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Mr. HAGERTY. Mr. President, I am here today to urge my colleagues to support the confirmation of Whitney Hermandorfer. Whitney Hermandorfer is President Trump's nominee to be a judge on the Sixth Circuit.
This is a defining moment for the second Trump administration because Whitney is the first judicial nominee to be brought forward to serve at the circuit court level. She is the first Trump nominee to come before the U.S. Senate, and she is a perfect candidate to be that first nominee.
She is going to set the benchmark for excellence for all future judicial nominees. Indeed, I don't think President Trump could have made a better choice.
Ms. Hermandorfer is eminently qualified. She graduated first in her law school class. Then she clerked on the district court for DC, the DC Circuit, and, not once but twice, at the Supreme Court of the United States.
Whitney served as lead strategist and advocate for our home State of Tennessee, representing the Volunteer State in its most complex and important cases, and, unsurprisingly to everybody that knew her and knows her, she did an exceptional job.
Ms. Hermandorfer has the experience and the demeanor that our very best judges possess, along with a genuine humility, kindness, and a sense of optimism that I think everybody will appreciate.
Most important, Ms. Hermandorfer will faithfully discharge the solemn duties of a judge. She will interpret the Constitution according to its original meaning. She will administer justice without fear, without favor. She will rule without preference for the poor or the rich, the weak or the powerful. She will protect the precious rights recognized in the Constitution and safeguard the delicate separation of powers that our Founders established.
Whitney Hermandorfer is an outstanding nominee. Any delay in confirming her deprives our courts of the very best and the very brightest that our Nation can offer.
So I am here today to urge my colleagues to support her nomination on today's procedural vote, and I am going to encourage this body to quickly proceed to her confirmation.
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