated the title as well) We were made aware of the problem with the site early this morning and we are actively working to resolve. There have been server issues relating to this site going back to at least Jan. 27. We’re actively …
A good piece on media links between mental illness and violence: Mostly done pretty badly. It’s from last June, but I post this in light of liberals making lots of “mentally ill with guns” comments in the last few days. Here’s a great quote: Dr. Joshua D. Lee, an associate professor in medicine and psychiatry …
I blogged the other day about the Hwang v KSU disability rights case. Here’s an actual disability rights lawyer, Claudia Center, for the ACLU on the case and others. Under established disability rights laws, a request for leave due to a disability must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis to decide whether the request would …
This is from a leaked executive order, published here. The Arc has an excellent statement on the disability implications. Text reads: “To propose for notice and comment a rule that provides standards for determining which aliens are inadmissible or deportable on public-charge grounds, and that specifies that an alien is inadmissible as a public charge if …
#Gorsuch did not author the decision here, but it’s pro-forced-seclusion to force compliance. #CultOfCompliancehttps://t.co/DStysUaTS1 pic.twitter.com/dtmaUb4RFR — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) February 1, 2017 This decision was NOT written by Gorsuch, but he did concur. It was written by Michael McConnell, a Bush (W.) appointee and an interesting guy. When it comes to disability cases that …
I plan to blog some of the cases that new SCOTUS nominee Gorsuch has ruled on or concurred in regards to disability. The record is mixed. He has the typical conservative skepticism about federal regulation, disdain for class actions, and protection of corporate over individual interests. Beyond that, we’ll need to look at specifics. Note: …