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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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Rejecting immigrant's attempt to cancel deportation

Rios-Rocha v Bondi

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Throwing out remedy against Starbucks for unfair practices

NLRB v Starbucks

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Granting qualified immunity

Harris v Kim

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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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Dissent would strike down climate change plan

American Lung Assn v. EPA

Trump judge Walker tries in dissent to uphold Trump EPA action in repealing Clean Power rule, illustrating the threat posed by Trump judges to future action concerning climate change.

 
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Trying to overturn mines safety rule

National Mining Ass'n v. United Steel Workers

Trump judge Lagoa tries in dissent to invalidate Obama-era rule making important improvements to miner safety.

 
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Harmed immigrant children

PJES v. Pekoske

Trump DC Circuit judges Katsas, Rao and Walker issue a stay after the inauguration that blocks a district court order that enjoined a draconian Trump rule that called for summarily expelling unaccompanied minors seeking to enter the US at the border without even considering asylum and other claims.

 
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Employment contract dispute

Larweth v. Magellan Health Inc

Trump Eleventh Circuit judges Luck and Brasher affirm lower court order that grated preliminary injunction against fired employee of pharmaceutical company from working in his area of specialization in that industry.

 
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Blocked drug treatment facility

United States v. Safehouse

Trump judge Bibas rules that innovative drug treatment facility would violate federal criminal law and effectively blocks it from opening.

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

FDA v. American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists

Trump justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett cast deciding votes to reinstate FDA requirement that women must request abortion drugs in person, despite the burden this imposes during the pandemic.

 
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Cruelty in executions

Roane v. Rosen

Trump DC Circuit judges Katsas and Walker reverse stays of execution due to severe problems caused by COVID-19 of last two people executed by Trump Administration.

 
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Police brutality

Moser v. Las Vegas Metro Police Dept

Trump judge Lee reverses ruling against police officer who was removed from SWAT team for what was reasonable construes as advocacy of the use of unnecessary force

 
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Rejected sex harassment claim

Foster v. Board of Regents

Trump Sixth Circuit judges Thapar, Bush, Larsen, and Nalbandian cast deciding votes to uphold dismissal without trial of a graduate student's sexual harassment complaint.

 
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Upheld unfair sentence

US v. Collazo

Trump Ninth Circuit judges Miller, Bade and Bress cast deciding votes to make it easier to convict people of aggravated drug crimes carrying harsher penalties.

 
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Immigration and the census

Trump v. New York

Trump justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett cast deciding votes to vacate lower court decision invalidating Trump census plan to exclude undocumented immigrants in redistricting.

 
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Excessive force by police

Stoner v. Does

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Van Dyke cast a deciding vote to reverse a finding by a judge and jury that a police deputy used excessive force.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

City and County of San Francisco v. United States CIS

Trump judge Van Dyke tries to reverse injunctions against harmful Trump administration "public charge" immigration rule.

 
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Prison guard granted immunity for sex crimes

Tangreti v. Bachmann

Trump Second Circuit judge Menashi writes opinion reversing district court and granting qualified immunity to supervisory law enforcement official in case concerning sexual assaults by prison guards plus limiting supervisor liability in such cases.

 
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Allowed food assistance denial during COVID

Hall v. USDA

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge casts the deciding vote to deny families who already make the maximum allotment of food assistance benefits to obtain any additional allotments under the Trump Administration's interpretation and implementation of a new statute passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 
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Dissent would harm immigrant

Medina Tovar v. Zuchowski

Trump judges Bress and Bennett try in dissent to deny immigration relief to a victim of child rape and uphold a restrictive agency rule, disagreeing with the majority of judges including Trump judges Collins and Bumatay.

 
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Siding with company in overtime claims

Hewitt v. Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Ho writes opinion granting overtime pay to oil company supervisor who already made more than $200,000 per year.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections

Trump judges refuse to review an anti-transgender panel ruling even though it violated the court's own precedent.

 
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Upheld unfair death sentence

Bernard v. United States

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett cast deciding votes to deny stays and authorize immediate execution of Black man who never got to present claims that his death sentence relied on evidence that prosecutors knew was false and another Black man who, evidence showed, was intellectually disabled and not eligible for execution under federal law.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Doe v. Trump

The ACA specifically allows immigrants to use state health insurance exchanges, but Trump judge Daniel Collins upholds a Trump proclamation that denies entry to immigrants who plan to use such an exchange.

 
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COVID-era restrictions on churches

High Plains Harvest Church v. Polis

Trump justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett cast deciding votes to vacate lower court order upholding state limits on size of religious gatherings during pandemic, even though state had already lifted the restrictions.

 
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Upholding reduction of seaman's damages claim

Knight v. Kirby Offshore Marine Pac LLC

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Ho casts deciding vote to disregard past precedent and hold that damages to workers under the Jones Act sustained by following negligent company orders can be substantially reduced due to contributory negligence.

 
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Prevent wrongful death lawsuit

Sharp v. St Jude Medical Inc

Trump judge Newsom argues in dissent that court should uphold dismissal of woman's claim that manufacturing defects in a crucial medical device caused her husband's death.

 
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Limited data on gun safety

Everytown for Gun Safety v. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms

Trump Second Circuit judge Menashi writes opinion that conceals government data on gun violence and safety that was requested under FOIA

 
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Upheld unfair death sentence

Bourgeois v. Watson

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett cast deciding votes to deny stays and authorize immediate execution of Black man who never got to present claims that his death sentence relied on evidence that prosecutors knew was false and another Black man who, evidence showed, was intellectually disabled and not eligible for execution under federal law.

 
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