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Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears

Trump's judges are taking a sledgehammer to our rights and freedoms. Use this tool to see the total impact.

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Denigrating trans people

Evans v. Garcia

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Decertifying class action

Heagney v JPMS

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Letting police point gun at person's head

Medrano v Acosta

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We can't let this be the new normal.

Confirmed Judges Confirmed Fears tracks the damaging impacts of Trump-appointed judges around the country, and chronicles the decisions that hurt all of us.

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Denigrating trans people

Evans v. Garcia

An opponent of transgender equality claims a First Amendment right to post photos of a trans woman in a public bathroom as protected political speech.

 
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Decertifying class action

Heagney v JPMS

Several California consumers challenged misrepresentations about use of animal testing by a company selling hair care products.

 
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Letting police point guns at person's head

Medrano v Acosta

A person challenged police for using excessive force in arresting him by pointing their guns directly at his head from point-blank range despite his lack of resistance or other imminent threat.

 
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Dismissing prisoner's claim

Mason v Talley

A state prisoner claimed he was injured by prison officials who shackled him for extensive periods.

 
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Weakening ADA accessibility rule

Canter v HSD II

A disabled woman challenged lack of accessibility under the ADA at a public hair salon.

 
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Denying relief to passenger injured by airline

Bandary v Delta Air Lines

A passenger claimed he was injured by actions of airline employees.

 
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Denying injunction preventing harm to union

Hamada v Laborforce

The National Labor Relations Board sought to prevent the decertification of a union.

 
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Upholding Pentagon blacklisting Anthropic

Anthropic v Department of War

Anthropic tried to invalidate the blacklisting of Anthropic and its AI tool Claude from use by the Department or its contractors because of restrictions Anthropic placed on the tool.

 
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Limiting free speech demonstrations

Mahoney v US Capitol Police Board

A minister challenged federal regulations that ban public demonstrations on the Eastern Steps of the U.S. Capitol unless sponsored by a member of Congress.

 
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Reinstating requirement that new voters much prove citizenship

Red, Wine and Blue v Larose

Advocates challenged a 2025 provision of Ohio law requiring new voters registering at the bureau of motor vehicles to submit proof of citizenship.

 
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Allowing administration to use flawed database to purge voters

Department of Homeland Security v League of Women Voters

Voting rights groups challenged a Trump program to use a federal database to help with voter purges.

 
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Reviving Republican election map despite court ruling

Onder v Missouri

A Republican member of Congress sued to force Missouri to use an electoral map referred to as “HB 1” that would diminish the influence of Black voters for the upcoming elections, despite a state supreme court decision to the contrary.

 
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Deriding and harming trans women prisoners

S.D. v Reese

A number of trans women challenged an Oregon state practice that called for trans women to be housed in state prison facilities for men.

 
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Dismissing lawsuit over lead in drinking water

Sterling v. City of Jackson

Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, sued the government for knowingly providing city water with dangerous levels of lead and then misleading residents about the dangers.

 
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Making it harder for pre-trial detainees to hold prisons responsible for injuries

Poynter v Shirley

A man civilly confined to a state prison pre-trial filed suit to recover damages for serious harm caused to him by inmates who the prison failed to control.

 
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Affirming dismissal of police excessive force claim

Cendan v Trujillo

A man arrested for armed robbery sued police officers for excessive use of force.

 
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Affirming rejection of social security disability application

Calhoun v Commissioner of Social Security

A woman suffering from both physical and mental impairments challenged an agency decision to reject her application for disability benefits.

 
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Allowing White House ballroom construction

National Park Service v National Trust for Historic Preservation

The Trump DOJ sought Supreme Court permission to continue construction of its White House ballroom despite a lower court injunction stopping it.

 
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Denying asylum to woman

Santa Jeronimo deRamos v Blanche

A woman from Guatemala along with her daughter sought asylum in the US.

 
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Letting DOJ prosecute member of Congress

US v McIver

The Trump administration is prosecuting a Democratic member of Congress for her oversight visit to a federal immigration detention center.

 
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Rejecting whistleblower's retaliation claim

Mehrotra v Department of Labor

A fired company employee claimed his company improperly retaliated against him for whistleblowing.

 
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Imprisoning ICE protesters

USA v Wagner

The Trump Administration challenged the release of a protester against ICE who had been arrested for his activities.

 
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Denying asylum to LGBTQ man

Zhuravlev v. Blanche

Evgenii Zhuravlev sought asylum in the U.S. from anti-LGBTQ persecution in Russia.

 
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Letting Trump proceed with election interference

Trump v California

The Trump administration is setting up an unlawful scheme to interfere with how states run elections, posing a threat to the integrity of this fall’s midterm elections.

 
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Granting qualified immunity to officer who harmed Black man

Savory v Andrews

Police officers sought qualified immunity for harm caused to black man for imprisonment for more than 30 years

 
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