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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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Favoring insurers over injured consumer

McGranahan v Geico Indemnity Co

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Firing independent fed board members

Harris v Bessent

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Deportation under AEA to El Salvador

JGG v Trump

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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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Forced arbitration

Garcia v. Church of Scientology Flag Service Org. Inc.

Trump Judge Luck writes decision upholding ruling of an impromptu corporate arbitration panel without established rules or procedures and that unfairly deprived fraud victims of proper process

 
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Qualified immunity

JKJ v. City of San Diego

Trump Ninth Circuit judge Bumatay casts deciding vote to uphold dismissal of complaint and qualified immunity for police officer charged with causing the death of a young black woman by failing to get her medical help when in distress and in his custody.

 
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Border agents violate the Constitution

Elhady v. Unidetified CBP Agents

Trump judge Thapar rules that even US citizens cannot seek relief for constitutional violations, no matter how harmful, committed by US border patrol agents even inside the US.

 
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Struck down fuel efficiency standards

Truck Trailer Manufacturers Ass'n v. EPA

Trump judges Walker and Katsas invalidate important federal agency rules to improve fuel efficiency and reduce pollution from truck trailers.

 
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Age discrimination

Thompson v. DeKalb County

Trump Judge Luck dismisses county lawyer's age discrimination claim despite boss's ageist remarks and his replacement by younger workers

 
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Denied compassionate release during COVID

US v. Bass

Trump judge Murphy casts deciding vote to revoke COVID-related release of Black man.

 
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Age discrimination

DiCocco v. Garland

Trump Fourth Circuit judge Richardson rules that federal age discrimination law allows federal agencies to adopt policies that have a discriminatory impact on older workers.

 
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Age discrimination

Morrissey v. Mayorkas

Trump DC Circuit Judge Rao improperly relies on technicalities to uphold the dismissal of several age discrimination complaints against federal agencies

 
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COVID-era protections

BST Holdings LLC v. OSHA

Trump judge Engelhardt writes opinion, joined by Trump judge Duncan, which extends the stay halting Biden Administration rule requiring big business to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or other health and safety measures to combat the pandemic.

 
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Granted qualified immunity to prison official

Crawford v. Tilley

Trump judges Nalbandian and Larsen reverse district court and grant qualified immunity to allow government official to escape any liability for constitutional misconduct without even any discovery.

 
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Allowed private immigration prisons

GEO v. Newsom

Trump judges Lee and Bade reverse district court and grant preliminary injunction against state law attempting to end use of private prisons within its borders to detain immigrants.

 
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Employment safety claim

Poulter v. US Dep't of Labor

Trump Judge Bress casts deciding vote in case dismissing truck driver's claims that she was illegally fired for refusing to exceed truck's weight limit.

 
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Exposing immigrants to COVID

Frahait v. ICE

Trump judges Bress and Miller reverse district court injunction requiring ICE to take steps to protect detainees at elevated risk from COVID-19

 
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Blocked protections from e-cigarettes

Wages and White Lion Investment v. US Food & Drug Administration

Trump judges Oldham and Wilson stop the FDA from preventing the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, jeopardizing youth health and safety.

 
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Failure to prosecute crimes against women

Lefebure v. D'Aquilla

Trump judge Ho reverses district court decision and dismisses claim by sexual assault survivor that prosecutor conspired with rapist to deny her justice.

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

US v. Texas

Trump judge Ho casts deciding vote to keep draconian Texas abortion law in effect and stay preliminary injunction against it in lawsuit by Justice Department.

 
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COVID-era restrictions on churches

John Does 1-3 v. Mills

Dissenting and concurring opinions by Trump justices Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh raise threat of mandatory religious exemptions to important COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

 
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Upheld unfair death sentence

McGill v. Shinn

Trump Judge Collins casts deciding vote in case upholding death sentence under death penalty law that did not yet exist at time he committed crime.

 
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Cruelty in executions

Crow v. Jones

Trump justices Kavanaugh and Barrett cast deciding "shadow docket"� votes to authorize immediate executions even though the constitutionality of the execution method is to be litigated in a few months.

 
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Forced arbitration

Brice v. Plain Green LLC

Trump judges Forrest and Van Dyke reverse district court and require borrowers harmed by improper payday loans to abandon class action and pursue ineffective individual arbitrations.

 
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Upholds bad police search

US v. Gastelum

Trump judge Erickson upholds search of a car trunk without a warrant based on questionable claim of consent

 
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Rejecting state minimum wage law claim

Mujo v. Jani-King International Inc.

Trump judge Menashi casts deciding vote in a 2-1 ruling denying Connecticut employees claim that corporation violated state minimum wage laws

 
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Force arbitration

Harper v. Amazon.com Services Inc.

Trump judges Matey and Porter reverse lower court and require it to determine whether arbitration of individual worker's claim against large corporation should proceed under state law, at least delaying worker from going forward with class action on violation of federal wage and hour laws.

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

Trump justices cast deciding votes to keep in place draconian Texas abortion law.

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

Trump judges Duncan and Engelhardt help issue order continuing in effect a draconian Texas abortion law and a block against federal court action against it.

 
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