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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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Minimum wage claim

Hurt v. Commerce Energy Inc

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Eric Murphy tries to excuse corporation's violation of minimum wage and overtime pay laws protecting employees.

 
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Suit against Trump

CREW v. Trump

Trump Second Circuit judges Steven Menashi and Richard Sullivan tried in dissent to rehear and dismiss a lawsuit against President Trump for violating the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause that a 3-judge panel had previously ruled could go forward.

 
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Police get qualified immunity

Kohorst v. Smith

Trump Eighth Circuit judges Ralph Erickson and David Stras affirm grant of qualified immunity to and dismissal of claims against officers accused of using excessive force, including tasing an individual three times.


 
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Labor violations

Pacific Maritime Assn v. NLRB

Trump DC Circuit judge Neomi Rao tries to partly excuse companies' unfair labor practices in disciplining an employee.

 
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Dissent would harm immigrant

Hong T. Vo v. Barr

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Bridget Bade tries to uphold rejection of abuse victim's asylum request.

 
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Denial of insurance benefits

O'Keeffe v. Continental Cas Co

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Eric Readler wrote a divided ruling dismissing a claim that an insurance company should not have cut off medical coverage to an elderly woman.

 
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Miscarriage of justice

US v. Medley

Trump Fourth Circuit judge Marvin Quattlebaum tries in dissent to uphold conviction despite conflict with recent Supreme Court decision.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Martinez v. Larose

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Amul Thapar casts deciding vote to permit continued detention of immigrant who has been in custody for more than two years.

 
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Upheld unjustified police stop

US v. Santiago-Francisco

Trump Fourth Circuit judge Marvin Quattlebaum writes opinion that upholds the stop and frisk of an immigrant and endangers the rights of anyone in this country who has previously been deported.

 
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Voter ID law

Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Secretary of State

Trump Eleventh Circuit judge Elizabeth Branch writes opinion upholding Alabama voter ID law

 
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Disability discrimination

Fry v. Rand Constr. Corp.

Trump Fourth Circuit judge Julius Richardson writes opinion affirming termination of employee with MS shortly after taking FMLA leave, nullifying jury verdict in her favor.

 
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Would allow unfair trial

U.S. v. Obagi

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Patrick Bumatay would have upheld the conviction of an individual despite the government's failure to disclose evidence favorable to the defendant that it had in its possession.

 
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Native American rights

McGirt v. Oklahoma

Trump justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh split in important case on Native American tribal sovereignty.

 
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Tried to gut COVID protections

Calvary Chapel v. SIsolak

Trump Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch try again in dissent to exempt church from COVID-19 health-protection rules

 
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Would weaken the ADA for employees

Rosales v. Bellagio

Trump Ninth Circuit judge would have allowed an employer to violate the ADA by not making a good faith effort to engage in the process of determining whether there was a possible accommodation for an employee.

 
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Hide evidence of torture

Husayn v. Mitchell

Trump Ninth Circuit judge dissented from a refusal to rehear en banc a ruling that would allow a prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to subpoena documents that would help him in proceedings concerning alleged torture by the CIA.

 
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Restarted the border wall

Trump v. Sierra Club

As in 2019, Trump justices again cast deciding votes to allow construction of Trump border wall to continue

 
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Denied medical benefits

Lyn M. v. Premera Blue Cross

Trump Tenth Circuit judge Allison Eid tried in dissent to uphold denial of medical benefits under an ERISA plan.

 
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Anti-LGBTIQQ dissent

Bautista v. Barr

Trump judge Van Dyke's dissent criticizes an expert for testifying too often about increasingly perilous anti-LGBTQ+ persecution in Mexico.

 
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Coverup of arming foreign rebels

New York Times v. CIA

Trump Second Circuit judge Michael Park casts deciding vote to allow CIA coverup of program of arming Syrian rebels despite Trump admission that the program existed

 
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Upheld unfair trial

Stewart v. Winn

Trump Sixth Circuit judges Eric Murphy and Chad Readler deny new trial despite inflammatory testimony concerning threatened rampage against jury.

 
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Prevent trial over toxic gas

Scott v. Dyno Nobel Inc

Trump Eighth Circuit judge Jonathan Kobes tries in dissent to excuse corporation from any responsibility for injuries caused by its nitric acid manufacturing plant.

 
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Improper prison medical care

Estate of Richie Majors v. Gerlach

Trump Sixth Circuit judge John Bush tries in dissent to excuse medical personnel who failed to treat MS that killed prisoner.

 
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Resisting Trump subpoenas

Trump v. Vance

Trump Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch try to make it easier for Trump to resist state grand jury subpoena

 
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Employment discrimination

Gogel v. KIa Motors

Trump Eleventh Circuit judges Elizabeth Branch and Britt Grant cast key votes to uphold summary judgment against a woman's claim that she was improperly fired in retaliation for raising discrimination claims and to more broadly harm Title VII rights.

 
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