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Floor Speech

Date: June 24, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today, the Senate will vote to confirm Michael Hendershot to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Mr. Hendershot's record reflects his partisanship. In the Ohio Attorney General's Office, he defended the State's laws restricting abortion access. He continued to defend the State even after Ohio voters enshrined reproductive rights in the Ohio Constitution in 2023.

He also represented Ohio officials against challenges to the State's gerrymandered State legislative and congressional maps as they were struck down five times by the Ohio Supreme Court for violating the Ohio Constitution.

Finally, Mr. Hendershot is yet another Trump judicial nominee who is an election denier. In November 2020, he joined an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Court to grant cert and reverse the underlying decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that allowed for the counting of absentee ballots received after election day.

I oppose Mr. Hendershot's nomination and ask my colleagues to join me.

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