Hi there. LOL!
Posted on 09/12/2019 7:10:39 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
WH lawyer Steven Menashi has been subject of attack campaign Protesters disrupted a Senate hearing on Trump judicial nominee Steven Menashi on Wednesday.
Menashi, a former White House attorney and law professor, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee after Trump nominated him to the New York-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
The American Bar Association testified to his fitness for the job, awarding Menashi a rating of "well qualified," but his qualifications have been challenged by a sustained attack campaign from liberal groups in recent weeks. Protesters gathered outside the hearing and chanted as Menashi told the committee about the persecution his Jewish family faced in Iraq and Iran.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the incident highlighted the "unrestrained vitriol" Menashi has faced since he was nominated.
"Throughout Menashi's confirmation process, far-left activists have relentlessly harassed and demeaned him," McConnell's office said in an email. "Given that this nominee is just now having his confirmation hearing, you can expect the unrestrained vitriol from the left to only increase as his markup and floor debate approaches." Critics have centered their attacks on his record with the Trump administration. Menashi, 40, serves as an associate White House counsel and special assistant to the president. In that role, he has helped shape the Trump administration's immigration policy.
Major media figures have targeted Menashi in recent weeks. MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow attacked Menashi for a 2010 law review article he wrote titled "Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy," accusing him of a making a "high-brow argument for racial purity." What Maddow omitted, and was subsequently criticized for, was that Menashi was writing specifically about the state of Israel, not about the United States or another multi-ethnic society.
Menashi told the committee about how his family's story—Iraqi Jews forced by religious persecution to flee their homes—inspired his love of the American legal system. "Because of my family's experience, this country's commitment to rule of law, to equal justice to each individual regardless of background, and to a fair and impartial judiciary, has special meaning to me," Menashi said.
During the hearing, Menashi faced a standard battery of questions about his record and views. He attracted frustration from both sides of the aisle—including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), chairman of the committee—for declining to speak in any detail about his service as White House counsel or counsel in the Department of Education, citing his obligations under attorney-client privilege.
Menashi also went out of his way to say that Brown v. Board of Education was rightly decided—a now-standard practice among Trump nominees. He demurred on the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade, citing the standard practice of judicial nominees not to comment on settled law, but committed to upholding the precedent so long as it stands. Carrie Severino, chief counsel of the Judicial Crisis Network and a conservative judicial expert, said there is little doubt about Menashi's merit for the position.
"His service as a clerk at both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, as well as his current public service in the White House Counsel’s office, demonstrate his impeccable credentials to serve on the court," she said. "Despite facing the usual Democratic smears, Menashi will be confirmed and the people will have another outstanding judge on the court, who will fairly apply the law and adhere to the Constitution."
In spite of how hotly contested Menashi's nomination has been, a number of committee members skipped the hearing, including 2020 contenders Sens. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), as well as former presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.).
The stealth Civil War continues.
The sounds of Cannon Fire replaced by the incessant gnashing of teeth by an out of control Liberal Progressive Cabal.
When all else fails and total annihilation is near, attack on all fronts.
Even if you have to use phantom troops. Make enough noise, and the confrontation might even carry the day.
Or not. This assault was not entirely unexpected, but its ferocity is still astonishing. “Resist!” is still the battle cry.
The name of the game is “Flag Capture”.
Must be a good choice then.
Dems do this because it works. They just need a couple of “Republicans” to wilt and it’s game over.
DemocRATS against Good Judges who apply the law instead of legislating it.
We know what flak means.
They get escorted out of the room. Not arrested.
Hi there. LOL!
RAM him through Turtle!
Second Circuit Court of Appeals. That’s the one that covers NYC where a lot of the litigation involving PDJT’s tax returns and financial records is occurring. With Menashi on that court, little harm is likely to come to PDJT.
Judge Steven Menashi
Wonder if they have him so much because he wrote about Israel and\or The Court of Appeals, Second Circuit is particularly important for The left to “own”?
“The responsible press coverage so far of President Trump’s nomination of Steven Menashi to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has focused, understandably, on debunking the absurd, outrageous, and false claims that he is somehow a racist by virtue of having defended Israel in a 2010 law review article. For some fine examples, see the August 16 National Review article “Rachel Maddow’s Racial Smear of Second Circuit Nominee Steven Menashi,” the August 25 Wall Street Journal editorial “Smearing Steven Menashi,” and the September 4 New York Times column by Ross Douthat, “Four Things That Are Not White Nationalism.”
https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2019/09/judge-steven-menashi
With any luck, Menashi will remember this, and it will help inform his decisions.
The enemies of the Constitution are many and vicious.
I think anyone who violates basic decorum at these hearing should be forced to pay a hefty fine or spend time doing community service. They have a right to free speech, but not a right to disturb legitimate government process.
“Dems do this because it works.”
Really? Seems to me every Judge nominated has been approved and the Dems have opposed most of them.
I refer to getting flak when you are over the target. If the little leftist piggies are squealing this much it means he’s a good pick.
Sounds like he’ll need RINO VOTES to be confirmed.
Glad enough conservatives voted for their Senate RINOs in the past several November elections, rather than sitting out the election out of some misguided sense of ‘principle’ - because had those ‘principled’ voters succeeded, this nomination would have been DEAD IN THE WATER, due to Democrats running the Senate, rather than Republicans...
Really? Seems to me every Judge nominated has been approved and the Dems have opposed most of them.
Not every judge has been approved. Not even close.
Interestingly, Pelosi will fund more wall than Paul Ryan and the Senate RINOs ever did. With Republicans like that who needs Democrats?
Not even close?
Ok, how many were brought to the floor and how many were voted down or how many failed to get out of committee?
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