United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Byrne’s record demonstrates his professional and personal commitment to undermining reproductive freedom.

As a visiting judge to the Ohio Supreme Court in 2023, Byrne was the only judge on a seven-judge panel who objected to dismissing a case defending Ohio’s ban on abortion before most people know they are pregnant. The decision to dismiss the case followed the majority of Ohio voters’ decision to pass a ballot measure to protect the right to abortion in the state’s constitution.

His anti-abortion views extend beyond his professional record. During his time as a college student, Byrne published his anti-reproductive freedom views in a local newspaper, falsely alleging inflammatory remarks about Reproductive Freedom for All (previously NARAL-Pro Choice America).

He also has several longstanding affiliations with anti-reproductive freedom organizations, including Ohio Right to Life, Cincinnati Right to Life, Warren County Right to Life, the Center for Christian Virtue, and the Federalist Society. He also served as an advisory board member of an anti-abortion center in Ohio.

United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Colmenero has spent most of her legal career advancing extreme policies alongside several politicians leading Texas’s anti-abortion efforts, including Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton.

In 2023, as the interim Attorney General of Texas, Colmenero led the state’s defense of Texas’s three abortion bans that went into effect following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

She’s also a member of the Federalist Society, and has defended some of Texas’s most aggressive voting and redistricting measures against claims that they discriminated against Black and Hispanic voters.

United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

As a judge for the District of Colorado, Domenico blocked a state law meant to prohibit spreading dangerous anti-abortion disinformation to patients.

The law sought to protect patients by prohibiting so-called “abortion reversal,” an unproven protocol that is not based in science and does not meet clinical standards.

Domenico instead ruled in favor of a religiously affiliated health clinic, failing to protect patients’ access to science-based healthcare and permitting the spread of anti-abortion disinformation.

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Reproductive Freedom for All strongly opposes his nomination due to his extensive record of hostility toward reproductive freedom. 

Flowers also has a record of attacking other fundamental rights, including LGBTQ+ equality, voting rights, immigrant rights, and more.

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Reproductive Freedom for All opposes his nomination due to his record of hostility toward reproductive freedom, voting rights, and other fundamental rights. 

As the Chief Deputy Solicitor General of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Hendershot has repeatedly led and supported efforts to undermine abortion access. Hendershot also has a record of attacking other fundamental rights, including LGBTQ+ equality, and gender justice.

United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas

In private practice following her clerkship with staunch anti-abortion Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Mitchell helped lead Alabama’s defense of its effort to strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding.

She also has longstanding affiliations with anti-reproductive freedom organizations, including the Independent Women’s Forum, the Federalist Society, and the Teneo Network.

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Reproductive Freedom for All strongly opposes his nomination due to his extensive record of hostility toward reproductive freedom. 

In his recent private practice work, Schwartz has been heavily entangled in highly politicized litigation representing President Trump and members of his family.

United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

As a judge for the District of North Dakota, Traynor ruled to undermine workplace protections for people who have abortions or undergo vitro fertilization (IVF) care.

In the same case, he also blocked enforcement of federal harassment guidance to protect transgender workers.

Traynor is also a member of the Federalist Society, a talent and influence pipeline for the conservative movement to cultivate young lawyers and then pack the courts with judges who will execute their unpopular agenda—including efforts to undermine reproductive freedom.

United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Bragdon has a record of opposing reproductive freedom and Reproductive Freedom.

He authored a blog titled “DAVID BRAGDON’S RADICAL Conservative, Republican, Libertarian Home Page,” where he opined on a number of political issues and fundamental rights—including abortion.  On this page he argued that “abortion is wrong” and blamed abortion on a “woman’s poor judgement.”

Bragdon refused to disavow these extreme and stigmatizing statements in his questions for the record.

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United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

As a judge on Mississippi’s Supreme Court, Chamberlin concurred in a decision that pushed so-called “fetal personhood” ideology.

During his time as a Mississippi State Senator from 2000-2004, Chamberlain supported bills that advanced dangerous so-called “fetal personhood” ideology, enabled health care providers to refuse to provide abortion-related health care procedures, and tried to provide additional funding to anti-abortion groups via stigmatizing state license plate tags.

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Crain touted his staunch anti-abortion ideology throughout his campaign for a seat on the Louisiana Supreme Court.

While all of the candidates in the race were self-proclaimed conservative Republicans, Crain ran advertisements specifically listing his first attribute for why he should be elected as being “pro-life.”

Once he was elected to the court, Crain dissented in a decision regarding a Louisiana anti-abortion law that extremists wanted to take effect immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

He argued that Louisiana’s so-called “trigger law” should be able to take effect immediately, thus preventing people from being able to access abortion care in the state while litigation continued.

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United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

Davis has a record of undermining fair elections and preventing Americans from exercising their constitutional right to vote, including through defending racial gerrymandering at the Texas Attorney General’s office and representing Fox news in a defamation case brought by Dominion Voting Systems related to pushing Trump’s unfounded claims that Biden stole the 2020 election.

United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri

Joshua Divine has led legal efforts to restrict medication abortion and challenged voter-approved reproductive rights protections in Missouri.

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United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri

Dunlap has testified in support of legislation that would have restricted young people’s access to abortion care and incorporated ideological language that could lead to criminalizing people who seek abortion care. He has ties to Alliance Defending Freedom, anti-abortion legal organization that helped orchestrate the fall of Roe v. Wade.

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United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Guard has led litigation to undermine abortion access and reproductive freedom during his tenure at the Florida Attorney General’s office and fought to undermine Floridians’ efforts to enshrine the right to abortion in the state’s constitution.

As acting Attorney General, Guard led an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of Florida in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case that devastated Planned Parenthood patients on Medicaid.

