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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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Cruelty in executions

Nance v. Commissioner

Trump Eleventh Circuit judge Lagoa casts deciding vote to make it harder to challenge execution methods and to deprive one death row prisoner of the opportunity to do so.

 
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COVID-era restrictions on schools

Danville Christian Academy v. Beshear

Trump Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch tries to stop state order that temporarily closed religious as well as public schools due to the pandemic.

 
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False arrest lawsuit

Mohamud v. Weyker

Trump Eighth Circuit judges Stras and Erickson reverse district court and rule that police officer cannot be held liable for lying and causing false arrests of two women who were kept in custody for more than two years.

 
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Tried to gut COVID protections

Calvary Chapel v. Sisolak

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Bennett votes in majority ruling to effectively reverse Supreme Court prior ruling and enjoin pandemic-related restrictions on Nevada church.

 
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Challenges to racial disparities in education

Williams v. Reeves

Trump Fifth Circuit judges Willett, Ho, Duncan, Oldham, and Wilson try in dissent to dismiss claim concerning significant educational disparities affecting Mississippi African American schoolchildren.

 
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Limit disclosure of government records

Center for Investigative Reporting v. US DOJ

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Bumatay tries in dissent to conceal government data on gun violence that was requested under FOIA.

 
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Weakened COVID safety measures

Monclova Christian Academy v. Toledo-Lucas Cnty Health Dept

Trump Sixth Circuit judges Bush and Nalbandian grant a special exemption to religious schools from a county's temporary pandemic-related order closing all schools in grades 7-12.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Martinez v. LaRose

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Thapar, along with Trump judges Larsen, Bush, Murphy, and Nalbandian, refuses to reconsider decision allowing continued detention of immigrant who has been imprisoned for almost three years

 
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Upheld Medicaid restrictions

Planned Parenthood v. Kauffman

Trump Fifth Circuit judges Willett, Ho, Duncan and Engelhardt cast key votes to authorize states to prevent Medicaid patients from choosing their own health care and to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

 
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Cruelty in executions

Roane v. Barr

Trump judge Rao tried in dissent to dismiss challenge to Trump-Barr execution protocol as violating federal drug law.

 
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Weakened COVID safety measures

Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett cast deciding votes to exempt churches and other religious institutions from COVID-19 health restrictions and forbid New York from reimposing such requirements in New York City.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Common Cause v. Trump

Trump DC Circuit judge Katsas writes decision dismissing as premature a challenge to Trump order that undocumented immigrants be excluded from 2020 census counts related to apportionment

 
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Allowed execution

Barr v. Hall

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett cast deciding votes to lift a stay and carry out a federal execution of a Black man who has claimed his conviction was tainted by racial discrimination and was the first federal prisoner executed during a lame-duck period since 1889.

 
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Conversion therapy

Otto v. City of Boca Raton

Trump 11th Circuit judges Grant and Lagoa strike down laws protecting LGBTQ youth from dangerous "conversion therapy."

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

Memphis Ctr for Reproductive Health v. Slatery

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Thapar casts deciding vote to reverse a district court and authorize a restrictive Tennessee abortion law to immediately go into effect.

 
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Would rule against gun violence measure

Folajtar v. Attorney General

Trump Third Circuit judge Bibas tries in dissent to partly overturn federal law banning firearms possession by people convicted of felonies.

 
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Racial discrimination

Robinson v. VSI Construction Inc

Trump Eighth Circuit judge Erickson casts deciding vote to affirm the dismissal of an African American man's complaint that he was fired for complaining about racial and disability bias

 
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Restricted absentee ballots

Democratic Natl Comm v. Wisconsin State Legislature

Trump justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh cast deciding votes to block an order authorizing the counting of Wisconsin absentee ballots received after Election Day.

 
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Restricted absentee voting

Organization for Black Struggle v. Ashcroft

Trump Eighth Circuit judge Grasz cast the deciding vote to block district court injunction and make it more likely that mail-in voters' ballots will not be counted, harming those voters.

 
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Limited absentee ballots

Andino v. Middleton

Trump Justice Neil Gorsuch tries to disqualify absentee ballots already cast in South Carolina, and Court grants stay of district court order concerning witness requirement as urged by Trump judges Rushing and Quattlebaum.

 
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Limited absentee ballots

Republican Party of Pa. v. Boockvar

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh try to shorten deadlines for mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania by attempting to stay state supreme court decision.

 
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Lawsuits harder for disabled people

Waskul v. Washtenaw County Community Mental Health

Trump Sixth Circuit judge tried in dissent to prevent disabled individuals living independently from suing because their reduced state funded financial support has resulted in their not being able to receive services and their deteriorated conditions have put them at risk for community segregation or institutionalization.

 
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Dissent would give police immunity

Cortesluna v. Leon

Trump Ninth Circuit judge would allow qualified immunity for an officer who allegedly used excessive force against a non-resisting person lying face down on the ground.

 
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Restricted voted rights

New Georgia Project v. Raffensperger

Trump Eleventh Circuit judges Britt Grant and Barbara Lagoa halt COVID-19-related district court order that required Georgia to count valid absentee ballots received within three days of November election.

 
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Supported for anti-union organizers

Boardman v. Inslee

Judge Daniel Bress wrote in dissent that a law protecting the privacy of Medicaid-funded in-home care providers discriminated against advocates who oppose organized labor.

 
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