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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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Shooting claim against police

Easley v. City of Riverside

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Mark Bennett would have dismissed a police shooting case based on a legal argument that the defendants had already conceded and based on disputed facts that are within the jury's province to decide.

 
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Limiting release of grand jury records

McKeever v. Barr

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas cast the deciding vote to restrict judges' ability to release grand jury material that could also limit release of some of the information in the report of special counsel Robert Mueller.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Gloria Diaz-Rivas v. U.S. Attorney General

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Britt Grant was the deciding vote upholding a denial of an asylum claim and of equal protection of the law under the Fifth Amendment.

 
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Harmed fair housed rights

Inclusive Communities Project v. Lincoln Property Co.

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt was the author and deciding vote in decision that threatens to undermine Fair Housing Act.

 
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Dissent would deny attorneys' fees to victim

Guest-Marcotte v. Life Insurance Company of North America

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar tried to deny attorneys' fees to a worker with a disability who had to bring extensive legal proceedings to reverse what the majority called an "egregious"� denial of disability benefits.

 
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Upheldd warrantless search

U.S. v. Willie Lee Cooks

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom was the deciding vote in favor of a warrantless search of the crawlspace in an individual's home.

 
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Attempted restrictions of abortion

EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Beshear

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush voted to reverse a lower court decision and upheld a Kentucky law requiring physicians to subject women to medically unnecessary and potentially harmful procedures before providing them with abortion care.

 
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Forced arbitration

Lamps Plus v. Varela

Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh made it possible for the Court to take yet another step to reshape the law to strip working people of their rights against powerful corporations through forced arbitration.

 
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Harming homeless people

Martin v. City of Boise

Trump Ninth Circuit Judge Mark Bennett tried to uphold a Boise ordinance and practice that criminalized people who live in poverty and experience homelessness for sleeping outside when they had no access to alternative shelter.

 
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Unconstitutional evidence

U.S. v. Johnson

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Newsom, Branch, and Grant cast the deciding votes that reversed a panel decision and ruled that a police officer could seize and use as evidence a bullet found on an unarmed man who was not subject to a full search.

 
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Cruelty in executions

Bucklew v. Precythe

Trump Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch wrote and Justice Kavanaugh joined a 5-4 opinion that authorized execution despite evidence it would inflict cruel and unusual pain, significantly weakening Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

 
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Dissent would uphold unfair trial

U.S. v. Garcia

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Brennan would allow the denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal even though there was no direct evidence that the individual even possessed any cocaine and the conviction was based solely on a police agent's interpretation of an "encrypted"� phone call between the individual and another defendant.

 
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Let prosecutors breach plea agreement

U.S. v. Padgett

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch allows government breach of plea agreement.

 
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Allowed unfairly long sentence

U.S. v. Cox

Trump Eighth Circuit Judge Steven Grasz votes to uphold a sentence that was more than 60 years longer than the ordinary maximum, which effectively became a life sentence.

 
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Upheld abortion restriction

Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio v. Hodges

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Thapar, Bush, Larsen, and Nalbandian vote to allow Ohio's law to bar state health departments from providing funding to Planned Parenthood for health care services because it provides abortions with non-state funds.

 
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Upheld unfair sentence

U.S. v. St. Hubert

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Newsom and Branch allow an individual to receive a more severe sentence when intent for the act had not been proven.

 
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Harming job discrimination victims

Lewis v. City of Union City

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, joined by Trump Judges Branch and Grant, makes it dramatically harder for victims of illegal job discrimination to have their day in court when there isn't a "smoking gun."

 
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Dissent would harm immigrant

Solano-Abarca v. Barr

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John Nalbandian would allow abuse of discretion by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) when it failed to even discuss new medical evidence that showed that deportation of a parent would result in unusual hardship because of his sick daughter.

 
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Dismissing worker retaliation claim

Morgan v. Robinson

Trump Eighth Circuit Judges Stras and Grasz vote to throw out without a trial a claim that a sheriff had improperly fired a deputy to retaliate against him for statements made by the deputy during a political campaign against the sheriff.

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Nielsen v. Preap

Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh cast the deciding votes in a decision that ruled that under federal law, immigrants who have been released after committing even minor crimes should be picked up even years after their release and detained indefinitely pending possible deportation hearings.

 
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Dismissing prisoner medical care claim

Doering v. Kelley

Trump Eighth Circuit Judge Steven Grasz upholds the dismissal of a prisoner's claim that prison officials had denied him medical treatment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

 
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Limit insurance payment

Tamarin Lindenberg v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Bush, Thapar, and Nalbandian join Larsen in trying to severely limit damages against insurance company.

 
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Would rule against gun violence measure

Kanter v. Barr

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett would allow the overturning of a law banning people convicted of felonies from possessing firearms.

 
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Discrimination against transgender prisoners

Gibson v. Collier

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho votes to throw out without trial a claim that prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment by showing deliberate indifference to a transgender person in jail.

 
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Dismissing prisoner claim against BOP

Reid v. Hurwitz

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas would not allow an imprisoned man to present his claim that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was regularly violating his rights.

 
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