According to NPR News, a Justice Department memo is challenging civil rights protections that have long shielded disabled Americans from unnecessary institutionalization. The opinion threatens decades of legal precedent treating institutionalization as a last resort. Disability rights advocates say the move could reverse hard-won protections and return disabled people to institutions, raising alarms about a potential reversal of community-based care policies.

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