WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - The first round of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees made their case to the U.S. Senate Wednesday about why they deserve lifetime appointments to the federal bench.

"With that power comes great responsibility," said Whitney Hermandorfer, the current director of the Tennessee attorney general's Strategic Litigation Unit.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee wanted to know how the candidates would judge certain cases, including how their records would impact reproductive rights.

"You defended the states near total ban on abortion," U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) told Hermandorfer.

"You have referred to yourself as a 'zealot' for the anti-choice movement," U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told Josh Divine, the current Missouri solicitor general.

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