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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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Immigrant complaint
Doe v. Pasadena Unified School District
Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Kenneth Lee dismissed a case against a school principal who threatened to turn an undocumented immigrant parent in to immigration if she complained to the school board about his lunch policy.
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Unfair dismissal of loan discrimination
City of Miami Gardens v. Wells Fargo
Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Newsom and Branch deny an en banc rehearing to the City of Miami Garden's dismissed suit against Wells Fargo for racially discriminatory mortgage loan practices.
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Denied asylum claim
Singh v. Barr
Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Eric Miller casts the deciding vote denying an asylum claim without requiring the government to meet its burden of proof to provide individualized analysis that the asylum applicant did not have a well-founded fear of future persecution if returned to his home country.
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Rejected prisoner abuse claim
In re Courtney Wild
Trump Eleventh Circuit judge Kevin Newsom determined that the Crime Victims' Rights Act does not protect a sexual abuse victim's rights because federal prosecutors failed to disclose that the government entered into a federal immunity deal with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Tried to immunize police for seized vehicle
Leonard v. City of Nelsonville
Trump Sixth Circuit judge Eric Murphy tries to prevent a man from pursuing his claim that police officers violated his constitutional rights by improperly seizing and towing away his vehicle
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Dissent would risk immigrant's torture
Manning v. Barr
Trump Second Circuit judge Richard Sullivan tries to uphold a deportation order despite DHS' failure to consider credible evidence that a Jaimaican immigrant would be tortured and killed if he was returned.
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