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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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Invalidating firearms law

Williams v. Attorney General

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Stripping due process rights from immigrant

Sosnava Rodriguez v. Vergara

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Immunizing prison officials against harmful conditions

Baily v. Mich. Dept. of Corrections

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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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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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Granted prison official qualified immunity

Quinette v. Reed

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Britt Grant gives immunity to supervisors who let a jail employee guard inmates despite prior violent attacks.

 
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Upheld unfair death sentence

McKinney v. Arizona

Trump Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh wrote a 5-4 decision, joined by Justice Gorsuch, upholding a death sentence despite constitutional errors.

 
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Poisoned drinking water

City of Pomona v. SQM North America Corporation

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Kenneth Lee would allow a company to contaminate a city's drinking water with a toxic chemical.

 
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Racial discrimination in jury selection

Mitchell v. LaRose

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar cast the deciding vote to approve the race-based exclusion of an African American juror.

 
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Police get qualified immunity

Tobias v. East

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Daniel Collins grants qualified immunity to police officers who threatened a 13-year-old boy into confessing to a murder they knew he had not committed.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Bah v. Barr

Trump Fourth Circuit Judges Rushing and Richardson uphold the deportation of a Sierra Leone man who had been in the U.S. for more than twenty years although the drug offense conviction that authorized his removal was “ambiguous.”

 
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Dissent would harm immigrant

Perez v. Cuccinelli

Trump Fourth Circuit Judges Quattlebaum, Richardson, and Rushing tried to uphold the denial of special immigrant juvenile status to a teenager who fled to the U.S. because he was neglected and abused by his parents.

 
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Kept abortion information from patients

California v. Azar

Trump Ninth Circuit judges Lee and Miller joined an en banc majority upholding the Trump administration's rule prohibiting healthcare providers receiving Title X funds from discussing abortion with their clients and patients.

 
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Limited police officer liability

Estate of Smart v. City of Wichita

Trump Tenth Circuit Judge Allison Eid ruled that police did not have "fair notice" that it was illegal for them to shoot an unarmed, non-threatening man who was running away from them.

 
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Upholding Trump policies

Wolf v. Cook County

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor condemns Trump and other right-wing justices for bias in favor of Trump in granting stays of lower court decisions that have enjoined Trump policies concerning immigration, the border wall, and LGBTQ+ issues.

 
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Trying to stop ADA claim

Quezada v. Bechtel OG & C Construction Services Inc.

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho tries to prevent a woman with disabilities from enforcing an arbitration award against the corporation that she claimed discriminated against her in violation of the ADA.

 
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Interrogation against police

Subdiaz-Osorio v. Humphreys

Trump Seventh Circuit judges Scudder and St. Eve excused police for ignoring a suspect's request for a lawyer, thus weakening the Fifth Amendment's right to counsel.

 
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Tried to enforce unconstitutional plea

US v. Lockhart

Trump Fourth Circuit Judges Rushing and Quattlebaum tried to prevent a man's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea despite a clear error that added five to 10 additional years of imprisonment and prevented him from contesting the charges against him.

 
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Disability discrimination claims

Rodriguez v. Comcast

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Eric Miller sides with Comcast in a disability discrimination case brought forth by a former employee who was wrongfully terminated for requesting medical accommodation to recover from brain surgery.

 
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Upheld suppressed evidence

Long v. Hooks

Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson wrote an opinion excusing the improper state suppression of exculpatory evidence in a rape case against an African American man.

 
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Attempted voted rights restriction

Harding v. County of Dallas

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho tried to reverse a lower court decision in order to give white voters another chance to prove that a 2011 redistricting plan in Dallas County, Texas, racially discriminated against them and hurt their ability to elect Republican candidates of their choice.

 
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Disrespect towards transgender people

U.S. v. Varner

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan refuses to use the right gender pronoun and gratuitously disrespects all transgender people.

 
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Ineffective defense counsel

USA v. Hamilton

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Eric Miller dissented in a 2-1 decision to remand the case back to the district court for further inquiry into a criminal defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

De Leon-De Leon v. Barr

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Eric Miller dissented in a decision to require that an immigrant's asylum claim be reopened to introduce new evidence.

 
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