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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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Rejecting immigrant's attempt to cancel deportation

Rios-Rocha v Bondi

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Throwing out remedy against Starbucks for unfair practices

NLRB v Starbucks

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Granting qualified immunity

Harris v Kim

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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 unjust punishment

Snider v. U.S.

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush would not vacate the sentence of someone who had been incorrectly designated as a career offender.

 
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Unconstitutional evidence

U.S. v. Shrum

Trump Tenth Circuit Judge Allison Eid would allow the exclusion of evidence seized as a result of a violation of an individual's Fourth Amendment rights.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Rodriguez-Penton v. U.S.

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar argues that a lawyer did not provide ineffective assistance of counsel when he failed to warn his client, a legal permanent resident from Cuba, that pleading guilty to an unrelated drug offense could cause deportation.

 
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Stifle citizen complaints on police

Seals v. McBee

Trump Fifth Circuit Judges Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt and Oldham try to reverse panel decision that struck down under the First Amendment a Louisiana law that criminalized making threats of even lawful action against public officers.

 
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Limited police liability

Brennan v. Dawson

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Nalbandian and Thapar refuse to allow a remedy for what they agreed was a violation by a sheriff's deputy of a homeowner's privacy rights.

 
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Tried to limit rights to sue

Tolliver v. Noble

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush would allow an individual to be improperly denied an opportunity to file an amended complaint for deprivation of constitutional rights.

 
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Dimissing suit against the police

Ericson v. Frankenberry

Trump Seventh Circuit Judges Brennan and St. Eve dismiss an invasion of privacy claim by an airplane pilot who, while sleeping in a pilot's lounge at an airport, was awoken by two police officers who did not identify themselves and searched and arrested him.

 
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Upheld unfair sentence

Ovalles v. U.S.

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Newsom and Branch allow enhanced sentences despite the plain text of the statute and Supreme Court precedent.

 
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Harmed church-state separation

Kondrat'yev. v. City of Pensacola

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom votes to allow a large cross maintained by the city on public property and urges overruling precedent on establishment of religion.

 
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Allowed unfair sentence

U.S. v. Heard

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Larsen and Thapar allow enhanced sentences despite demonstration by dissent that sentences were substantively unreasonable.

 
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Unconstitutionally obtained evidence

George Alvarez v. The City of Brownsville

Trump Fifth Circuit Judges Ho and Willett vote against person who was declared "factually innocent"� after the city failed to disclose evidence that would have proven his innocence and he was kept in prison for four years.

 
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Helped religious school

Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar argues for an interpretation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) that is contrary to most courts of appeals and would have granted questionable favorable treatment to a religious school.

 
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Qualified immunity

Morgan v. Fairfield County

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar would narrow protections from warrantless searches by letting police surround a house and peer inside without a warrant.

 
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Unfairness in criminal trials

U.S. v. Moya

Trump Tenth Circuit Judge Allison Eid would allow government expert testimony even with a failure to provide proper notice.

 
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Rejection of pollution claim

Henderson v. City of Flint

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Joan Larsen dismissed a petition to review air pollution permits issued to a company that wanted to build a natural gas pipeline in Ohio and Michigan.

 
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Kept people in jail

O'Donnell v. Harris County

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan helps uphold the Texas practice of keeping poor people in jail who cannot pay bail on minor misdemeanor offenses, without even determining whether release without bail would pose any problems.

 
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Limiting official liability

Reynolds v. Hepp

Barrett cast the deciding vote in a panel ruling against the plaintiff in a case where his lawyer put his own interest before his client's interest as a result of a state pay cut.

 
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Allowed unfair sentence

U.S. v. Gipson

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho votes to allow enhanced sentence based on presentencing report, despite dissent demonstration that report lacked the required "adequate evidentiary basis with sufficient indicia of reliability."

 
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Harmed immigrant

Moreno-Martinez v. Sessions

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John Nalbandian votes to allow federal immigration authorities to immediately remove an undocumented immigrant who had been married to a U.S. citizen for ten years, has two children who are U.S. citizens, and has a "clean police record."

 
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Upheld unfair sentence

Beeman v. U.S.

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Newsom and Branch allow a longer sentence to stand even though it was based on an erroneous interpretation of statute.

 
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Employment discrimination

McClellan v. Midwest Machining

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar would allow corporations to more easily intimidate employees into giving up their Title VII rights.

 
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Exposed immigrant to risk of torture

Alvarenga-Flores v. Sessions

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett rejects request for protection from deportation under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) that was never even considered on the merits.

 
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Prevent securities fraud lawsuit

Alaska Electrical Pension Fund v. Asar

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho would be in favor of a company and its former CFO over a pension fund despite the company's admission of overstating its income by $87 million.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Burka v. Sessions

Trump Eighth Circuit Judge David Stras, based on a factual finding the agency never made, decided the court did not have jurisdiction to review an administrative decision to refuse to process an asylum application.

 
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Pretrial deletion approved

Moya v. Garcia

Trump Tenth Circuit Judges Eid and Carson III vote to deny rehearing of a claim that individuals were kept in jail for long periods without arraignment, in violation of state law and their due process rights.

 
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