HuffPost: Trump’s First Judicial Pick Is… Someone Who Worked For His SCOTUS Picks
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This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on May 2, 2025.
Alliance For Justice described her record as “disturbing” and “extremist.”
In her work for the Tennessee attorney general, Hermandorfer led litigation from several states challenging Biden’s Title IX guidance that included protections for transgender students and their inclusion in school activities. Her efforts to roll back these protections is what Trump was referring to in his post when he called her “a staunch defender of Girls’ and Women’s Sports.”
“This is perhaps why Trump himself included a familiar and obvious anti-trans dog whistle in his announcement, expressing his expectation that she will uphold the discrimination his administration has already pushed through various executive orders,” Alliance for Justice said in a statement.
Keith Thirion, the group’s interim co-president, said in the statement that he hopes senators are prepared to stop “conservative crusaders like Whitney Hermandorfer who will be loyal to [Trump] and his discriminatory authoritarian agenda at the expense of all of us.”