White House Ordered to Provide Sign Language Interpreters for Press Briefings

White House Ordered to Provide Sign Language Interpreters for Press Briefings

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions from reporters during a press briefing at the White House on Oct. 23, 2025. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

A federal judge ruled on Nov. 5 that the White House must provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation during press briefings held by President Donald Trump and press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

The decision followed a lawsuit filed in May by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and Derrick Ford, a deaf individual, which alleged that the Trump administration “inexplicably stopped” using ASL interpreters since taking office, denying deaf Americans access to real-time White House communications.
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