1. Steven James Menashi was born on January 15,1979 and is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2019.
19 Facts About Steven Menashi
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Steven Menashi's grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Iraq and Ukraine; his maternal grandfather's relatives were murdered in the Holocaust.
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Steven Menashi worked at the Hoover Institution from 2001 to 2004, and concurrently studied at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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Steven Menashi then attended Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review.
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Steven Menashi graduated in 2008 with a Juris Doctor and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.
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Steven Menashi then clerked for Justice Samuel Alito of the US Supreme Court from 2010 to 2011.
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From 2016 to 2017, Steven Menashi was an assistant professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, where he focused on administrative law and civil procedure.
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In 2017, Steven Menashi took a leave of absence from George Mason to become the Deputy General Counsel for Postsecondary Service at the United States Department of Education and served as General Counsel on an acting basis for that department as of May 24.
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At the Department of Education, Steven Menashi helped devise a plan by the Department of Education to deny debt relief for thousands of students who were cheated by for-profit colleges.
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In September 2018, Steven Menashi moved to the White House to become a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President.
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On September 11,2019, a heated hearing on Steven Menashi's nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Steven Menashi was questioned about an article he had written in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law on ethnonationalism and Israel, in which he argued that Israel's Jewish identity was consistent with its status as a liberal democracy.
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Steven Menashi received his judicial commission on the same day.
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Steven Menashi filled the seat vacated by Dennis Jacobs, who assumed senior status on May 31,2019.
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Steven Menashi wrote that the prosecution, which had been initiated by a judge, violated the separation of powers put forth by the United States Constitution.
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Steven Menashi opined that the indictment alleged an explicit quid pro quo.
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Steven Menashi has ruled in favor of Donald Trump in several cases.
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Steven Menashi has taken a broad view of First Amendment protections.
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Steven Menashi has issued a number of opinions interpreting Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.