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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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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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Racial discrimination case

Johnson v. Ohio Dep't. of Public Safety

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar wrote a 2-1 decision that dismissed a Black state trooper's job bias case and threatens to make it much harder to prove discrimination claims.

 
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Harmed reproductive health funding

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin v. Azar

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas cuts off judicial review of Trump's controversial family planning funding decisions.

 
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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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Harmed an immigrant

Bourdon v. USDHS

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Britt Grant cast the deciding vote affirming the denial of a U.S. citizen's legal green card sponsorship application for his wife, ignoring Immigration Services precedent decisions.

 
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Employee discrimination

Mauran v. Walmart

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Bridget Bade would make an employee who lost a discrimination case pay Walmart a quarter of his salary.

 
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Prevent trial on discrimination claim

Rogers v. Western University of Health Sciences

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Bridget Bade's dissent would prevent a student from going to trial on whether her university adequately accommodated her disabilities.

 
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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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Harmed an immigrant

Alvizuriz-Lorenzo v. U.S.

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom cast the deciding vote affirming the denial of asylum despite woman's years of rape and incest and refusal by government to take action.

 
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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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Upheld unfair sentence

U.S. v. Thomas

Trump Tenth Circuit Judge Allison Eid cast the deciding vote affirming a criminal sentence while ignoring federal and state statutory language that would have reduced the individual's sentence.

 
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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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Denied insurance benefits

Caldwell v. UNUM Life Insurance Company

Trump Tenth Circuit Judge Allison Eid cast the deciding vote denying parents the insurance benefits for the accidental death of their son, who died in a car crash.

 
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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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Whistleblower retaliation

Singletary v. Howard

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas' dissent in a False Claims Act case would have made it much easier to for those defrauding the government to retaliate against whistleblowers.

 
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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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