[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 120 (Monday, July 14, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4325]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 NOMINATION OF WHITNEY D. HERMANDORFER

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on judicial confirmation, the first judge 
confirmation, later today, Senate Republicans will confirm Donald 
Trump's first judicial nominee of his second term, Whitney 
Hermandorfer, to be a circuit judge on the Sixth Circuit.
  We all know when it comes to judges Donald Trump cares only about one 
thing: total unyielding fealty to Donald Trump--not experience, not 
judicial independence, not knowledge or desire to pursue the law, but 
brazen, uncomplicated fealty to Donald Trump. That is how he chooses 
judges. That is how the people under him choose judges.
  We have never seen this in America. You could have been a 
conservative like Ronald Reagan, someone like George Bush or H.W. Bush 
or Clinton or Obama. They all looked. You know, they wanted someone to 
have some philosophical kinship with them. But they said: Will they 
follow the law? Do they know this law?
  Not this administration. It is so different than all the others in a 
very bad way. Donald Trump doesn't care about the law or what the 
Constitution says. He says that himself. He only wants his foot 
soldiers in black robes defending him when he tries to do whatever he 
wants.
  Ms. Hermandorfer has failed to show that she can be an independent 
jurist committed to upholding the law. She has less than 10 years of 
legal experience. She has never served as the sole or chief counsel on 
a single case. She has made a career out of going after people's 
reproductive rights, transgender rights, and antidiscrimination 
policies.
  When nominees like Ms. Hermandorfer are the standard, our courts are 
weakened; the judiciary runs amok; the American people are worse off.
  I strongly--strongly--oppose her nomination.

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