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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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Encino Motorcars v. Navarro

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined his fellow conservatives in deciding that 100,000 service advisors who work for auto dealerships are not entitled to overtime pay under federal law.

 
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Dissent would uphold unfair trial

Schmidt v. Foster

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett would allow a trial judge to hold a closed session to question a man and order his lawyer not to participate.

 
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Rejecting claim of improper arbitration

Webb v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett dismisses a case against an arbitration board which improperly conducted the former employees' arbitration against the employer.

 
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Rejected prisoner litigation

Saunders v. Sheriff of Brevard County

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom votes to dismiss a lawsuit by a person in jail awaiting trial alleging that he had been subjected to unconstitutional and inhumane conditions of confinement, including grossly unsanitary conditions.

 
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Harmed immigrant

U.S. v. Fuentes-Canales

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett votes to allow a prison sentence of more than four years to Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales, who was convicted of re-entering the United States illegally even though the lower court had committed "plain error" in handing down the sentence.

 
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Municipal campaign contributions limit

Zimmerman v. Austin

Trump Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho argues that municipal campaign contributions limit is unconstitutional and expresses extreme view on money in politics.

 
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Age discrimination

Alberty v. Columbus Twp.

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush votes to uphold the dismissal of a claim by a 76-year-old Michigan woman who contends that she was fired in violation of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

 
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Cruelty in executions

Bucklew v. Precythe

Trump Eighth Circuit Judges Grasz, Stras, and Erickson rule against an individual who a circuit panel decided had failed to prove an alternative way for the state to execute him without unconstitutional pain.

 
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Hurt immigrants' futures

U.S. v. Hatem Ataya

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush would have harmed a legal immigrant when the authorities failed to warn him that he might face denaturalization as a result of his conviction.

 
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Detention of immigrants

Jennings v. Rodriguez

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the extreme right-wing justices in allowing even people in the U.S. legally who are being held for possible deportation to be locked up indefinitely.

 
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Prisoner damages

Murphy v. Smith

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion that effectively limited the amount of damages that can be recovered when prison officials severely abuse or injure prisoners.

 
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Allowed broad police search of home computer

Peffer v. Stephens

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush allows police to search a person's entire house if the home computer may have been used in commission of a crime, which has been criticized as an "astonishingly broad"� decision that guts the right to privacy.

 
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Allowed car repossession

Title Max v. Northington

Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom votes to allow a multi-state lending corporation to repossess a car belonging to an individual who had declared bankruptcy, rather than sharing its value with other creditors.

 
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Upholding segregation

U.S. EEOC v. AutoZone, Inc.

Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett refuses to rehear a three-judge panel decision about a workplace racial segregation case.

 
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Prayer at public board meeting

Bormuth v. County of Jackson

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar votes to allow public officials to lead and direct the public to join them in exclusively Christian prayer at public Board of Commissioners meetings.

 
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Ineffective assistance of counsel

Davila v. Davis

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was the deciding vote in a ruling that when a state prisoner fails in a state post-conviction proceeding to challenge the ineffectiveness of the lawyer who handled his direct appeal, he cannot raise that claim in federal court even if the failure was caused by ineffective assistance of his post-conviction lawyer.

 
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Cruelty in executions

Fears v. Morgan

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar votes to allow Ohio to resume executing prisoners via a three-drug cocktail that one witness described as causing serious and "unconstitutional pain and suffering."

 
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Undermined investors

California Public Employees' Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc.

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch cast the deciding vote that limited the time that investors have to decide whether to join class actions in securities cases.

 
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Cruelty in executions

McGhee v. Hutchinson

Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the other narrow-minded elitist justices denying several Arkansas prisoners' request to a stay of execution by a method likely to cause excruciating pain.

 
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Trump dismantling of AID

Does 1-20 v Musk

Judge Marvin Quattlebaum, nominated by Donald Trump to the federal court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit, issued a decision staying a preliminary injunction by a district court that had stopped Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from dismantling the US Agency for International Development (AID).

 
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