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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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Upheld voter ID law

Merrill v. People First of Ala

Trump justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh cast deciding votes to ban curbside voting for disabled and elderly voters in Alabama.

 
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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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Trying to force unions to repay fees

Diamond v. Pennsylvania State Educ Assn

Trump Third Circuit judge Phipps tries in dissent to authorize lawsuits to force unions to refund legal fair-share fees from non-union members

 
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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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Dissent would block claim against ICE

Gonzales v. United States ICE

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Bade tried in dissent to prevent judicial review of claims of systemic misconduct by Ice with respect to immigration detainers

 
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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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Reduced damages to police violence victim

Kidis v. Reid

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Readler cut a damages award by a jury against a police officer who used excessive force by $150,000.

 
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Expelled immigrants

Ramos v. Wolf

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Ryan Nelson casts the deciding vote to help Trump Administration carry out its plan to expel more than 300,000 immigrants by ending their temporary protected status.

 
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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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Tried to limit liability for child death

Lipman v. Budish

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Nalbandian tries in dissent to excuse county for custom that helped lead to the death of an African American child through child abuse.

 
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Allowed unjustified search warrants

US v. Cano

Trump Ninth Circuit judges Bennett, Nelson, Bade, and Van Dyke argue in dissent that cell phones can be seized and searched at the border without a warrant

 
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Trying to prematurely stop census

National Urban League v. Ross

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Bumatay tries in dissent to let the Trump Administration Prematurely Stop the Census.

 
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Restricted voted rights

Jones v. Governor of Florida

An all-Republican majority upheld their fellow Republicans' scheme to strip nearly one million Floridians of their ability to vote.

 
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Illegal telemarketing

Revitch v. DIRECTV

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Bennett tries in dissent to require individual arbitration of claims that corporation made illegal telemarketing calls and to dismiss class action claim for broader consumer relief.

 
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Banks denied interest payments

McShannock v. JP Morgan Chase Bank

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Nelson writes decision overturning district court and holding that big banks can pay zero interest to homeowners on escrow accounts related to loans purchased from federal savings associations before 2013.

 
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Police liability for seized property

Freed v. Thomas

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Larsen argues in dissent that federal lawsuit cannot be filed against a county that kept all the proceeds from the sale of foreclosed property, without paying excess proceeds to the owner

 
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Qualified immunity

El v. City of Pittsburgh

Trump Third Circuit judge Phipps argues in dissent that court should have reversed lower court and granted immunity to police officer accused of using excessive force against Black man.

 
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Tried to uphold abortion gag rule

Mayor & City of Baltimore v. Azar

Trump Fourth Circuit judges Julius Richardson, Marvin Quattlebaum, and Allison Rushing argued in dissent that the court should uphold a harmful Trump Administration abortion gag rule.

 
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Porter v. City and County of San Francisco

After a woman experiencing significant mental illness died in mysterious circumstances, Trump Judge Daniel Bress dismissed a lawsuit against the state employee who was supposed to be looking after her.

 
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Dissent would give police immunity

Lam v. City of Los Banos

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Bennett tried in dissent to overturn a jury verdict and grant immunity to police officer who shot and killed a man in his own home.

 
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Would rule against gun violence measure

Mai v. United States

Trump Ninth Circuit judges Bumatay, Van Dyke, Collins, Bennett, Bade, Bress, and Hunsaker try in dissent to overturn longstanding federal restrictions on gun possession by people who have been involuntarily committed for mental illness.

 
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Counsel admit defendant's guilt

Thompson v. United States

Britt Grant ruled against a man on trial for robbery whose lawyer told the jury that the defendant had, in fact, committed the robbery.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Patel v. U.S. Attorney General

Trump's 11th Circuit judges create a majority to grant immigration officials extraordinary power to insulate certain decisions from judicial review.

 
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Qualified immunity

In re Gibbons

Trump Third Circuit judges Bibas, Porter, Phipps, and Matey cast deciding votes to prevent the full court from rehearing a case in which Porter and Phipps reversed a district court and granted qualified immunity to a state trooper who shot and killed a black man.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Gjetani v. Barr

Trump Fifth Circuit judge Ho writes opinion affirming denial of asylum to Albanian refugee who was threatened with death three times and physically attacked due to his political beliefs.

 
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