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Andrew Straw is a person with disabilities who practiced disability law and engages in disability reform advocacy.    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.  Jason is known as “Captain Cannabis.”

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.  Congress voted to compensate people like Straw and his dead mother from the poisoning (S. 3373, Title VIII, Sec. 804).  This new law has passed the U.S. House by 342-88 and the U.S. Senate by 86-11.  It will likely be signed by President Biden in early August now that it has passed both houses.

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 over 4 years, from June 2018 – August 2022, studying disability access in that country, but may one day return to the United States when the human rights violations stop.

He is an asylum seeker due to the discrimination and human rights violations of state and federal courts in the USA.  Andrew Straw lives just 1374 km from where his father was stationed in Vietnam. See also. Straw is engaging in pro se law reform from a distance.

Courts, Constitutions, & Democracy: A Failing System

April 29, 2023 by Andrew Straw 2 Comments

Equal protection on its face means that everyone is treated equally but the U.S. Supreme Court has limited equal protection.

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Democracy, Human Rights, And Rotten Meat

April 3, 2023 by Andrew Straw Leave a Comment

The Hippies were right, just like the peace churches have said. War is good for nothing. Many Hippies became vegetarians. They were right too.

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Indiana Voters Can Remove 60% Of The Supreme Court

March 30, 2023 by Andrew Straw Leave a Comment

The 2024 Indiana election could remove 60% of the state’s justices, including Rush who’s violated property and human rights.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Judicial Elections

Courts Off The Deep End, Again

February 1, 2023 by Andrew Straw 4 Comments

Courts off the deep end, again

Closing the courts, shutting down dissent, and violating the rights of whistleblowers. These are not the actions of an open, free society.

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Property Rights, Indiana-Style

December 24, 2022 by Andrew Straw Leave a Comment

Property Rights, Indiana-Style

Indiana’s justices have replaced constitutional property rights with ad hominem politics. Replacing them starts with better governors.

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Indiana’s Irrational Ballot Access System

December 4, 2022 by Andrew Straw Leave a Comment

Indiana's Irrational Ballot Access System

Opposing the potential 2024 retention of the Chief Justice Loretta Rush will be key to preventing disability discrimination bad blood in Indiana courts.

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Disability Employment Awareness Month

October 27, 2022 by Andrew Straw Leave a Comment

As the month of October comes to a close, it is worth considering how Disability Employment Awareness Month applies to the State of Indiana.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Disability and Democracy

Ballot Access Candidates: A National Mandate

October 15, 2022 by Andrew Straw Leave a Comment

Another election is about to come and go, but the results for smaller parties depend on the results in certain races.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Disability and Democracy, Third Party, Voter Access

On Gerrymandering And Judicial Democracy

October 12, 2022 by Andrew Straw 1 Comment

Voter ID, Partisan Gerrymandering Struck Down In NC Rulings 

I am against gerrymandering and want to see every instance of it abolished so Americans have more equality and power when they vote.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Direct Democracy and Referendums, Judicial Elections, Redistricting, Supreme Court

Courts: Enemies of Democracy and Equality?

September 22, 2022 by Andrew Straw Leave a Comment

Courts: Enemies of Democracy and Equality?

It has never been the lawyers causing all the trouble. Instead, it is courts that promise the world and [yet] yield so little justice.

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May 19, 2023 By Joe Mathews

“Nightcrawling” by Leila Mottley is a bestselling novel that explores the hardships of life in Oakland’s struggling streets.

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Courts, Constitutions, & Democracy: A Failing System

April 29, 2023 By Andrew Straw

Equal protection on its face means that everyone is treated equally but the U.S. Supreme Court has limited equal protection.

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