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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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Age discrimination
Alberty v. Columbus Twp.
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush votes to uphold the dismissal of a claim by a 76-year-old Michigan woman who contends that she was fired in violation of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).
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Allowed broad police search of home computer
Peffer v. Stephens
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush allows police to search a person's entire house if the home computer may have been used in commission of a crime, which has been criticized as an "astonishingly broad"� decision that guts the right to privacy.
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Allowed car repossession
Title Max v. Northington
Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom votes to allow a multi-state lending corporation to repossess a car belonging to an individual who had declared bankruptcy, rather than sharing its value with other creditors.
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Ineffective assistance of counsel
Davila v. Davis
Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was the deciding vote in a ruling that when a state prisoner fails in a state post-conviction proceeding to challenge the ineffectiveness of the lawyer who handled his direct appeal, he cannot raise that claim in federal court even if the failure was caused by ineffective assistance of his post-conviction lawyer.
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Undermined investors
California Public Employees' Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc.
Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch cast the deciding vote that limited the time that investors have to decide whether to join class actions in securities cases.
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Trump dismantling of AID
Does 1-20 v Musk
Judge Marvin Quattlebaum, nominated by Donald Trump to the federal court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit, issued a decision staying a preliminary injunction by a district court that had stopped Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from dismantling the US Agency for International Development (AID).
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