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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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Upheld unfair sentence

Beeman v. U.S.

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Newsom and Branch allow a longer sentence to stand even though it was based on an erroneous interpretation of statute.

 
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Employment discrimination

McClellan v. Midwest Machining

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar would allow corporations to more easily intimidate employees into giving up their Title VII rights.

 
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Exposed immigrant to risk of torture

Alvarenga-Flores v. Sessions

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett rejects request for protection from deportation under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) that was never even considered on the merits.

 
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Prevent securities fraud lawsuit

Alaska Electrical Pension Fund v. Asar

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho would be in favor of a company and its former CFO over a pension fund despite the company's admission of overstating its income by $87 million.

 
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Harmed immigrant

Burka v. Sessions

Trump Eighth Circuit Judge David Stras, based on a factual finding the agency never made, decided the court did not have jurisdiction to review an administrative decision to refuse to process an asylum application.

 
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Pretrial deletion approved

Moya v. Garcia

Trump Tenth Circuit Judges Eid and Carson III vote to deny rehearing of a claim that individuals were kept in jail for long periods without arraignment, in violation of state law and their due process rights.

 
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Would rule against gun violence measure

Mance v. Sessions

Trump Fifth Circuit Judges Ho, Willett, Duncan and Engelhardt would vote to reconsider states' gun safety laws under the Second Amendment.

 
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Denying attorney's fees in FOIA case

Morley v. CIA

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas denies statutory attorneys' fees to a person who had obtained documents from the CIA after years of litigation under the Freedom of Information Act.

 
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Let president fire independent agency heads

Collins v. Mnuchin

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett casts deciding vote to strike down a federal statute that provided that the president could fire the head of an independent federal housing finance agency, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), only for cause.

 
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Allowing employment discrimination

Bostock v. Clayton County Board of Commissioners

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judges Newsom and Branch ignore one of the Supreme Court's most important Title VII precedents and allow an employee to be discriminated against due to his sexual orientation.

 
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Discrimination against transgender students

Doe v. Boyertown Area School District

Trump Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas would interpret Title IX to simply permit rather than require schools not to discriminate against transgender students regarding use of locker room and bathroom facilities.

 
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Allow unfair sentence

U.S. v. Hanchett

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt would allow part of sentence requiring mental health assessment and possible treatment after release.

 
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Criticism of abortion

Whole Woman's Health v. Smith

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho criticizes abortion, goes after Roe v. Wade, and baselessly accuses a respected Republican senior district judge of anti-religious bias.

 
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Enabled voter discrimination

Abbott v. Perez

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined his fellow right-wing justices in upholding Texas Congressional and State House redistricting schemes that a three-judge lower court had unanimously found had been adopted with the intent to discriminate against people of color.

 
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Allowed prosecution despite prior acquittal

Currier v. Virginia

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion which essentially allows the state to prosecute someone for a crime even after that person was found not guilty.

 
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Weakened antitrust protections

Ohio v. American Express Co.

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was the deciding vote stating that American Express' "anti-steering provisions,"� which prohibit merchants from encouraging customers to use other credit cards that have lower fees, do not violate antitrust laws, even though they result in higher prices for consumers.

 
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Struck down union support

Janus v. AFSCME

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was the deciding vote to strike down requirements that public sector employees who are not members of the unions that are required by law to represent them pay "fair share" fees to cover the costs of that representation.

 
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Ended class actions for workers

Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and the hard-right majority on the Supreme Court stripped working people of a vitally important right that Congress specifically guaranteed in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA): the right to engage in concerted activities for mutual aid or protection (basically, class actions).

 
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Protected crisis pregnancy centers

NIFLA v. Becerra

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the other ultra-conservatives in striking down California's disclosure laws for fraudulent crisis pregnancy centers as unconstitutional compelled speech.

 
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Threw voters off the rolls

Husted v. A Philip Randolph Institute

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the majority in upholding Ohio's voter purge practice triggered by non-voting throwing more than a million voters off the voting rolls and perpetuated a practice that Justice Sotomayor argued in her dissent would further the disenfranchisement of people of color and low-income voters.

 
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Rejected prisoner's medical claim

Rhinehart v. Scutt

Trump Sixth Circuit Judges Bush and Thapar allow doctors to be indifferent to a prisoner's complaints of liver and related problems that caused severe pain and contributed to his death.

 
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Allow unfair sentence

U.S. v. Burris

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho would not allow a cure for an improperly long sentence.

 
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Trump Muslim immigration ban

Trump v. Hawaii

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and right-wing justices upheld Trump's Muslim immigration ban despite its discriminatory effect on Muslims.

 
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Ineffective assistance of counsel

U.S. v. Sitzmann

Trump D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas rejects claim of ineffective assistance of counsel despite explanation by dissent that majority's failure to send back to trial court for factual review is a clear "departure from the law of the circuit."

 
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Attempted restrictions of abortion

Planned Parenthood of Indiana v. Commissioner

Trump Seventh Circuit Judges Barrett and Brennan joined a dissent that argued a state should be able to restrict abortion when the reason for that choice is the fetus's gender, race, sex, national origin or disability (including life-threatening disabilities).

 
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