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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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Weakened COVID safety measures

Gateway City Church v. Newsom

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett again cast deciding votes to grant special exemptions for churches from COVID-19 restrictions.

 
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Denied compassionate release

US v. Bass

Trump judge Nalbandian cast the deciding vote to stay a COVID-19-related compassionate release order and to send a Black man back to prison at least during pendency of appeal.

 
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Allowed execution

United States v. Higgs

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett cast deciding votes to deny stay and order immediate execution of 13th person executed by Trump DOJ in six months despite troubling legal claims.

 
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Allowed unreasonable police stop

US v. Lewis

Trump judge Nalbandian cast the deciding vote to authorize police to stop and question Black man walking in high-crime area with no reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.

 
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Withheld exculpatory evidence

Bracey v. Superintendent

Trump judge Phipps tries in dissent to affirm ruling rejecting post-conviction relief based on improper prosecution withholding of evidence.

 
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Prevented fraud lawsuit

Belliveau v. Barco Inc

Trump judge Willett cast the deciding vote to affirm summary judgment and prevent a trial on an individual's claim that a corporation had harmed him by committing fraud.

 
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Misrepresented consumer debt

Rivas v. Midland Funding LLC

Trump judges Brasher and Luck rule that corporate debt collector cannot be held liable for indirect misrepresentation under federal law.

 
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Attempted restrictions of abortion

Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge

Trump Eighth Circuit judge Ericson invites Supreme Court to overrule decision he joined that struck down restrictive Arkansas abortion law and to "revisit"� pro-choice precedent.

 
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Reduced injury damages

Echeverry v. Jazz Casino Co

Trump Fifth Circuit judge Wilson helps vacate jury damages verdict in favor of woman who was severely injured when she was run over by corporate vehicle.

 
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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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