Advocacy Updates

Today CPR submitted on its own behalf and on behalf of 33 other national and state disability advocacy organizations comments opposing the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed “public charge” rule.  This rule, if enacted, would allow DHS to deny entry to or remove anyone with a disability if they, their children, or their family members relied on any type of public resources for support.  CPR and the other 33 organizations stated that the proposed rule would discriminate based on disability and violated the Administrative Procedures Act.

CPR, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, American Civil Liberties Union, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Justice in Aging and the National Health Law Program join in solidarity with the transgender community to denounce discrimination against transgender people, including those with disabilities, and to condemn the anti-trans actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and this administration. 

On November 23, 2025, The U.S. District Court for the District of Maine rejected a joint effort by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State of Maine to weaken a settlement protecting the state’s youth behavioral-health system and the rights of children with disabilities. 

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The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Commission on Law and Aging dedicated its 2025 National Aging and Law Conference to “Fostering Stability in Aging”. 

On October 20, 2025, CPR submitted comments to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), urging it to reject the request to impose a proof citizenship requirement for people registering to vote.

Updates on Advocacy, Litigation, and Educational Initiatives

Updates on Litigation, Initiatives, and Staff

The Trump administration is attempting to eliminate important civil rights protections contained in federal regulations, and CPR is working to push back and delay these efforts by drafting, and joining allied groups’, comments in response to proposed regulatory changes.

CPR’s work nationally, and in Massachusetts, continues to focus on expanding the legal rights of people with disabilities to make choices in their own lives, including the right of persons subject to guardianship and conservatorship proceedings to choose, retain and, in appropriate circumstances, discharge their own counsel.