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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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