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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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Sex discrimination

Jones v. Johnson

Trump Sixth Circuit judge Chad Readler dissented in a sex discrimination case in which the district court denied the plaintiff's discovery requests against her employer.

 
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Fired a whistleblower

Bender v. Champlain Enterprises

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Bush and Larsen let an airline fire an employee who made public safety complaints because she clashed with management.

 
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Denied a visa

Tovar v. Zuchowski

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson cast the deciding vote to deny a spousal visa despite decades of contrary interpretation of the immigration statute.

 
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Coach harassed high school students

Chisholm v. St. Mary's School Dist.

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Chad Readler excuses harassment by high school teacher and coach against students, threatening to harm other students victimized by school officials' misconduct.

 
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Unfair removal of a juror

United States v. Ramos

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan's dissent tried to approve a trial court improperly removing a juror without an investigation.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Dieng v. Barr

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar voted to send a Senegalese woman and her two daughters back to Senegal in an asylum case despite compelling evidence they would be forced into female genital mutilation.

 
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Tried to limit post-conviction relief

Nalls v. Vanney

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho's dissent excused a lower court's abuse of discretion when it failed to grant equitable tolling to an individual seeking post-conviction relief of a decision against him.

 
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Allowed unfair sentence

Hueso v. Barnhart

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Eric Murphy ignores a clear sentencing error to require a man to remain in prison for 10 additional years.

 
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Weaken immunization requirements

Horvath v. City of Leander

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho claims in dissent that objections on religious grounds could invalidate a fire department's immunization policy.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Department of Homeland Security v. New York

Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh cast the deciding votes to allow the Trump administration to implement its revised public charge rule to deny immigrants permanent residency if they have applied for public benefits while the case is appealed.

 
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Rejecting on-the-job injury claim

Henry v. CMBB, LLC

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John Nalbandian cast the deciding vote to dismiss a worker's claim that her employer's deliberate action resulted in a devastating workplace injury that led to the amputation of both her arms.

 
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Granting qualified immunity to police

Jones v. City of Elyria

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Chad Readler's majority opinion in a police violence case failed to credit the victim's view of the facts as required in qualified immunity cases.

 
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Intimidated protest organizers

Doe v. Mckesson

Trump Fifth Circuit Judges Oldham, Engelhardt, and Ho cast the deciding votes to deny rehearing of a ruling against a Black Lives Matter activist that threatens to strip protesters of their First Amendment rights.

 
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Restarted border wall

El Paso County, Texas v. Trump

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham cast the deciding vote to stay a district court's nationwide injunction against Trump spending $3.6 billion on his border wall and to deny a request for expedited treatment, enabling Trump to spend these funds for a number of months, despite the injunction.

 
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Allowed police race-based targeted

Bey v. Falk

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Joan Larsen writes an opinion allowing and incentivizing improper police race-based targeting, surveilling, and detaining of people of color.

 
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Tried to limit prisoner safety claim

Lewis v. Siwicki

Trump Second Circuit Judge Michael Park tried to reverse a decision that gave an imprisoned man the chance to prove that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his safety, which resulted in a severe attack against him.

 
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Limited officer liability

U.S. v. O'Neal

Trump Tenth Circuit Judge Joel Carson allows constitutional violation as harmless error

 
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Upheld unfair billing

Faber v. Ciox Health LLC

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John Nalbandian cast the deciding vote to affirm a district court decision dismissing consumer claims against a company that overcharged for copies of medical records from medical providers.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Doe v. Trump

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Daniel Bress dissented from the denial of an emergency temporary stay of an order blocking Trump's immigration health care rule.

 
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Allowed unreasonable police stops

U.S. v. Darrell

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho cast the deciding vote to uphold a police stop-and-frisk without a specific and articulable basis, threatening people's constitutional right to go about their lives free from arbitrary police interference.

 
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Dismissed claim of police abuse

Reich v. City of Elizabethtown

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar cast the deciding vote to dismiss a woman's claim that police wrongfully used excessive force in shooting and killing her fianc�e, a decision that also threatens other victims of police violence, particularly those with similar mental illnesses.

 
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Excessive force

Slater v. Deasey

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Daniel Collins would have ruled that deputies who hogtied a man and caused him to suffocate were not on notice that they were using unconstitutionally excessive force and could be held liable.

 
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Struck down the ACA's individual mandate

Texas v. U.S.

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt casts the deciding vote in a lawless 2-1 panel decision finding the ACA's individual mandate unconstitutional and remanding the case to determine if that means the law should be struck down in its entirety.

 
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Minimum wage law limit

Lewis v. Governor of Alabama

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Newsom, Branch, and Grant prevent constitutional scrutiny of an Alabama law nullifying a local minimum wage increase in mostly-Black Birmingham.

 
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Harmed minority religion rights

Smith v. Owens

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Luck and Branch stay a lower court ruling that had required Georgia to adopt religious exemptions for Muslim men in prison.

 
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