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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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Limiting liability of police
Lovell v. Union City Police Dep't.
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John Nalbandian cast the deciding vote to dismiss a woman's claim that she was coerced into settling a lawsuit against a day care center for endangering her son's life.
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Stopping Trump subpoena
Trump v. Mazars USA
Trump D.C. Circuit Judges Rao and Katsas argued in dissent that the full court should reconsider the panel decision, that Congressional subpoena of Trump's financial records should be quashed, and that Congress' ability to investigate as part of its legislative function should be seriously curtailed, sending the case to the Supreme Court.
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Lobbied disclosure requirements
Calzone v. Summers
Trump Eighth Circuit Judge David Stras, joined by Trump Eighth Circuit Judges Erickson, Grasz, and Kobes, wrote a full court opinion that reverses prior ruling and partly invalidates Missouri lobbyist registration and disclosure law, threatening all such disclosure requirements that promote transparency and good government.
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Kept a person in prison
U.S. v. Smith
Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham cast the deciding vote that required a person convicted of a federal crime to spend one more year in prison because of a prior misdemeanor conviction under a California controlled substances law.
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Tried to limit police officer liability
Winzer v. Kaufman County
Trump Fifth Circuit Judges Ho, Engelhardt, and Oldham try to deprive the family of a young Black man the chance to prove police improperly shot and killed him, trying to set back efforts to achieve police accountability.
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Tried to deny insurance benefits
Card v. Principal Life Ins. Co.
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Joan Larsen tried to uphold an insurance company's denial of any disability insurance benefits to a cancer victim, which could threaten the rights of other disabled people to such benefits as well.
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Trump record subpoena
Trump v. Mazars USA
Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao argued in a panel dissent that the Congressional subpoena of Trump's financial records should be quashed and that Congress' ability to investigate as part of its legislative function should be seriously curtailed.
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Dissent would risk immigrant's torture
Chavez v. Hott
Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson dissented and tried to authorize the indefinite imprisonment of refugees while they apply for withholding of removal from the U.S. because of fear of persecution or torture in their home countries.
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Dissent would harm immigrant
Ming Dai v. Barr
Trump Ninth Circuit Judges Bade, Bennett, Collins, Lee, and Nelson joined a dissent that tried to reverse a decision that gave an immigrant another chance to get asylum after severe mistreatment by China and to overturn a precedent that helps to protect asylum seekers.
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Attempted restrictions of abortion
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Box
Trump Seventh Circuit Judges Barrett, Brennan, Scudder, and St. Eve try to vacate and reconsider injunction protecting the reproductive rights of young women in Indiana and potentially elsewhere.
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Abuse in prison
Carter v. Allen
Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Newsom, Branch, and Grant vote to deny en banc rehearing and affirm the denial of a prisoner's right to seek damages for violation of his First Amendment right to file a grievance against a prison officer.
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Dissent would harm immigrants' rights
Camarena v. Director
Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch tried to authorize the immediate deportation of a long-time resident without giving her the chance to prove that she should have the chance to apply for a waiver of deportation, harming her and her family.
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Harmed voted rights
Thomas v. Bryant
Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett tries to reverse finding of improper redrawing of state senate district lines to harm Black voters and to restrict voting rights remedies, threatening voting rights for all minorities in deep south states in the Fifth Circuit.
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False arrest claim
DeGroot v. U.S.
Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Mark Bennett dissented from a decision reversing the district court's dismissal of a truck driver's false arrest and false imprisonment claims against border patrol agents, despite the driver being acquitted of wrongdoing by a jury.
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Allowed warentless search
U.S. v. Calderon-Fuentes
Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom made the difference in a panel ruling that a criminal defendant had consented to a warrantless search even though the agents lied about who they were and why they were there.
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Trying to grant police qualified immunity
Rudolph v. Babinec
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar argues in dissent that there should be no accountability for police forcing a woman to leave her home in the middle of the night for a psychiatric examination, threatening privacy rights.
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