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Me.

(35,454 posts)
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 04:57 PM Sep 2019

Looks Like Steven Menashi Is On The Hot Seat Now

You know, their most recent disgusting nomination for a judicial seat

“Yet another person could suffer fallout as a result of President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal and subsequent impeachment inquiry: Steven Menashi, Trump’s nominee for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals — and a key White House legal aide.

On Friday, the Huffington Post reported that four Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee, including ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), sent Menashi a letter demanding that he clarify any knowledge he had about the call, and giving him until October 7 to respond.

“We write to inquire about your knowledge of or involvement with any of the events related to a telephone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, 2019, or a whistleblower complaint about that call and efforts to pressure Ukraine to interfere in the upcoming 2020 U.S. election,” said the letter….

Even some Republicans have expressed reservations about how extreme Menashi is, and were put off by how rudely he behaved in his confirmation hearings. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who sits on the Judiciary Committee, said, “I’m real doubtful” about supporting him, saying, “My thought is, look, if he’ll treat a United States senator the way he treated us, I wonder how he would treat the people.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/one-of-trumps-radical-judge-picks-just-got-thrown-into-the-ukraine-scandal/?fbclid=IwAR3Sr6sGp3Zm7jee6cMNJbXzHjnidyUps6Ro1ZMs_SFnhT19kYEP7EPWGn0

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Looks Like Steven Menashi Is On The Hot Seat Now (Original Post) Me. Sep 2019 OP
This Is Such Good News Me. Sep 2019 #1
Steven Menashi Made His Senate Confirmation Hearing Even Worse Than Expected spanone Sep 2019 #2
Now We Know Me. Sep 2019 #3
the worse of the worse....it's nobody's business what they're up to..... spanone Sep 2019 #4
It's Criminal If He Does Me. Sep 2019 #5
Mahalo, Me.. Cha Sep 2019 #6
Aloha Me. Sep 2019 #7
That would be brilliant.. Cha Sep 2019 #8
The domino effect. sheshe2 Sep 2019 #9
I'm Not Fooling Myself Me. Sep 2019 #10

spanone

(135,830 posts)
2. Steven Menashi Made His Senate Confirmation Hearing Even Worse Than Expected
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 05:23 PM
Sep 2019
WASHINGTON ― The Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing on Wednesday for Steven Menashi, one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees for a lifetime seat on a U.S. appeals court.

It didn’t go that well.

Neither of his home-state senators from New York supports his nomination, so Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced Menashi. And the nominee spent most of his time angering Republicans and Democrats by refusing to provide details about what he’s worked on in his current role as a White House legal adviser (yes, Trump nominated one of his own aides to be a federal judge).

As senators asked him which particular issues he has provided legal advice on ― immigration policies crafted by White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, for example ― Menashi repeatedly declined to say and cited confidentiality.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steven-menashi-senate-confirmation-hearing-protests-trump-judges_n_5d794e1be4b0a938a42d364b

Me.

(35,454 posts)
3. Now We Know
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 05:36 PM
Sep 2019

"refusing to provide details about what he’s worked on in his current role as a White House legal adviser"

spanone

(135,830 posts)
4. the worse of the worse....it's nobody's business what they're up to.....
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 06:10 PM
Sep 2019

good news is he's pissed off both sides....he may not survive a vote

Me.

(35,454 posts)
7. Aloha
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 06:48 PM
Sep 2019
Hoa...looks like they'll be falling one by one. I think it may take a little longer than we hope, but the signs are there. Boris J. and Netanyahu may be gone this time next week.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
10. I'm Not Fooling Myself
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 08:53 PM
Sep 2019

I don't think it will all be as easy and as fast as it seems from this week, but Pandora's box has been opened and many will be going down, caught in a web of his making.

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