As President Trump’s first eleven new nominees for lifetime judicial posts approach their Senate hearings in this month, Trump’s previously confirmed nominees continue to do serious damage. This report details 21 decisions they have issued in the last two months upholding harmful actions by the Trump Administration, and also seriously damaging our civil, constitutional, and consumer rights. This is true even as other judges appointed by both parties have often handed down rulings against some of the Trump Administration’s most troubling misconduct on immigration, government spending, and other matters.
Each case is summarized below, along with a link to the full People For the American Way blog entry on the decision and to the ruling itself. Such rulings demonstrate the importance to all of us of nominating and confirming fair-minded federal judges and the dangers posed by Trump-nominated judges.
UPHOLDING TRUMP’S ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS AND ON DUE PROCESS
- Two Trump Justices Cast Deciding Votes to Approve Previous Immigrant Deportation to El Salvador Prison
- Trump Judge Allows Immigration Enforcement to Take Place in Churches
- Trump Judge is First to Explicitly Authorize Trump to Deport Venezuelan Immigrants Under Alien Enemies Act
- Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Deny Asylum to Beaten Immigrant
- Trump Judge Ho Joins Trump’s Attack on Judge Who Ordered Halt to Kidnappings
- ICE Transfers Detainees to Trump Judge Who Has Approved Deportations Under Alien Enemies Act
APPROVING TRUMP GOVERNMENT DEMOLITION
- Trump Justices Approve Cancellation of $65 Million in Teacher Grants
- Trump Justices Cast Deciding Votes to Allow Trump to Fire Independent Agency Board Members For Now
- Trump Judges Approve Trump Decimation of Voice of America
- Trump Judges Stop Order Keeping Radio Free Europe and Other Broadcasts Alive
- Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Strip Union Rights from Most Federal Workers
OTHER CIVIL, CONSTITUTIONAL, AND CONSUMER RIGHTS
- Trump Judge Limits Consumer Privacy Protection Law
- Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Severely Weaken Voting Rights Act
- Trump Judge Strikes Down Transgender Workplace Protections
- Trump Judges Weaken Americans with Disabilities Act
- Trump Judge Throws Out Federal Rule Requiring Employers to Accommodate Workers’ Abortion-Related Healthcare
- Trump Judges Rule that Public Library Bans Can’t Be Challenged in Court
- Trump Judges Affirm Dismissal of Sex Discrimination Claim Against Volleyball Coach
- Trump Judge Excuses Truck Company on Death of Passengers
- Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Immunize Official for Improperly Evicting Tenant
- Trump Judge Grants Immunity to Guards for Intentionally Subjecting Prisoner to Extreme Cold
