The Attorneys General in 17 states have sued in federal court to eliminate Section 504, which guarantees the rights of people with disabilities.
If you are a parent of a child with disabilities, you should become active to inform others and to contact your elected representatives.
Here are the states that are involved in this lawsuit:
Here is a fact sheet that should be helpful.
Section 504 assures that every institution that receives federal funds includes people with disabilities.
This is what the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education said about Section 504.
I should warn you, however, that the Office of Civil Rights may not exist anymore. It will probably be transferred to the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. The person nominated to lead that office is hostile to many of the civil rights protections that have been law for many years.
Here is a plain language explanation of the lawsuit, prepared by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
If the suit is successful, it would affect students and everyone else in every state, not just those where the suit was launched.
Wherever you live, join with other parents to protest. Contact all organizations that defend disability rights. Call your local officials.
Don’t let them get away with this attack on the disability rights of your child, which have been the law since 1973.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The avalanche of bad news continues. And, it’s getting to the point you read one of this crazy tRump stories and you have to wonder, can it be true?
BUT IT IS!
I saw this story linked on social media yesterday and I made a comment there. A former student…..a woman who was at the very top of my class even though she cannot see, posted the link.
‘At long last, have these Republicans no sense of decency?’
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It is sickening.
Where are the parents of students with disabilities in those states? They should protest loudly.
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504 regulations cover a number of “other health impaired” conditions including dyslexia, ADHD, vision or hearing problems, food allergies and mild mental problems like anxiety. School districts are required to develop a plan to accommodate a 504 student. Some students may be eligible for special seating, extra time on standardized tests or assistance from a para-professional depending on the nature of the impairment. The Darwinian GOP does not want to help anyone that does not fit their inflexible mold.
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If you’re not able-bodied, White and Christian, DROP DEAD. Is that the level to which we have sunk?
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They have HOLLOW 🥰 Hearts. But at least their Pockets Are Full. The Trump Administration is set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas vehicles. A new Cybertruck starts at around $82,000, and about 38,000 were sold last year, according to Cox Automotive. Since the vehicle’s launch in 2019, the truck has faced complaintsabout rust, finger pinches and defective accelerator pedals.
The State Department document also shows that some Tesla competitors are set to receive lucrative, yet considerably smaller, contracts for armored vehicles, including from BMW, which is expected to supply about $40 million worth of SUVs to the federal government.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administration-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas
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Apparently the case is Texas v. Becerra, but I’m very confused. There is a lot of information on this case, but nothing about any rationale (ridiculous as it is) on which the case is based. What legal claim are they trying to make? What possible legal reasoning would these states have for wanting to abolish Section 504?
I’m truly in shock that there’s an effort to actually abolish Section 504. This is crazy, stupid, and cruel. What the heck is wrong with people?
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I have no idea what is the basis of the legal challenge, but I believe their motive is an unwillingness to pay for the accommodations to which these students are entitled under the law.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act is likely to be next & the malignant narcissist is probably somehow behind it all.
Though not as obvious, it looks like he’s trying to do much of what Hitler did, such as by claiming that swaths of “useless eaters” were too costly & those people were unworthy, justifying euthanasia for the sick and disabled, including children. (Or starve them of resources and they’ll die off, as he inferred regarding his disabled nephew.) In the matter of expansionism that involves taking over foreign lands, it was justified by the need for lebensraum, security and the natural resources those lands had, so again, money was a major component and not much different from this guy’s claims for Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal, Gaza etc. –while selling off our country’s own public land to privatizers…
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Cutting off the expenses of government and federal programs most likely will be used as an excuse to reduce taxes again for the uber-rich, too, like himself and his billionaire buddies…
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Recall that Trump refused to help his nephew, who has a disability. He wondered why it was worthwhile to prolong his life. Recall too that he told generals not to include disabled vets in parades because it doesn’t look good.
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I have given up trying to tally all the lawsuits filed against Trump.
But this one is a humdinger.
Posted in the New York Times at 12:27 am:
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday night to unfreeze foreign aid spending President Trump halted during his first week in office, the latest of several legal roadblocks to Mr. Trump’s aggressive first-month agenda.
The ruling by Judge Amir H. Ali of the Federal District Court in Washington found that Mr. Trump’s executive order imposing a blanket freeze on U.S. foreign aid spending was based on dubious logic. He said it was also probably causing irreparable harm to aid groups, which face devastating financial shortfalls and, in some cases, shutdown.
In response, Judge Ali, a Biden appointee, issued a temporary injunction saying that the Trump administration could not freeze foreign aid spending that predates Mr. Trump’s inauguration, nor could it fire or suspend workers associated with those spending projects.
The ruling reverses a decision that had thrown into turmoil programs that provide shelter for millions of people and fight hunger and illness around the globe. Other court decisions have also blocked the administration from carrying out its plan to virtually dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, the main government organization that provides humanitarian aid, and put its employees on administrative leave.
In his 15-page ruling, Judge Ali said that the plaintiffs — a coalition of aid groups, businesses, and health and media nonprofits — had “made a strong preliminary showing of irreparable harm.”
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He’s all about how the optics reflect on him only, not how they matter to most other people.
Thank goodness the courts have been coming through for the rest of us so far.
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Even more of a problem is evidence that the AGs for some of these states are responding to concerned constituents with, essentially, “Of course that’s not what we’re doing – we’d never! Anyone telling you otherwise is lying! Those liberal groups from CA are trying to scare you! We just want to deal with the ‘gender dysphoria’ phrasing.” And yet, anyone can read the actual lawsuit and see they’re asking for the entire Section to be deemed unconstitutional. I’m not sure what’s worse anymore – the action or the blatant lying about the action.
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People in red states should be outraged.
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What are families that include relatives with disabilities supposed to do? Bankrupt themselves in suing to access services? Warehouse their relatives?
This is cruel.
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