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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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Siding with company in overtime claims

Hewitt v. Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Ho writes opinion granting overtime pay to oil company supervisor who already made more than $200,000 per year.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections

Trump judges refuse to review an anti-transgender panel ruling even though it violated the court's own precedent.

 
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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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Harmed immigrants' rights

Doe v. Trump

The ACA specifically allows immigrants to use state health insurance exchanges, but Trump judge Daniel Collins upholds a Trump proclamation that denies entry to immigrants who plan to use such an exchange.

 
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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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Prevent wrongful death lawsuit

Sharp v. St Jude Medical Inc

Trump judge Newsom argues in dissent that court should uphold dismissal of woman's claim that manufacturing defects in a crucial medical device caused her husband's death.

 
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Limited data on gun safety

Everytown for Gun Safety v. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms

Trump Second Circuit judge Menashi writes opinion that conceals government data on gun violence and safety that was requested under FOIA

 
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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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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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