Judge: WH Briefings Must Have Sign Language Interpreters
5th November 2025
A federal judge ruled that the White House must restore real-time American Sign Language interpretation to all press briefings held by President Donald Trump or press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in Washington said the decision to end the interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from important updates on issues like the economy, public health, and matters of war.
“Given the nature of the programming at issue here — regularly scheduled briefings on critical topics implicating markets, medicine, militaries, and myriads of other issues — the court finds that denying deaf Americans access to and the benefit of it presents a clear, present, and imminent harm,” Ali wrote.
This is proglodyte bullshit. There are no deaf Americans present at these briefings, which are not open to the public, and deaf people must depend for their information on what the news media report.
What I would do if Trump, and what I hopes he considers doing, is not holding any public briefings at all. He is under no requirement to do so. Have the press secretary hold private briefings for members of the press corps, and tell the judge to go piss up a rope. Hell, start a YouTube channel.