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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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Denied insurance benefits

Caldwell v. UNUM Life Insurance Company

Trump Tenth Circuit Judge Allison Eid cast the deciding vote denying parents the insurance benefits for the accidental death of their son, who died in a car crash.

 
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Harmed voted rights

Thomas v. Bryant

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett tries to reverse finding of improper redrawing of state senate district lines to harm Black voters and to restrict voting rights remedies, threatening voting rights for all minorities in deep south states in the Fifth Circuit.

 
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False arrest claim

DeGroot v. U.S.

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Mark Bennett dissented from a decision reversing the district court's dismissal of a truck driver's false arrest and false imprisonment claims against border patrol agents, despite the driver being acquitted of wrongdoing by a jury.

 
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Whistleblower retaliation

Singletary v. Howard

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas' dissent in a False Claims Act case would have made it much easier to for those defrauding the government to retaliate against whistleblowers.

 
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Allowed warentless search

U.S. v. Calderon-Fuentes

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom made the difference in a panel ruling that a criminal defendant had consented to a warrantless search even though the agents lied about who they were and why they were there.

 
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Trying to grant police qualified immunity

Rudolph v. Babinec

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar argues in dissent that there should be no accountability for police forcing a woman to leave her home in the middle of the night for a psychiatric examination, threatening privacy rights.

 
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Let president fire independent agency heads

Collins v. Mnuchin

Trump Fifth Circuit Judges Ho, Oldham, Engelhardt, and Duncan join Willett's opinion that gives power to the president to fire the head of an independent housing finance agency and helps hedge fund and other investors, threatening Congress' authority.

 
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Employment discrimination

Mandujano v. City of Pharr

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt casts deciding vote affirming decision to dismiss and refuse to allow amendment of firefighter's discrimination claim.

 
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Upheld unfair conviction

U.S. v. Catching

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Chad Readler argued in dissent that an individual who was on parole was properly returned to prison for five years for trafficking marijuana, even though the only proof that he was trafficking was that he was driving the car where the marijuana was found.

 
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Stood by excessive police force

Robinson v. Hawkins

Trump Eighth Circuit Judge Ralph Erickson cast the deciding vote against an individual's excessive force claim against a police officer despite partial dissents by Bush-appointed judges.

 
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Unfair jury selection

Howell v. Sup't Rockville SCI

Trump Third Circuit Judge David Porter cast the deciding vote that rejected a Black man's claim that Black people were improperly excluded from a jury pool, threatening Black people's Sixth Amendment rights throughout the states in the Third Circuit and elsewhere.

 
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Upheld unjustified police stop

U.S. v. Curry

Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson writes divided opinion reversing lower court decision and allowing police to stop someone without reasonable suspicion, threatening arbitrary stop-and-frisks by police in future cases.

 
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Upheld unfair death sentence

Anderson v. Kelley

Trump Eighth Circuit Judge David Stras cast the deciding vote against a death row inmate's Sixth Amendment violation claim against his attorney who failed to present evidence of his fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, despite a dissent by Trump Judge Jonathan Kobes.

 
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Would weaken ADA enforcement

U.S. v. Florida

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch's dissent claims DOJ cannot sue cities and states to enforce the ADA.

 
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Failure to protect student from sex crimes

Pearson v. Logan University

Trump Eighth Circuit Judge Jonathan Kobes cast the deciding vote denying a female student's Title IX claim against her university for failure to protect her against stalking and sexual harassment.

 
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Constitutional rights for detainees

Qassim v. Trump

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao joined the dissent in an 8-2 case and would have ruled that Guantanamo detainees have no constitutional Due Process rights.

 
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Required display of religious ads

Northeastern PA Freethought Society v. County of Lackawanna Transit System

Trump Third Circuit Judge David Porter cast the deciding vote to require a public transit company to display ads related to religion as opposed to other topics on its buses, threatening the same result or the banning of all private ads whatsoever on transit systems throughout the Third Circuit.

 
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Prevented suit on child's acid burn

Taillard v. Rooto Corp.

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush writes divided opinion dismissing products liability case.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Blanc v. U.S. Attorney General

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Britt Grant would allow immediate removal after an immigration judge's legal error.

 
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Dismissing injured person's claim

Chronis v. U.S.

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett dismissed an injured patient's suit for not seeking compensation at an administrative level the way a lawyer would have, rather than how an ordinary person unable to afford counsel would have.

 
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Executed someone with a mental disability

Jenkins v. Commissioner

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch writes 2-1 decision that execution of death-row prisoner with an IQ of 78 can go forward, even though his lawyer failed to present available mitigating evidence at the penalty phase of his trial, establishing a troubling precedent with respect to the death penalty throughout the Eleventh Circuit states of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.

 
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Rejected prisoner litigation

U.S. v. Taylor

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom casts the deciding vote to reject the exclusionary rule despite acknowledging that an individual's Fourth Amendment rights were violated.

 
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Tried to limit access to video evidence

Lennear v. Wilson

Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson tried to deny access to video evidence that could help incarcerated persons defend charges against them that threaten to force them to serve more time in prison.

 
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Tried to limit foster parents' rights

New York State Citizens' Coalition v. Poole

Trump Second Circuit Judges Sullivan, Park, and Bianco join dissent from refusal to reconsider decision that foster parents can sue for adequate payments to care for foster children under federal law.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Bastardo-Vale v. Attorney General

Trump Third Circuit Judges Bibas, Porter, and Matey join decision overturning prior precedent and excluding an immigrant from consideration for asylum because of a misdemeanor, contradicting federal law and harming immigrants.

 
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