Judge Issues Injunction Impacting White House Press Briefings
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Shortly after Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, his administration stopped having American Sign Language interpreters translate at White House press briefings for the deaf and hard of hearing communities.
A federal judge has ruled that this violated federal law, and ordered the White House to reinstate sign language interpreters so the deaf and hard of hearing communities would have access to the information being put out by the federal government during White House press briefings.
Glenn discusses this new federal court ruling designed to prevent the White House from keeping the deaf community in the dark about what the federal government is up to.
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| 0:11.4 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and legal analyst, Glenn Kirshman. Shortly after Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, he decided to stop |
| 0:31.1 | having American Sign Language interpreters at his White House press briefings. Now a judge says |
| 0:36.4 | that's illegal. |
| 0:40.5 | Glenn discusses this next on Justice Matters. |
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| 1:30.3 | Hey all, Glenn Kirshner here. So friends, this particular story, this legal development hasn't gotten much attention. |
| 1:38.3 | It doesn't involve Trump vindictively prosecuting his perceived enemies. It doesn't involve Trump ordering the murder |
| 1:48.5 | of human beings in international waters. It doesn't even involve Trump's unlawful withholding of |
| 1:57.0 | SNAP, food assistance benefits to make children go hungry. |
| 2:03.6 | No, this story involves Trump's gratuitous cruelty toward folks who are hard of hearing or deaf. |
| 2:13.6 | Folks who need a sign language interpreter to help them know what their government is up to. |
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