Trump thinks he can delete ADA
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 8:04 pm
The Guardian is reporting, "Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses"
The Department of Justice removed 11 guidelines for US businesses on compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including some that deal with Covid-19 and masking and accessibility.
The ADA was signed into law in 1990 and is the key civil rights law that protects Americans with disabilities from discrimination.
Updates have already been made to the ADA.gov website to reflect the removal of the guidances. Multiple pages were removed from the ADA’s archive website, including one page that explained how retail businesses are required to have accessible features and another on customer service practices for hotel and lodging guests with disabilities.
DOJ deleted this:
And DOJ removed this:
And two things are both true at the same time:
(1) the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice was a very important enforcer of federal disability civil rights law, including the ADA; and
(2) DOJ deleting ADA compliance resources, even abandoning ADA enforcement, does not change the underlying law. The Americans with Disabilities Act is still the law of the land. Fewer people will enjoy its protections, but it is still enforceable by the courts.
25% of Americans live with a disability.
Trump cannot delete the ADA, and he cannot delete disabled Americans. We are not going back to asylums and sanitariums.
The Department of Justice removed 11 guidelines for US businesses on compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including some that deal with Covid-19 and masking and accessibility.
The ADA was signed into law in 1990 and is the key civil rights law that protects Americans with disabilities from discrimination.
Updates have already been made to the ADA.gov website to reflect the removal of the guidances. Multiple pages were removed from the ADA’s archive website, including one page that explained how retail businesses are required to have accessible features and another on customer service practices for hotel and lodging guests with disabilities.
DOJ deleted this:
And DOJ removed this:
And two things are both true at the same time:
(1) the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice was a very important enforcer of federal disability civil rights law, including the ADA; and
(2) DOJ deleting ADA compliance resources, even abandoning ADA enforcement, does not change the underlying law. The Americans with Disabilities Act is still the law of the land. Fewer people will enjoy its protections, but it is still enforceable by the courts.
25% of Americans live with a disability.
Trump cannot delete the ADA, and he cannot delete disabled Americans. We are not going back to asylums and sanitariums.