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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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Stopping Musk deposition

In re Elon Musk

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Preventing findings on abusive immigration actions

Chicago Headline Club v Noem

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Reversing gun possession conviction
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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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Gutted consumer protections

CFPB v. Seila Law LLC

Trump judges Bumatay and Van Dyke try in dissent to further harm consumers by extending restrictive Supreme Court decision in CFPB case and invalidating CFPB investigative demand.

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

Bristol Regional Women's Center v. Slatery

Trump Sixth Circuit judges cast deciding votes to take "extraordinarily disfavored" step of having full court initially consider appeal of ruling striking down restrictive Tennessee abortion law.

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

Pre-Term Cleveland v. McCloud

Trump judges Bush, Thapar, Larsen, Nalbandian, and Readler cast deciding votes to reverse preliminary injunction against and effective uphold restrictive Ohio abortion law.

 
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Unconstitutionally obtained confession

United States v. Torres

Trump judge Bress casts deciding vote to excuse police misconduct of interrogating someone without Miranda warnings after punching and handcuffing him.

 
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Drone records

EPIC v. DAC

Trump judge Katsas writes opinion allowing agency advisory committee to keep secret records that could shed important light on privacy threats posed by drone use.

 
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Racial discrimination claim

Strickland v. City of Detroit

Trump judge Nalbandian tries in dissent to affirm decision dismissing Black police officer's claim that he was improperly retaliated against for complaining about misconduct against him.

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

Bristol Regional Women's Center v. Slatery

Some or all of Trump Sixth Circuit judges Thapar, Bush, Larsen, Nalbandian, Readler and Murphy cast deciding votes to vacate panel opinion and stay pending appeal of a decision striking down a restrictive Tennessee abortion law.

 
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Indian child welfare act

Brackeen v. Haaland

Trump judges Duncan, Willett, Engelhardt, and Oldham cast deciding votes to invalidate important parts of the Indian Child Welfare Act and try to do even more damage to the important law.

 
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Review of FEC rules

CREW v. FEC

Trump judges Rao and Katsas rule that FEC can prevent any court review of any decision not to enforce campaign finance or other federal election laws.

 
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Dissent would give police immunity

Tobias v. Arteaga

Trump judge Collins argues in dissent that police detectives should get qualified immunity from a lawsuit seeking to hold them accountable for forcing a false confession from a 13 year-old.

 
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Punished person who filmed police

Crocker v. Beatty

Trump judge Newsom upholds qualified immunity to prevent claim against police officer charged with improperly seizing cellphone being used to record police conduct and punishing the person doing the recording.

 
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Indian treaty rights

United States v. State of Washington

Trump judges Collins, Bennett, and Bress try in dissent to support Trump Administration effort to strike down state law that provided important help to former workers at a closed. federal nuclear facility

 
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COVID-era restrictions

Tandon v. Newsom

Trump Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett again cast deciding votes to grant dangerous special exemptions for religious purposes to important COVID-19 pandemic-related health measures.
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COVID risks for prisoners

Hill v. Whitmer

Trump judge Thapar casts deciding vote to affirm dismissal of prisoner's complaint that officials are being deliberately indifferent to the serious risk to him posed by COVID-19.

 
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Ruled against gun violence measure

State of Washington v. US Dept of State

Trump judge Nelson overturns injunction restricting harmful 3-D gun blueprints.

 
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Allowed unfairly long sentence

Jones v. Mississippi

Trump justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett cast deciding votes to gut contrary precedent and approve sentencing of 15 year-old to life imprisonment without the possibility for parole.

 
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Weakened the ADA

Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores Inc

Trump judge Branch writes opinion reversing district court and ruling that grocery store chain can legally discriminate against visually impaired people under the ADA by providing them with inferior services due to the inaccessibility of its website.

 
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Weakens implementation of the ACA

State of Texas v. Rettig

Trump judges Ho and Duncan try in dissent to revive dangerous nondelegation doctrine and invalidate important ACA implementation rule

 
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Limit interstate class actions

Lyngaas v. Curaden AG

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Thapar tried in dissent to severely limit federal class actions helping consumers get redress for corporate misconduct.

 
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Transgender rights

Meriwether v. Hartop

Thapar and Larsen rule that public university professors have a free speech right to refuse to use transgender students' requested pronouns and honorifics

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Pereida v. Wilkinson

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh cast deciding votes to make it harder for long-time US residents who are undocumented immigrants to stop deportation.

 
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Allow unreasonable police stop

US v. Norbert

Trump judge Oldham tries in dissent to uphold police stop and seizure of black man with no reasonable suspicion based solely on anonymous tip.

 
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Ruled against gun violence measure

Gun Owners of America v. Garland

Trump judge Murphy casts deciding vote to reverse lower court and decide that ATF rule banning dangerous bump stocks is illegal.

 
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Would rule against gun violence measure

Aposhian v. Wilkinson

Trump judges Eid and Carson tried in dissent to argue that the full 10th Circuit should rule illegal the ATF rule banning dangerous bump stocks.

 
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Ruled against police violence victim

Torres v. Madrid

Gorsuch's dissent said that a wrongful police shooting wasn't an unconstitutional "seizure" because the victim survived and got away.

 
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