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The Center for Reproductive Rights is previewing the Senate confirmation hearings for Trump nominees who pose a threat to reproductive rights. Research, legislative records, public statements, and more can be found at Repro Red Flags: Agency Watch [[link removed]] .

Confirmation Hearings This Week: 2/24 - 3/2

February 25: Office of Management & Budget Deputy Director - Dan Bishop* [[link removed]]
*Rescheduled from last week
In This Role He Could:
* Help make decisions about funding priorities, including funding fake abortion clinics designed to deter patients from having abortions.
* Fast track regulations that restrict abortion, including ones that make it easier for law enforcement to access the medical records of abortion patients and defund Title X health clinics.
* Assist OMB Director Russell Vought—who is avidly anti-abortion and a coauthor of Project 2025—in carrying out Trump's anti-abortion agenda.
Red Flags:
* He is a vocal opponent of abortion, explicitly stating that he thinks "it's wrong to have an abortion in the case of rape or incest."
* As a Member of Congress, Bishop recently cosponsored a national abortion ban and a bill that would enshrine fetal personhood into law, which could jeopardize access to abortion and IVF.
* As a North Carolina State Senator, Bishop authored discriminatory legislation restricting transgender individuals’ use of public restrooms.

February 26: Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights - Harmeet Dhillon [[link removed]]
In This Role She Could:
* Refuse to enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a law that protects abortion clinics and patients from violent protesters.
* Decide whether or how to enforce Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, a policy that protects patients against discrimination on the basis of sex—including what health insurance will cover and what care doctors will provide.
* Allow anyone who works in a hospital—including non-medical staff and CEOs—to prevent doctors from providing reproductive health care services and gender-affirming care based on their own personal religious beliefs.
* Refuse to investigate reports of medical, employment, and housing discrimination based on pregnancy status, abortion history, or LGBTQIA identity.
Red Flags:
* Dhillon has called herself a "lawyer for the pro-life movement" and personally represented an anti-abortion extremist whose actions incited violence and harassment of abortion providers and advocacy organizations.
* She claims that shield laws violate the Constitution. These laws protect abortion providers from prosecution for treating patients from other states.
* She and her law firm have been involved in many anti-abortion, anti-transgender, anti-immigration, and election-related lawsuits.

February 26: Solicitor General - Dean John Sauer [[link removed]]
In This Role He Could:
* Determine the United States’ position on federal lawsuits and side with anti-abortion extremists when they challenge existing policies on abortion pills and contraceptive access.
* Act as the lawyer for any federal agency—headed by President Trump's anti-abortion appointees—that attacks reproductive health care policies.
* Appeal decisions that block the Trump administration's anti-abortion policies, even escalating them to the Supreme Court.
Red Flags:
* Sauer urged the courts to roll back access to abortion pills in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA , which eventually made its way to the Supreme Court.
* He represented anti-abortion extremists whose actions incited violence and harassment of abortion providers and advocacy organizations.
* He filed multiple well-known anti-reproductive health care cases, including challenging the Title X rule and the city of St. Louis' reproductive equity fund.
* As Solicitor General of Missouri, he had a long history of defending abortion restrictions.

February 26: Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy - Aaron Reitz [[link removed]]
In This Role He Could:
* Recommend anti-abortion extremists for lifetime appointments as federal judges, including to the Supreme Court, and support them during the confirmation process.
* Advise the Attorney General—anti-abortion activist Pam Bondi—in attempting to restrict or even ban abortion nationwide, without the approval of Congress, by misusing the Comstock Act.
* Oversee internal DOJ policies and priorities, such as decisions about whether to enforce laws that protect abortion providers and patients.
Red Flags:
* Reitz calls himself "unequivocally pro-life" and believes that "human life starts at conception, no exceptions."
* He served as a fellow for an anti-abortion group that recently asked the Supreme Court to take abortion pills off the market. ADF is designated as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
* As Texas’ Deputy Attorney General for Legal Strategy, Reitz supported efforts to dismantle abortion access, including challenging access to medication abortion.

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