President Trump has announced his first judicial nominee of his second term and she fought in court to defend an abortion ban that saves babies.
Trump announced late Thursday night that he would nominate Whitney Hermandorfer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. She is his first federal judicial nomination since returning to the White House in January.
Hermandorfer heads up a litigation unit for the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office. In that role, she has led major cases involving constitutional law – including defending the state’s abortion ban in court from a challenge from the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
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As LifeNews reported last April, Hermandorfer countere arguments from the abortion giant, which said that it shouldn’t face any limits on abortions or oversight from the state when it comes to killing babies. Hermandorfer said that’s not how that works.
The Tennessee Attorney General’s office argued in front of a three judge panel and asked the judges to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the ban by abortion activists seeking to weaken it.
“Plaintiffs very much, and this is a shared policy view by many in the medical profession, do not want any sort of governmental scrutiny on their use, on their medical decision-making,” Hermandorfer explained. “And that’s not been how things have worked in the abortion context.”
Those behind the lawsuit wanted to be able to kill babies in abortions just because they’re disabled.
Trump praised his judicial nominee, saying she would uphold the rule of law.
“Whitney has been serving the Great People of Tennessee, in the Attorney General’s Office, where she has strongly litigated in Court to protect Citizens from Federal Government Overreach,” Trump wrote on Truth Social,” praising her accolades and prior clerkships with prominent originalist justices.
Trump noted Hermandorfer previously clerked for Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett, as well as then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit and U.S. District Judge Richard Leon.
“She has a long history of working for Judges and Justices who respect the RULE OF LAW, and protect our Constitution,” said the president.