Whistleblower raises new questions for appeals court nominee
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee want to know whether one of President Donald Trump’s appeals court nominees played a role in any of the events surrounding his controversial call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Steven Menashi works in the White House counsel’s office and is up for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, based in New York. In a letter Friday, the ten Democratic senators demanded to know if he knew or was involved in the July 25 call now at the center of an impeachment inquiry in the House.
Among the questions the Democrats want Menashi to answer: Did he work or advise on whether the whistleblower complaint could be turned over to Congress, and was he involved in any conversations about how to handle the complaint?
And the Democrats also want to know whether Menashi was involved in the decision, according to the whistleblower, to “lock down” a record of the call on a computer system usually reserved for sensitive national security information.
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