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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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Harmed immigrant

W.M.V.C. v. Barr

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett cast the deciding vote in denying an asylee's right to be compensated for legal fees she had incurred solely because the federal government had pursued an obviously meritless claim against her.

 
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Violated free of speech

Butler v. Board of County Commissioners

Trump Tenth Circuit Judges Eid and Carson voted with the majority against rehearing a decision raising a freedom of speech violation against a government employer who demoted an employee for testifying as a private citizen in a child custody matter.

 
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Censored public access cable

Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck

Trump Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch ruled that two producers could be banned from Manhattan cable TV public access channels because they produced a film criticizing the company that runs the channels.

 
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Misleading jury instructions

Ashley C. Scott v. U.S.A.

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch dissented from the majority decision that concluded the district court failed to provide proper jury instructions in a criminal tax case.

 
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Limit recovery by Holocaust survivors

Philipp v. Federal Republic of Germany

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas issued a solo dissent from the full court's decision not to reconsider a ruling that upheld Holocaust survivors' ability to sue a German agency to recover property seized by the Nazis.

 
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Limit police immunity

Williams v. City of Georgetown

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John Nalbandian cast the deciding vote to uphold the dismissal of a woman's claim that police improperly abandoned her brother late at night, even though they knew he was impaired, leading to his death several hours later.

 
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Inadequate education for disabled child

L.J. v. School Board of Broward County

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Britt Grant wrote a decision that defended a school board's failure to properly implement an individualized education program (IEP) for a middle school student on the autism spectrum.

 
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Trying to uphold weakening of safety rules

United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers v. MSHA

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas partly dissented from a 2-1 ruling concluding that under Trump, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) improperly tried to weaken a rule protecting miners' health and safety.

 
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Allowed unfair trial

U.S. v. Ricks

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham cast the deciding vote to reject a challenge to actions that substantially interfered with a person's ability to defend himself against drug and gun charges.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Ramos v. Barr

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett cast the deciding vote that authorized immediate deportation of an immigrant who has legally resided in the U.S. for 30 years without any chance to demonstrate that his removal would violate the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

 
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Dissent would end DACA

Casa de Maryland v. DHS

Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson dissented in a decision to strike down the Trump administration's rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

 
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Harmed rights against job bias

Inocencio v. Montalvo

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt cast the deciding vote granting summary judgment without trial against a Latino Houston police detective who contended he was discriminated against when he sought a promotion.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Amar Jit v. William Barr

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson disagreed with the majority decision reversing a denial of an asylum claim based on irrelevant inconsistencies in the individual's statements.

 
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Poisoned drinking water

Guertin v. Michigan

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Thapar, Larsen, Nalbandian, and Murphy joined a dissent that would have reversed a three-judge panel decision that allowed Shari Guertin to go forward with her claims against Flint officials concerning lead-poisoned water.

 
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Uphold misleading loan agreement

Laskaris v. Fifth Third Bank

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Joan Larsen dissented from a panel decision that protected borrowers from a confusing contract imposed on them by their bank.

 
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Allowed unjustified search warrants

U.S. v. Antoine Richmond

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Brennan cast the deciding vote against an individual's Fourth Amendment protection against an unreasonable search and seizure.

 
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Upholding driver's license suspensions

Fowler v. Benson

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar cast the deciding vote that reversed a lower court ruling and authorized Michigan to automatically suspend the drivers' licenses of low-income people who are unable to pay traffic fines without giving them a chance to prove their indigence and establish an alternative payment plan.

 
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Campaign finance laws

Libertarian National Committee v. Federal Election Commission

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas sought to exempt the sizable bequest of a deceased donor from federal campaign finance laws.

 
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Cruelty in executions

Price v. Dunn

Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joined a 5-4 order that refused to grant a short stay so that a scheduled trial could take place on a claim that execution by lethal injection would cause needless and "excruciating pain"� and that an alternative was available.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Yafai v. Pompeo

Trump Seventh Circuit Judges Barrett, Brennan, Scudder, and St. Eve provided the deciding votes preventing en banc reconsideration of a misguided 2018 panel ruling empowering arbitrary denial of a visa to the spouse of a United States citizen.

 
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Preventing a person from suing another state

Franchise Tax Bd. of Calif. v. Hyatt

Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joined a 5-4 decision that overruled a 40-year-old precedent, Nevada v. Hall, that said that individuals can sue a state in a court in another state.

 
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Employment non-discrimination

Barrow v. Cleveland

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush would have replaced the jury's conclusion with his own after a jury found that the city of Cleveland had unlawfully retaliated against a police officer for filing a racial discrimination complaint.

 
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Dissent would harm immigrants

Hao Lin v. Barr

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Mark Bennett would have made it harder for victims of persecution abroad to be granted asylum.

 
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Attorneys' fees in voted case

Brandon v. Guilford County Bd. of Elections

Trump Fourth Circuit Judge Julius Richardson tried to deny attorneys' fees to North Carolina voters who had successfully challenged Guilford County's enforcement of a state law that redrew Greensboro City Council districts in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

 
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Cruelty in executions

Dunn v. Price

Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joined a 5-4 decision that reversed two lower courts and authorized immediate execution of Christopher Price by lethal injection despite evidence that the method would cause him “severe pain and needless suffering” and that an alternative was available.

 
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