5th Amendment compensation can make possible political activity and campaigns to increase disability democracy access. Money talks.
Andrew Straw articles
Andrew Straw is a person with disabilities who practices disability law and engages in disability reform advocacy. See his website here. http://disability.andrewstraw.com/ Straw is 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, twice a veteran of Afghanistan, ran as a Democratic candidate for sheriff of Hamilton County in 2018. 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. Straw v. McDonough, 20-2090 (Fed. Cir. 1/15/2021); Straw v. United States, 16-17573 (11 th Cir. 5/22/2019). 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, 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 3 years, from June 2018 – May 2021, studying disability access in that country, but may return to the United States when circumstances permit. Straw is now a registered voter in Hawaii, which is the closest U.S. state to where he lives in the Philippines.
Accommodations For Candidates With Disabilities
Despite some progress, there are structural problems preventing disabled people from participating in the electoral process as a candidate.
From My Philippines Experience To My Run For US Congress
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.
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.
Time for a National Divorce Bureau in the United States
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.
The 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.
The Disability Party and Abortion
The Disability Party has a position on abortion that some people find problematic. It is important for everyone to understand why this political party would limit the reach of Roe v. Wade the landmark case on abortion.
On the 6th Anniversary of the Disability Party, Some Background
Disabled Americans are encouraged to vote, but that’s all. No barriers have been removed to ensure that disabled voters have disabled candidates to vote for. Some states pretend that no disabled persons have disability rights as a candidate.
Why I Submitted Just One Signature For Ballot Access in Indiana
I was a founder of Indiana College Democrats, served as a Democratic precinct chair in Bloomington, and was a Democratic state delegate. But I will never be a Democrat in Indiana again.
On Shutdowns, Walls and Immigration
Turn back to 1989. The world was celebrating walls tumbling down and President Bush Sr. used the metaphor of walls crumbling down in his speech before signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.