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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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Religious freedom violation
Dunn v. Ray
Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh voted to reverse a ruling that had temporarily stayed an execution because of a "powerful" claim that prison officials had violated the prisoner's religious liberty.
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Allowed Medicare fraud
U.S.A., ex rel Stephanie Strubbe v. Crawford County Memorial Hospital
Trump Eighth Circuit Judge Ralph Erickson votes to dismiss hospital employees' claims of serious fraud against the hospital in violation of the False Claims Act (FCA).
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Allowed dangerous pollution permits
Protecting Air for Waterville v. Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Joan Larsen dismisses, for lack of standing, 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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Upheld abortion restriction
June Medical Services v. Gee
Trump Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch plus Fifth Circuit Court Judges Willett, Ho, Engelhardt, and Oldham would allow a restrictive Louisiana anti-choice law to go into effect, even though it is virtually identical to a Texas provision struck down by the Supreme Court.
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Upheld abortion restriction
June Medical Services v. Gee
Trump Fifth Circuit Judges Engelhardt, Ho, Oldham and Willet joined majority in en banc decision to allow restrctive Louisiana anti-abortion TRAP law to go into effect despite the fact that it is virtually identical to a Texas TRAP law struck down by SCOTUS three years ago.
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Tried to uphold conviction under vague law
U.S. v. Simms
Trump Fourth Circuit Judges Richardson and Quattlebaum would allow the conviction under an unconstitutionally vague criminal law by rewriting it in a way that the Supreme Court has clearly rejected.
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Transgender military ban
Trump v. Karnoski, Trump v. Stockman
Trump Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh cast the deciding votes to order that the injunctions against the transgender military ban be lifted while the lower court opinions are reviewed in the court of appeals and possibly the Supreme Court.
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State sponsored prayer at board meeting
Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Chino Valley Unified School District
Trump Ninth Circuit Judges Nelson and Bennett voted for a rehearing that would have reversed a panel decision affirming a lower court ruling striking down a school board policy of government-sponsored prayer at school board meetings.
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Dissent would delay healthcare coverage
Alcresta Therapeutics and Jonathan Richard Flath v. Azar
Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas would not require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take action to facilitate insurance coverage for a unique feeding device crucial for individuals suffering from cystic fibrosis.
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Harmed immigrant
Camacho v. Whitaker
Trump Eighth Circuit Judge Ralph Erickson subjects a lawful permanent resident to deportation even though the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) improperly found as a fact that one of his alleged victims attempted suicide following� the offense.
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Religious advocacy ads on public transit
Archdiocese of Washington v. WMATA
Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas would allow a special exception for religious advocacy ads from the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) policy that limits its ad space on buses and trains to commercial ads and bans political, religious, advocacy, or other issue-oriented ads.
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Limit payment by insurance
Tamarin Lindenberg v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company
Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Joan Larsen wrote a dissent that "if it became law" would make it extremely difficult for a fired whistleblower to ever make their case to a jury of their peers.
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