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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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