The push to reinstitutionalize disabled people, RFK’s autism registry, and the deportations all run on the same logic this country once handed the Nazis.
On June 18th Lanora Pettit, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, signed an opinion telling states they were free to ignore decades of Supreme Court precedent and start locking disabled people back into institutions instead of paying for the home and community care that allows them to live their lives with their families and friends. This memo is part of an effort to unwind the principle behind Olmstead, the 1999 Supreme Court ruling that found it is discrimination to force disabled people into institutions. This is not about budgets because locking a person in an institution is actually more expensive than just providing the services that they need to live at home.
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