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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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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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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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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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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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