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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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Inadequate education for disabled child
L.J. v. School Board of Broward County
Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Britt Grant wrote a decision that defended a school board's failure to properly implement an individualized education program (IEP) for a middle school student on the autism spectrum.
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Trying to uphold weakening of safety rules
United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers v. MSHA
Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas partly dissented from a 2-1 ruling concluding that under Trump, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) improperly tried to weaken a rule protecting miners' health and safety.
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Harmed immigrant
Ramos v. Barr
Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett cast the deciding vote that authorized immediate deportation of an immigrant who has legally resided in the U.S. for 30 years without any chance to demonstrate that his removal would violate the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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Harmed rights against job bias
Inocencio v. Montalvo
Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt cast the deciding vote granting summary judgment without trial against a Latino Houston police detective who contended he was discriminated against when he sought a promotion.
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Poisoned drinking water
Guertin v. Michigan
Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Thapar, Larsen, Nalbandian, and Murphy joined a dissent that would have reversed a three-judge panel decision that allowed Shari Guertin to go forward with her claims against Flint officials concerning lead-poisoned water.
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Upholding driver's license suspensions
Fowler v. Benson
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar cast the deciding vote that reversed a lower court ruling and authorized Michigan to automatically suspend the drivers' licenses of low-income people who are unable to pay traffic fines without giving them a chance to prove their indigence and establish an alternative payment plan.
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Cruelty in executions
Price v. Dunn
Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joined a 5-4 order that refused to grant a short stay so that a scheduled trial could take place on a claim that execution by lethal injection would cause needless and "excruciating pain"� and that an alternative was available.
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Harmed immigrant
Yafai v. Pompeo
Trump Seventh Circuit Judges Barrett, Brennan, Scudder, and St. Eve provided the deciding votes preventing en banc reconsideration of a misguided 2018 panel ruling empowering arbitrary denial of a visa to the spouse of a United States citizen.
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Preventing a person from suing another state
Franchise Tax Bd. of Calif. v. Hyatt
Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joined a 5-4 decision that overruled a 40-year-old precedent, Nevada v. Hall, that said that individuals can sue a state in a court in another state.
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Employment non-discrimination
Barrow v. Cleveland
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush would have replaced the jury's conclusion with his own after a jury found that the city of Cleveland had unlawfully retaliated against a police officer for filing a racial discrimination complaint.
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Attorneys' fees in voted case
Brandon v. Guilford County Bd. of Elections
Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson tried to deny attorneys' fees to North Carolina voters who had successfully challenged Guilford County's enforcement of a state law that redrew Greensboro City Council districts in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
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Cruelty in executions
Dunn v. Price
Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joined a 5-4 decision that reversed two lower courts and authorized immediate execution of Christopher Price by lethal injection despite evidence that the method would cause him “severe pain and needless suffering” and that an alternative was available.
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Shooting claim against police
Easley v. City of Riverside
Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Mark Bennett would have dismissed a police shooting case based on a legal argument that the defendants had already conceded and based on disputed facts that are within the jury's province to decide.
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Limiting release of grand jury records
McKeever v. Barr
Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas cast the deciding vote to restrict judges' ability to release grand jury material that could also limit release of some of the information in the report of special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Dissent would deny attorneys' fees to victim
Guest-Marcotte v. Life Insurance Company of North America
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar tried to deny attorneys' fees to a worker with a disability who had to bring extensive legal proceedings to reverse what the majority called an "egregious"� denial of disability benefits.
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