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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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Let state take money from accident victim
Gallardo v. Dudek
Trump Eleventh Circuit judge Branch allows state to seize payments in judgments with third parties that are intended for future medical needs of Medicaid recipients, contradicting state supreme court ruling.
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Would allow certain healthcare discrimination
DaVita Inc. v. Marietta Mem. Hosp. Emp. Ben. Plan
Trump Sixth Circuit judge Murphy tried in dissent to dismiss a claim of discrimination by a health plan against patients suffering from a disease requiring dialysis.
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Tried to limit absentee ballots
Moore v. Circosta
Trump justice Gorsuch tries to block counting of absentee ballots received more than three days after Election Day in North Carolina and threatens post-election disqualification of absentee ballots in Pennsylvania
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Attempted restrictions of abortion
EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Friedlander
Trump Sixth Circuit judges Larsen and Readler uphold restrictive abortion requirements that district court found would leave Kentucky without a single licensed abortion clinic and announce improper standard for reviewing abortion restrictions.
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Rejected voted rights challenge
Curling v. Secretary of State
Trump Eleventh Circuit judges Barbara Lagoa and Andrew Brasher, without explanation, block order that required paper backups of Georgia online voter records to avoid long lines and other serious problems on Election Day
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Would have weakened ADA in employment
Exby-Stolley v. Board of County Comm'rs
Trump Tenth Circuit judges Eid and Carson joined a dissent that tried to make it harder for disabled people to prove that an employer failed to accommodate a disability by mandating proof that the employer also took adverse action against the individual.
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Tried to give qualified immunity
Dean v. McKinney
Trump judge Julius Richardson tries in dissent to reverse district court and grant qualified immunity to a police officer who severely injured another driver in a head-on collision when he was driving recklessly
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Permitting solitary confinement
Porter v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
Trump Third Circuit judge would allow a death row prisoner to remain in solitary confinement after being held there for more than 33 years in violation of his right to due process.
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Employment discrimination
Mandala v. NTT Data Inc
Trump Second Circuit judges Sullivan and Nardini stopped individuals representing a class of African Americans from trying to prove that a blanket company policy disqualifying people from employment because of prior criminal convictions has an illegal discriminatory impact on African Americans.
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Halted bail hearing recordings
Reed v. Bernard
Trump Third Circuit judge Phipps casts deciding vote to reverse district court and rule that public has no meaningful right of access to bail hearings, with potentially damaging consequences to First Amendment right of access to other government proceedings.
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