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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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Favoring insurers over injured consumer

McGranahan v Geico Indemnity Co

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Firing independent fed board members

Harris v Bessent

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Deportation under AEA to El Salvador

JGG v Trump

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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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Dissent would give police immunity

Tobias v. Arteaga

Trump judge Collins argues in dissent that police detectives should get qualified immunity from a lawsuit seeking to hold them accountable for forcing a false confession from a 13 year-old.

 
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Punished person who filmed police

Crocker v. Beatty

Trump judge Newsom upholds qualified immunity to prevent claim against police officer charged with improperly seizing cellphone being used to record police conduct and punishing the person doing the recording.

 
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Indian treaty rights

United States v. State of Washington

Trump judges Collins, Bennett, and Bress try in dissent to support Trump Administration effort to strike down state law that provided important help to former workers at a closed. federal nuclear facility

 
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COVID-era restrictions

Tandon v. Newsom

Trump Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett again cast deciding votes to grant dangerous special exemptions for religious purposes to important COVID-19 pandemic-related health measures.
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COVID risks for prisoners

Hill v. Whitmer

Trump judge Thapar casts deciding vote to affirm dismissal of prisoner's complaint that officials are being deliberately indifferent to the serious risk to him posed by COVID-19.

 
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Ruled against gun violence measure

State of Washington v. US Dept of State

Trump judge Nelson overturns injunction restricting harmful 3-D gun blueprints.

 
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Allowed unfairly long sentence

Jones v. Mississippi

Trump justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett cast deciding votes to gut contrary precedent and approve sentencing of 15 year-old to life imprisonment without the possibility for parole.

 
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Weakened the ADA

Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores Inc

Trump judge Branch writes opinion reversing district court and ruling that grocery store chain can legally discriminate against visually impaired people under the ADA by providing them with inferior services due to the inaccessibility of its website.

 
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Weakens implementation of the ACA

State of Texas v. Rettig

Trump judges Ho and Duncan try in dissent to revive dangerous nondelegation doctrine and invalidate important ACA implementation rule

 
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Limit interstate class actions

Lyngaas v. Curaden AG

Trump Sixth Circuit Judge Thapar tried in dissent to severely limit federal class actions helping consumers get redress for corporate misconduct.

 
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Transgender rights

Meriwether v. Hartop

Thapar and Larsen rule that public university professors have a free speech right to refuse to use transgender students' requested pronouns and honorifics

 
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Harmed immigrants' rights

Pereida v. Wilkinson

Trump Supreme Court justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh cast deciding votes to make it harder for long-time US residents who are undocumented immigrants to stop deportation.

 
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Allow unreasonable police stop

US v. Norbert

Trump judge Oldham tries in dissent to uphold police stop and seizure of black man with no reasonable suspicion based solely on anonymous tip.

 
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Ruled against gun violence measure

Gun Owners of America v. Garland

Trump judge Murphy casts deciding vote to reverse lower court and decide that ATF rule banning dangerous bump stocks is illegal.

 
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Would rule against gun violence measure

Aposhian v. Wilkinson

Trump judges Eid and Carson tried in dissent to argue that the full 10th Circuit should rule illegal the ATF rule banning dangerous bump stocks.

 
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Ruled against police violence victim

Torres v. Madrid

Gorsuch's dissent said that a wrongful police shooting wasn't an unconstitutional "seizure" because the victim survived and got away.

 
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Force arbitration

Cooper v. Ruane Cunniff & Goldfarb Inc

Trump judge Sullivan tried to force individual arbitration of claim that mismanagement of benefit fund caused losses of hundreds of millions of dollars to all employees of corporation

 
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Dismissed housing discrimination case

Francis v. Kings Park Manor Inc

Five Trump Second Circuit judges cast the deciding votes to require dismissal of fair housing complaint concerning racial harassment of black tenant and harm fair housing law.

 
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Equal pay case

Freyd v. University of Oregon

Trump judge Van Dyke tries to dismiss female professor's federal Equal Pay Act and hob discrimination claims against university for paying her less than her male colleagues.

 
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Dismissed claim on terrorism watchlist

Elhady v. Kable

Trump judges Quattlebaum and Richardson cast key votes to reverse district court and dismiss Muslim citizens' claim of harmful inclusion on terrorist watchlist without any meaningful opportunity to contest it.

 
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Rejected sex harassment claim

Howard v. Cook County Sherriff's Office

Trump judge St. Eve writes opinion reversing district court ruling that allowed female employees to bring class action challenging policies that led to hostile work environment for almost a thousand women working at large jail complex.

 
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Would rule against gun violence measure

Young v. State of Hawaii

Trump judge Nelson tries in dissent to invalidate state gun safety law limiting the open public carrying of firearms.

 
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Dissent would harm immigrants

East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Biden

Trump judges Bennett, Bumatay, Lee, Nelson, and Van Dyke argued in dissent that the court should reinstate a restrictive Trump rule severely limiting asylum for immigrants.

 
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Eviction moratorium during COVID

Tiger Lily LLC v. US Dept of HUD

Trump judges Thapar and Bush refuse to stay harmful order by Trump district judge in Tennessee against important CDC eviction moratorium

 
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Qualified immunity

LG v. Columbia Public Schools

Trump judge Stras supported reversing district court and dismissing, based on qualified immunity, complaint by female high school student that she was improperly seized by police-school official for police interrogation.

 
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