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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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Tried to limit foster parents' claims

New York State Citizens Coalition v. Poole

Trump 2nd Cir judges Sullivan, Bianco and Park join dissent trying to prevent foster parents from suing for adequate funds to care for foster children, threatening the welfare of more than 25,000 foster children in New York, as well as those in Connecticut and Vermont

 
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Weakened fraud protection

FTC v. Credit Bureau Center

Trump Seventh Circuit Judges Barrett, Brennan, Scudder, and St. Eve join ruling prohibiting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from seeking restitution for defrauded consumers, empowering corporations' deceptive and fraudulent practices and seriously harming consumers in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

 
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Allowed police to break in to private home

Butler v. City of Detroit

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Larsen and Readler dismissed a homeowner's suit against a police officer for an unconstitutional break-in to his home, even though there was evidence the officer had gotten the search warrant based on a reckless disregard for the truth or even a deliberate falsehood.

 
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Conservative political rant

CIC Services v. IRS

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Bush, Larsen, Murphy, Nalbandian, Readler, and Thapar use dissent in IRS disclosure case to rail against the federal government and the authority of Congress to effectively address national problems.

 
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Attempted to limit officer liability

Howl v. Alvarado

Trump Tenth Circuit Judge Allison Eid's dissent would allow fabricated evidence to be used to dismiss a false arrest and malicious prosecution claim.

 
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Age discrimination

U.S. EEOC v. JC Wings Enterprises

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham casts deciding vote to prevent fired restaurant manager from seeking a remedy for his employer's retaliation against him for raising an age discrimination issue, yet another example of Trump judge rulings against working people .

 
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Ruled against prisoner claim

Sears v. Meddlebrooks

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Branch and Grant dismiss a prisoner's retaliation claim as frivolous despite the appeal's arguable basis in fact and law.

 
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Ruled against prisoner claim

Marbury v. Warden

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch's deciding vote to dismiss a man's claim that prison officials were delliberately indifferent to his concerns over prison violence, which culminated in him being severely stabbed, condones conduct that perpetuates prison violence.

 
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Tried to limit suits against police officers

Cole v. Carson

Trump Fifth Circuit Judges Ho, Willett, Duncan, and Oldham dissent from ruling, joined by Trump Judge Engelhardt, to try to prevent trial on police officers' use of excessive force in shooting a suicidal teenager, threatening ability to hold police accountable when they violate the law.

 
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Tried to enable fraud

In re: Willis Tower Watson Proxy Litigation

Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Marvin Quattlebaum dissents from ruling allowing securities class action to go forward, trying to prevent shareholders from getting a remedy for false and misleading corporate statements and threatening to more generally harm consumers and help corporations.

 
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Limited police officer liability

Cantu v. Moody

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham prevents accountability and damages against FBI agents whose lies and fabrication of evidence resulted in a person's imprisonment, harming the cause of law enforcement accountability.

 
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Trying to reverse grant of search warrant

U.S. v. Clark

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder would have denied the defendant a hearing to contest a warrant's validity despite evidence that a police officer recklessly or even intentionally failed to disclose vital information that undercut his case for a search warrant.

 
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Allow seizure of funds

U.S. v. Lillard

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Mark Bennett's dissent would allow the seizure of funds from a trust account to be applied to an outstanding restitution payment.

 
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Would have weakened ADA for theater-goers

Childress v. Fox Associates

Trump Eighth Circuit Judge Steven Grasz would have ruled that the ADA lets a theater refuse to provide captioning for deaf individuals except for one Saturday matinee per show.

 
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Denying black lung benefits claim

West Virginia CWP Fund v. Bell

Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson denies black lung benefits to disabled former coal mine worker, threatening similar benefits to other such workers.

 
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Tried to limit protection of homeless

Manning v. Caldwell

Trump Fourth Circuit Judges Quattlebaum and Richardson joined a harsh dissent where the full court majority decided 8-7 that a challenge can proceed to a Virginia law that targets people who are homeless and struggle with alcoholism for arrest and imprisonment.

 
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Granted qualified immunity to police

Corbitt v. Vickers

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch cast the deciding vote to reverse a lower court decision and rule that a police officer should be immune from being sued for shooting and injuring a 10-year-old boy after the police had already apprehended an unarmed suspect in the boy's yard.

 
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Limits on suits against police

Overbey v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore

Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Marvin Quattlebaum dissented in a ruling that declared unconstitutional a provision that the City of Baltimore used in most police abuse settlements that required survivors of police violence to refrain from discussing the case publicly on pain of losing half the settlement amount.

 
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Prosecuted pregnant woman for manslaughter

U.S. v. Flute

Trump Eighth Circuit Judge David Stras cast the deciding vote that a woman could be charged with manslaughter for using drugs while she was pregnant, which helped cause the death of her newborn child.

 
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Qualified immunity

Chandler v. Guttierrez

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Mark Bennett would have given qualified immunity to a prison warden alleged to have ignored reports that his staff was ignoring a prisoner's serious medical condition.

 
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Restarted the border wall

Trump v. Sierra Club

Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were critical to the Court's reversal of lower court opinions that had stopped construction of Trump's border wall to prevent irreparable injury.

 
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Tried to limit prison conditions' suits

Taylor v. Grubbs

Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson claimed that when a district court dismisses three lawsuits concerning improper prison practices by an incarcerated person at around the same time, the individual cannot appeal even one of those rulings unless he or she prepays the full filing fee, and cannot seek to waive or defer such costs based on lack of money.

 
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Banned public speech

Evans v. Sandy City

Trump Tenth Circuit Judge Allison Eid cast the deciding vote to approve a city ordinance that banned all speech on most street medians.

 
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Allowed unfair sentencing

Walker v. U.S.

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Bush, Thapar, Larsen, Nalbandian, Readler, and Murphy join en banc refusal to rehear a case on enhanced sentences under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) despite dissent by Kethledge.

 
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Upheld abortion gag rule

California v. Azar

Trump Ninth Circuit Judges Miller and Lee cast key votes in a decision that keeps in effect the controversial Trump administration domestic gag rule that restricts federally-funded health clinics from discussing abortion with their patients.

 
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