In 1999 the Supreme Court held in Olmstead that needlessly confining a disabled person to an institution is discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. That ruling is the reason a disabled adult can live in an apartment with support instead of a facility, and the reason states had to fund home care rather than warehouse people because it was cheaper. The Justice Department is now narrowing how it will enforce that decision, which in practice means states can let home-care waiting lists grow and offer a bed in a nursing home as the only option left. A right nobody enforces is a suggestion. This is not a small population and it is not a fringe issue — most families arrive here through a parent, a spouse, or an injury. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to restore full federal enforcement of the Olmstead integration mandate and to write the right to community-based care into statute, where a policy memo cannot narrow it.
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In 1999 the Supreme Court held in Olmstead that needlessly confining a disabled person to an institution is discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. That ruling is the reason a disabled adult can live in an apartment with support instead of a facility, and the reason states had to fund home care rather than warehouse people because it was cheaper. The Justice Department is now narrowing how it will enforce that decision, which in practice means states can let home-care waiting lists grow and offer a bed in a nursing home as the only option left. A right nobody enforces is a suggestion. This is not a small population and it is not a fringe issue — most families arrive here through a parent, a spouse, or an injury. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to restore full federal enforcement of the Olmstead integration mandate and to write the right to community-based care into statute, where a policy memo cannot narrow it.
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