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Hermandorfer served as lead counsel in a case defending Tennessee’s total abortion ban and she challenged HHS’s rule requiring providers who receive federal Title X funding to give patients information about where to get an abortion if requested by the patient.

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United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Throughout his time in the Alabama Solicitor General’s office, LaCour led extreme attacks against abortion access, including defending the state’s total abortion ban and its attempt to ban abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He also testified before Congress in support of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket decision to allow Texas’s SB8 law to go into effect and led an amicus brief on behalf of 20 anti-abortion states in a case challenging a South Carolina law that banned abortion before most people know they are pregnant.

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United States Eastern District of Missouri

Lanahan supported Missouri’s effort to intervene in Missouri v. FDA (formerly AHM v. FDA) and spread outrageous disinformation about mifepristone, defended Missouri’s proposed legislation to prevent any Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, challenged Missouri’s Reproductive Freedom Ballot Initiative, and is a member of the ultra-conservative Teneo Network, chaired by anti-abortion advocate Leonard Leo.

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United States District Court for the District of Montana

In her short legal career, Lane has built a record opposing reproductive freedom and has worked to undermine the right to vote.

During her stint at the Montana Attorney General’s office, Lane defended a number of cruel and unnecessary abortion laws aimed at restricting abortion access in the state. She then went on to attack abortion access while in private practice when she unsuccessfully supported efforts to institute a total abortion ban in Guam.

Her overall lack of legal experience—including the fact that she’s less than eight years into her legal career and has never tried a case as lead counsel—led the American Bar Association to rate her as “not qualified” for a federal judgeship.

Lane also has a record of attacking fundamental rights beyond reproductive freedom, including voting rights, LGBTQ+ equality, racial justice, and immigrants’ rights.

United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Lea represented a for-profit business in challenging the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive-coverage benefit, arguing that employers should be allowed to force their individual religious beliefs upon their employees by denying them insurance coverage for contraception.

He also signed a letter in support of a staunch anti-reproductive freedom judicial nominee, Joshua Divine (then-nominee to the Eastern and Western District of Missouri).

United States District Court for the District of Kansas

Mattivi has been an ardent supporter of anti-abortion efforts in Kansas. During his unsuccessful campaign for Kansas Attorney General in 2022, Mattivi pledged to personally defend a constitutional amendment that would have eliminated the right to abortion under the Kansas Constitution. Kansas voters later overwhelmingly rejected the amendment and the Kansas Supreme Court reaffirmed that the state’s constitution protects the right to abortion.

Mattivi also has a record of attacking other fundamental rights, including immigrant rights.

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Mascott built her career trying to weaponize extreme academic ideology to undermine fundamental rights—including reproductive freedom.

• While serving as Senior Counsel to the President in the White House Counsel’s Office, Mascott supported efforts to rescind access to medication abortion nationwide and against a state’s efforts to protect pregnant people’s ability to receive qualified care free from deceptive practices and disinformation.
• She also testified before Congress in support of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket decision to allow Texas’s extreme SB8 law to go into effect and volunteered as a board member for an anti-abortion health center.
• In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule the federal constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs, Mascott made a number of television appearances where she lauded the decision.

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United States District Court for the District of Montana

As a member of the Montana House of Representatives, Mercer has an extensive record of supporting bills that undermine reproductive freedom.

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Meredith defended Kentucky’s ban on mifepristone, a common, safe, and medically-proven effective medication used in the most common method of abortion care.

He also defended two challenges to Kentucky’s targeted restrictions of abortion providers (TRAP) laws, and led numerous amicus briefs on behalf of Kentucky in support of bans and restrictions on abortion care.

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United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Justin Olson has built his legal career around advancing anti-transgender and anti-abortion causes.

He has led litigation seeking to exclude transgender students from athletics, promoted legal arguments supporting fetal personhood laws that threaten access to reproductive health care, and maintained close ties to far-right legal organizations including the Federalist Society and Alliance Defending Freedom.

United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Orso authored an opinion piece in the Catholic News Herald opposing the Health and Human Services regulations that instituted the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive-coverage benefit.

He used disinformation about contraception to argue that owners of for-profit businesses should be allowed to force their individual religious beliefs upon their employees by denying them insurance coverage for contraception.

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United States District Court for the District of Kansas

As the Solicitor General of Kansas, Powell helped lead various attacks on reproductive freedom, including attacking access to mifepristone, defending restrictive licensing regulations targeting abortion providers, being dismissive of Kansas voters’ decision to overwhelmingly reject a constitutional amendment to restrict abortion, and targeting reproductive rights organizations.

Later as a state judge, Powell joined a dissent that argued that the Kansas Constitution does not contain an independent state-law right to abortion.

United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida

At each step of his career, Pratt has sought out opportunities to undermine access to abortion care, including from his position as a state court judge. As a state court judge, Pratt authored an opinion blocking a young person’s access to abortion through judicial bypass while maneuvering to end the availability of judicial bypass altogether throughout the state. He took the extraordinary step of inviting Florida’s Attorney General to weigh in on the constitutionality of the judicial bypass law, thus creating the conditions to further threaten young people’s access to abortion care.

Before serving as a state court judge, Pratt worked as Senior Counsel at First Liberty Institute, an anti-abortion advocacy group.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Justin Smith was nominated by President Trump to a lifetime appointment on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals because of his extensive record advancing extremist agendas at the expense of our fundamental rights—including reproductive freedom.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

St. John was the President & General Counsel of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute (HLLI), an organization that engages in strategic litigation that undermines a variety of fundamental freedoms—including reproductive freedom.

She is also a member of several organizations with anti-reproductive freedom agendas and has engaged in anti-LGBTQ+, anti-consumer, anti-immigrant, and anti-gender justice litigation. Reproductive Freedom for All joined 19 coalition partners in the attached letter opposing her nomination.