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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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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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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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