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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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Rejecting immigrant's attempt to cancel deportation

Rios-Rocha v Bondi

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Throwing out remedy against Starbucks for unfair practices

NLRB v Starbucks

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Granting qualified immunity

Harris v Kim

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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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Harmed rights against job bias

Jones v. Hosemann

Trump judges Willett and Oldham dismiss an African American man's racial workplace discrimination claim against Mississippi state officials, contradicting past precedent and making it harder to prove violations of an important federal anti-discrimination law.

 
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Reduced insurance reimbursement

Perry v. Allstate Indemnity Co.

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Chad Readler tries to prevent ruling in favor of homeowners on insurance payments for home damage.

 
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Excuse officials for liability due to injury

Winger v. City of Garden Grove

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Kenneth Lee would have allowed officers to ignore a woman's serious medical need after she suffered a stroke shortly before her arrest.

 
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Cut back asylum

Al Otro Lado v. Wolf

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Daniel Bress tries to permanently deprive 25,000 immigrants of any right to seek asylum.

 
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Workplace discrimination

Farrens v. Esper

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Kenneth Lee made it harder for an employee to present evidence of a racially hostile work environment.

 
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Prevented antitrust lawsuit

Frost v. LG Electronics Inc.

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson casts deciding vote to affirm dismissal of antitrust complaint against two large electronics companies

 
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Upheld deportation

Ceren v. Barr

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson casts deciding vote to affirm deportation.

 
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Dissent would harm immigrant

Padilla v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Bridget Bade would have allowed the government to delay asylum seekers' due process right to interviews and bond hearings.

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

In re Abbott

Trump Fifth Circuit judge Kyle Duncan casts deciding vote to allow Texas to use coronavirus as an excuse to ban abortions.

 
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Let insurance deny coverage

Keathley v. Grange Ins. Co.

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Amul Thapar casts the deciding vote to dismiss a homeowner's insurance claim against an insurance company for more than $130,000.

 
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Refused to unseal grand jury records

Pitch v. USA

Trump Eleventh Circuit judges Newsom, Grant, and Branch help overrule the Court's own precedent of more than 40 years and conclude that district courts do not have the discretion to unseal grand jury records.

 
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Harmed LGBTQ+ rights

Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections

Trump Eleventh Circuit judge Kevin Newsom reverses a district court order that a Florida prison must provide comprehensive gender affirming care to an incarcerated transgender woman with gender dysphoria.

 
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Violated free speech

Knight First Amendment Inst. v. Trump

Trump Second Circuit Judges Sullivan and Park try to give Trump the power to block his critics on Twitter in violation of First Amendment.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Chen v. Barr

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson would have upheld a denial of asylum even though the immigration judge was openly hostile to the applicant and provided an interpreter for a language he barely understood.

 
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Impeachment records

In re House Judiciary Committee

Trump Judge Neomi Rao would block the House from accessing grand jury records as part of its impeachment investigation.

 
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Allowed anti-immigrant policies

Kansas v. Garcia

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh voted with the majority in a 5-4 decision that effectively allows states to set and enforce their own anti-immigrant employment policies.

 
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Denying prisoner injury claim

Smith v. Davis

Trump Ninth Circuit Judges Bennett and Nelson penalize an incarcerated individual for extraordinary circumstances out of his control.

 
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Hid prison conditions

In re Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Branch and Luck compelled the district court to grant a motion for a protective order that would restrict disclosure of information about challenging prison conditions.

 
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Unfair employment practices

Ozburn-Hessey Logistics LLC v. NLRB

Trump Sixth Judge Chad Readler tried in dissent to overturn remedies ordered by the NLRB against a company that committed unfair labor practices, including firing employees for engaging in union-related activity.

 
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Upheld unfair plea deal

Zachary Love v. U.S.

Trump Eighth Circuit judge Ralph Erickson cast the deciding vote to deny an evidentiary hearing on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim despite evidence that may prove the attorney acted unreasonably.

 
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Rejected claim for police-caused injury

Keller v. Fleming

Trump Fifth Circuit judge Don Willett casts deciding vote to dismiss case against police officer for helping cause death of pedestrian.

 
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Violation of transgender rights

Edmo v. Corizon

Trump Ninth Circuit judges Collins, Bumatay, Bade, Nelson, Van Dyke, Hunsaker and Bress dissented from a vote to deny an en banc rehearing of a three-judge panel decision that ruled that the state of Idaho must provide sex reassignment surgery to a transgender woman in prison with severe gender dysphoria.

 
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Qualified immunity

Hernandez v. Mesa

Trump Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch cast deciding votes to effectively immunize a border patrol agent for shooting and killing someone across the border from U.S. territory.

 
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Block environmentalists from lawsuit

Kane County v. United States

Trump Tenth Circuit Judges Eid and Carson try to prevent an environmental group from participating in a lawsuit concerning proposed road construction in a protected wilderness area.

 
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Restricted voted rights

Alabama State Conference of the NAACP v. Alabama

Trump Eleventh Circuit judge Elizabeth Branch's dissent claims that people or organizations cannot sue states for violating the Voting Rights Act.

 
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