Senate ready to rubber stamp the worst Trump lifetime judicial appointee yet
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Campaign Action Moscow Mitch McConnell has scheduled a floor vote this week on possibly the worst yet of Donald Trump's judicial nominees, a very high bar. It's testament to just how in the bag for Trump the entirety of the Republican Senate is. Steven MenasSenate ready to rubber stamp the worst Trump lifetime judicial appointee yet
Campaign Action Moscow Mitch McConnell has scheduled a floor vote this week on possibly the worst yet of Donald Trump's judicial nominees, a very high bar. It's testament to just how in the bag for Trump the entirety of the Republican Senate is. Steven Menashi, the nominee to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, is a Trump White House lawyer. He has worked with white supremacist adviser Stephen Miller on immigration policy—both the Muslim ban and the kidnapping and caging of migrant children. He also provided legal counsel to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in developing her policy to rollback protections for survivors of sexual assault on college campuses under Title IX. He also shaped the Education Department's plan to deny debt relief to students that were cheated by for-profit colleges, a plan a federal judge ruled against, saying it violated federal privacy laws. That's just the last few years of his work. His past writings are inflammatory, to say the least: «In past editorials, Menashi compared race data collection in college admissions to Germany under Adolf Hitler; denounced women's marches against sexual assault; opposed the “radical abortion rights codified in Roe v. Wade;” and claimed that a Dartmouth fraternity wasn't being racist when it held a “ghetto party attended by white students donning Afros and carrying toy guns.» Oh, and he was also probably aware of Trump's attempt to extort Ukrainian President Zelensky and the efforts to cover up the phone call. But that's not known for certain because he's refused to answer Democratic senators’ questions about what he knows because of his position in the White House counsel's office. Perhaps the House should be calling him as a witness in the impeachment hearings. He's so bad even Republicans defending him are reduced to saying things like «He's written some really weird stuff.» That's Senator and Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, who pushed him through committee. Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who was so irritated by Menashi's arrogance and refusal to answer questions in committee that he helped hold over a committee vote for several weeks, now just says «Some of his views are eclectic and some of them I don't agree with.» He's voting for him anyway. Let's make it the end of this iteration of the GOP. Please give $1 to our nominee fund to help Democrats end McConnell's career as majority leader! Read more