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Andrew Straw articles

andrew strawAndrew Straw is a person with disabilities who practiced disability law and engages in disability reform advocacy.  http://disability.andrewstraw.com/  Straw was a Virginia lawyer and has served as corporate counsel for billionaire Alan M. Voorhees, who designed the Interstate Highway System and the Metro in Washington DC.  Straw then worked for the Chief Justice of Indiana and was the assistant dean in charge of the International Programs at Indiana University-Maurer School of Law.

He grew up in Indiana, where his brother, a retired USAF captain and twice a critical care trauma nurse veteran of Afghanistan, ran as a Democratic candidate for sheriff of Hamilton County in 2018.  Jason Straw is head of Indiana NORML and seeks reforms of the state’s marijuana laws like most other states have.  Andrew Straw was born at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, where his father was training as a U.S. Marine for his Vietnam duty.  Straw was thus poisoned on the first days of his life but was denied compensation and health care.  Straw v. Wilkie, 843 F. App’x 263 (Fed. Cir. 1/15/2021); Straw v. United States, 4 F.4th 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2021).  Straw started a group for people born or poisoned there called Children of Camp LeJeune.

Straw has visited 16 countries and has lived in the United States, Italy, New Zealand, Turkey, and the Philippines.  Straw provided services to the Italian Foreign Ministry as a contractor and passed the written U.S. Foreign Service Officer Test in 1998.  For more information, Straw’s CV can be found here.  Straw has lived in the Philippines for nearly 4 years, from June 2018 – March 2022, studying disability access in that country, but may one day return to the United States when the human rights violation stop.  He is an asylum seeker due to the discrimination and human rights violations of state and federal courts in the USA.  http://cpa.andrewstraw.com   Andrew Straw lives just 1374 km from where his father was stationed in Vietnam. See also: http://mitigation.andrewstraw.com

Goodbye Roe v. Wade, Goodbye Rule Of Law

by Andrew Straw - May 5, 2022

Congress should impeach judges who act like that because it is not good behavior, and they were asked not to act that way when they were confirmed.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Supreme Court

Congress Takes Responsibility For Camp Lejeune Poisoning Victims

by Andrew Straw - March 14, 2022

I was born at Camp LeJeune and had 19 months of exposure to the toxins at the base in utero and as an infant as my father trained for his Vietnam duties.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Cambodia, Vietnam

An Exiled American Attorney On Philippines’ President Duterte

by Andrew Straw - March 8, 2022

Before I moved here, Duterte launched a crackdown on crime. I don’t know what it was like before, but I’ve never been in a place with less crime.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Asia, Philippines

A Ukrainian Asylum Lawyer Crushed

by Andrew Straw - March 5, 2022

Russia poses a threat to Ukraine, when I was practicing law, I was challenged for filing asylum claims for Ukrainians in the Chicago area.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Journalism and Free Speech, Ukraine

Money Removes Some Disability Barriers in Elections

by Andrew Straw - June 14, 2021

Money Removes Some Disability Barriers in Elections

5th Amendment compensation can make possible political activity and campaigns to increase disability democracy access. Money talks.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Disability and Democracy, Money Politics, Voter Access

Accommodations For Candidates With Disabilities

by Andrew Straw - May 31, 2021

Accommodations For Candidates With Disabilities

Despite some progress, there are structural problems preventing disabled people from participating in the electoral process as a candidate.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Disability and Democracy, Minority Voting Rights, Voter Access

From My Philippines Experience To My Run For US Congress

by Andrew Straw - June 22, 2019

My Philippines Experience

For the past year, I have lived in the Philippines on the Southern coast of Luzon Island.  This article is to reflect on this travel as a lawyer, disabled person, and American citizen, and what I will do when I get home.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Absentee and Mail Voting, Asia, Disability and Democracy, Philippines

New Zealand: Clean and Green or Corrupt and Mean?

by Andrew Straw - April 2, 2019

New Zealand: Clean and Green or Corrupt and Mean?

Fighting a court is like trying to grab a snake covered in oil.  They have more power than you do, often are poisonous, and are unaccountable when they libel you and strip you of your rights.  It seems they bite you with dishonesty.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Asia, Disability and Democracy, Green Party News, New Zealand

Time for a National Divorce Bureau in the United States

by Andrew Straw - March 28, 2019

National Divorce Bureau

In the United States, the regulation of divorce and marriage have been left to the States, but the federal government has an interest in uniformity under the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution.

Filed Under: DC Authors

The Disability Party Proposes a Constitutional Amendment

by Andrew Straw - February 19, 2019

Disability Party Proposes a Constitutional Amendment

Disability Party believes the Constitution needs to be amended to reform some major problems with the federal courts and federal judges. These problems are being used to block disability rights.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Disability and Democracy, Founding Fathers, Voter Access

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A Dangerous Reprise Of American Exceptionalism In Ukraine

By Jamie Lampidis May 15, 2022

The stakes are too high to cave into Putin’s phantasmatic imperial play, and too high to believe that this war can be won by arming Ukrainians.

On The Coming End Of Roe v. Wade

By Peter J. Dellolio May 11, 2022

Anyone who says that the evolution of law has nothing to do with politics is either very corrupt or very stupid. Laws evolved through the centuries.

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