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Ahead of the ADA’s 35th anniversary tomorrow, I led @democrats.senate.gov in introducing a resolution to send a loud and clear message:
Disability rights are human rights.
As Republicans kick millions off Medicaid, we’ll never stop fighting to protect the disability community.
![Conclusion
An executive order can do a lot, but it does not absolve agencies of their obligations to follow the law. The defendants acted contrary to law and arbitrarily and capriciously in swiftly enacting and implementing sweeping and poorly thought-through directives that ordered the bulk removal of health care resources on which the government had induced substantial and ongoing reliance. Hence, the Court must vacate both directives and the actions taken pursuant to them that caused the plaintiffs' injuries—i.e., the substantial modification or removal of webpages and datasets on which the plaintiffs rely.
Despite the defendants' concern, this decision does not threaten the government's ability
to "choose[] what to say and what not to say." See Opp'n at 1 (quoting Shurtleff v. City of Boston,
596 U.S. 243, 251 (2022)). Far from it. The government is free to say what it wants, including
about "gender ideology." But in taking action, it must abide by the bounds of authority and the
procedures that Congress has prescribed, through the APA and otherwise. And the government
failed to do so here.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifouamwcao35i73hpjkpmyx6yhj4jvdy2ta5nx6bxudit5pzxkx2m)
