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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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