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Judicial nominee Steven Menashi has his confirmation hearing today. Menashi's history of far-right commentary and his previous work as a top lawyer in Betsy DeVos' Department of Education could set up a fight in Congress over the lifetime appointment: judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/09/11…
We obtained Menashi’s calendars from his tenure at the Education Department, which show he worked to advance conservative priorities on religion in education and Title IX: americanoversight.org/what-we-found-…
In November 2018, the Education Department proposed new rules that strengthen the rights of those acdused of sexual assault on college campus. Menashi’s calendars show 37 entries for meetings about Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting gender discrimination in education. 
According to CNN, Menashi wrote "dozens of editorials and blog posts in the late 1990s and early 2000s for a number of college and professional publications decrying 'leftist multiculturalism' and 'PC orthodoxy.'" cnn.com/2019/08/22/pol…
Menashi's calendars obtained by American Oversight show multiple meetings about religion and "academic freedom," including one with the socially conservative Alliance Defending Freedom: americanoversight.org/what-we-found-…
Menashi then worked in the White House counsel’s office, where he was reportedly part of Senior Adviser Stephen Miller’s working group on immigration, the team behind many of the administration’s harshest immigration policies.
