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August 8, 2019 1:51 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Judge Tries to Severely Limit Lawsuits On Bad Prison Practices: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. In a dissent from the July decision in Taylor v. Grubbs, Trump 4th Circuit Judge Julius Richardson claimed that…
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News and Analysis
August 8, 2019 1:32 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Circuit Judges Try to Approve State Law Targeting People Who Are Homeless: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump 4th Circuit Judges Marvin Quattlebaum and Julius Richardson joined a harsh July dissent in Manning v. Caldwell where…
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News and Analysis
August 8, 2019 11:55 am | By Elliot MincbergTrump Judges Put Domestic Gag Rule in Effect in Baltimore: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Two 4th Circuit Trump judges, Julius Richardson and Allison Rushing, ruled in July that, despite a district court’s preliminary…
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News and Analysis
August 7, 2019 5:13 pm | By Paul GordonNinth Circuit Trump Judge Ryan Nelson Would Have Denied Rwandan’s Request for Asylum: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. After the Rwandan genocide, Samuel Ishimwe came to America seeking asylum and relief under the Convention Against Torture treaty. In…
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Op-Ed
August 7, 2019 3:57 pm | By Bettina RamonWhite Supremacist Terrorism and the History of Anti-Latino Racism in Texas
This post originally appeared on Medium. Before he opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas on August 3 and killed 22 people in a hate-fueled massacre, the gunman posted a screed online that reportedly stated his motive: “This…
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News and Analysis
August 3, 2019 5:56 pm | By Paul GordonTrump Judge Eric Miller Would Have Denied Asylum Based On an Incomplete Record
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. In the July 2019 case of Xingli v. Barr, a Ninth Circuit panel remanded a denial of asylum by…
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News and Analysis
August 1, 2019 4:02 pm | By Paul GordonLindsey Graham Opens a New Frontier of Lawlessness
With the complicity of his fellow Republicans, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham led the nation to a new frontier of lawlessness this morning, taking a major step in the dismantling of our democracy and the rule of law. Despite…
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News and Analysis
August 1, 2019 2:49 pm | By Samantha Szuhaj, Surya SwaroopSenate Hearing on Children at the Border: “An Appalling Disregard for Human Dignity”
On July 23, the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee held a hearing about the Trump administration’s cruel treatment of immigrant children and families on our southern border. President Obama established the Family Case Management Program (FCMP) in 2014 to…
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News and Analysis
July 31, 2019 6:32 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Circuit Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Excuse Police Shooting of 10-Year-Old Child: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump 11th Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch cast the deciding vote in the July decision in Corbitt v. Vickers to reverse a…
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News and Analysis
July 31, 2019 5:52 pm | By Paul GordonTrump Judge Allison Eid Omits Key Facts to Rule for Corporation in Mine Safety Case: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
In July, Tenth Circuit judge Allison Eid cast the deciding vote and authored the opinion in a 2-1 panel ruling that overturned a citation for unapproved safety equipment at a Colorado coal mine. Peabody Twentymile Mining v. Secretary of Labor…
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News and Analysis
July 31, 2019 5:46 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Circuit Judges Vote to Keep Domestic Gag Rule in Effect: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Two Trump 9th Circuit judges, Eric Miller and Kenneth Lee, cast key votes in a 7-4 July decision that keeps…
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News and Analysis
July 31, 2019 4:18 pm | By Surya SwaroopTrump’s Anti-Environment, Pro-Big Business Judges
Despite the urgent threat that climate change poses for people in the U.S. and around the world, Trump continues to nominate judges with appalling records on environmental issues, including rulings that put big business profits before people and that limit…
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News and Analysis
July 30, 2019 4:45 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Circuit Judges Reaffirm Decision Undermining Fair Housing Act: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. All five Trump judges on the 5th Circuit judges – Judges James Ho, Don Willett, Kyle Duncan, Kurt Engelhardt, and…
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People For in Action
July 30, 2019 3:23 pm | By Tori SlattonDemocracy For All Amendment Reintroduced by Senators Udall and Shaheen
The Supreme Court’s damaging 2010 ruling in Citizens United enabled corporations and wealthy donors to spend unlimited amounts of undisclosed money to influence elections. Since then, outside election spending has skyrocketed, with nearly $1.1 billion spent on the 2018 midterm…
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People For in Action
July 29, 2019 5:00 pm | By Bettina Ramon#VoteTheCourts2020: Elizabeth Warren Promises to Nominate “Fair-Minded Constitutionalist Judges”
When the 2020 presidential primary began to take shape, PFAW began urging presidential primary candidates to highlight the importance of fair-minded constitutionalists serving on our federal courts. Especially as Trump’s narrow-minded, elitist judicial nominees are being confirmed at breakneck pace—and…
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People For in Action
July 29, 2019 4:06 pm | By Marge BakerVote No on Judicial Nominees Who Refuse to Affirm Brown v. Board
Senators are expected to vote the week of July 29 on 11 more Trump judicial nominees who have refused to affirm that the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided—a core belief that is indispensable…
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People For in Action
July 29, 2019 3:42 pm | By Marge BakerJudicial Nominee Stephanie Haines’ Testimony Suggests Anti-Trans Bias
On March 5, President Trump nominated Stephanie Haines to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The Senate Judiciary Committee held Haines' hearing on April 10 and reported her to the full Senate on May 9.…
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News and Analysis
July 29, 2019 11:37 am | By Elliot MincbergTrump Justices Cast Key Votes to Allow Construction on Border Wall: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. On July 26, in an unsigned order in Trump v. Sierra Club, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow…
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Federal Update
July 26, 2019 5:50 pm | By Elliot MincbergHouse Judiciary Committee Lawsuit Confirms that Committee Has Undertaken Impeachment Inquiry
According to news reports and the filing itself, just two days after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony, the House Judiciary Committee (HJC) has filed on July 26 a lawsuit in which it states that "articles of impeachment are…
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News and Analysis
July 26, 2019 5:36 pm | By Paul GordonJudge Who Blocked Trump’s Asylum Case Shows Why the Courts Are So Important
When a lawless president, aided by his lawless cabinet, abuses his power to target a group in flagrant violation of the law, what is to stop him? It is our judicial system, as federal district judge Jon Tigar reminded us…